Jemand | Mein Herz ist betrübt -- ich sag' es nicht

by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)

Translation by Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard (1780 - 1858)

My heart is sair, I daurna tell

Language: Scottish (Scots)

My heart is sair, I daurna tell,
My heart is sair for somebody,
I could wake a winter's night, 
For the sake o' somebody,
Oh, hon!  for somebody!
I could range the world around
For the sake o' somebody.

Ye powers that smile on virtuous love,
Oh!  sweetly smile on somebody;
Frae ilka danger keep him free,
And send me safe my somebody.
Oh, hon!  for somebody!
I wad dae what wad I no'?
For the sake o' somebody.

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Text Authorship:

by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "My heart is sair" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Benjamin Burrows (1891 - 1966), "Somebody", 1927 [ voice and piano or string quartet ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard (1780 - 1858) , "Jemand" ; composed by Ignaz Moscheles, Robert Schumann.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810 - 1876) , no title, appears in Gedichte, in Robert Burns. Elf Lieder [later 13 Lieder], no. 7[9] ; composed by Otto Baehr, Sophie Wolf Baudissin, Gräfin, Heinrich Bellermann, Wenzel Theodor Bradsky, Ernst Frank, Robert Franz, Robert Fuchs, Gustav Hecht, Ferdinand von Hiller, Alexis Holländer, Adolf Jensen, Marie Charlotte Henriette von Kehler, Carl Lührss, Heinrich August Marschner, Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, Hugo Riemann, Heinrich von Sahr, Bernhard Ernst Scholz, Ernst Hermann Seyffardt, Ferdinand Sieber, Georg Vierling.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Heinrich Julius Heintze (1811 - 1860) , "Der Eine!" ; composed by Otto Tiehsen.
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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Otto Johann Anton Dütsch, as Оттон Иванович Дютш.
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Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Magnus Gustaf Retzius (1842 - 1919) , "För någon", written 1872 ; composed by Oscar Blom.
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Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Ludvig Norman.
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Word count: 79

Jemand

Language: German (Deutsch) after the Scottish (Scots)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE

   Mein Herz ist betrübt -- ich sag' es nicht --
Mein Herz ist betrübt um Jemand;
Ich könnte wachen die längste Nacht,
Und immer träumen von Jemand;
      O Wonne! von Jemand;
      O Himmel! von Jemand;
Durchstreifen könnt' ich die ganze Welt,
   Aus Liebe zu Jemand.
 
   Ihr Mächte, die ihr der Liebe hold,
O lächelt freundlich auf Jemand!
Beschirmet ihn, wo Gefahren drohn;
Gebt sicher Geleite dem Jemand!
      O Wonne! dem Jemand;
      O Himmel! dem Jemand;
Ich wollt' -- ich wollte -- was wollt' ich nicht
   Für meinen Jemand!

Confirmed with Robert Burns' Gedichte deutsch von W. Gerhard, Leipzig: Verlag von Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1840, page 217

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Christoph Leonhard Gerhard (1780 - 1858), "Jemand" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Scottish (Scots) by Robert Burns (1759 - 1796), "My heart is sair"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870), "Jemand", op. 119 (Sechs Gesänge für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 4, published 1851 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856), "Jemand", op. 25 no. 4 (1840), published 1840 [ voice and piano ], from Myrten, no. 4, Leipzig, Kistner [sung text checked 1 time]

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Research team for this page: Pilar Lirio , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 85