Ring of roses | Red rambling rose bush has torn my shirt

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by Elsa Bernstein (1866 - 1949), as Ernst Rosmer

Translation © by Malcolm Wren

Rosenringel

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Roter Ringelrosenbusch hat mein Hemd zerrissen,
weißes Schnabelgänslein hat mich in's Bein gebissen.
Der Busch darf nicht mehr Rosen tragen,
weißes Gänslein werd' ich schlagen,
roter Ringelrosenbusch, Husch, husch!

Text Authorship:

by Elsa Bernstein (1866 - 1949), as Ernst Rosmer, appears in Königskinder [author's text not yet checked 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 Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Rosenringel", 2011 [medium voice and piano], from Zwölf Kinder-lieder für Erwachsene, no. 1 [ sung text checked 1 time]
by Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921), "Rosenringel", 1895, from Vier Kinderlieder [ sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "Ring of roses", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "Rose ringlets", written 2011, copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-11
Line count: 5
Word count: 29

Ring of roses

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Red rambling rose bush has torn my shirt,
white little goose with the beak has bitten me on the leg.
The bush can no longer bear roses,
I am going to kill the white goose,
red rambling rose bush, shoo, shoo.

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2008 by Malcolm Wren, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Elsa Bernstein (1866 - 1949), as Ernst Rosmer, appears in Königskinder
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This text was added to the website: 2008-03-11
Line count: 5
Word count: 41