Beetle song (Strassburger, set by (Engelbert Humperdinck)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Egon Hugo Strassburger (1877 - 1952)

Translation © by Malcolm Wren

Käferlied

Language: German (Deutsch)

Available translation(s): ENG

Fliege, kleiner Käfer, in den Tag hinein,
wecke auf die Schläfer, liebes Käferlein.
Hast ja Riesenflügel, niemand kommt dir gleich,
Täler, Berg und Hügel sind dein großes Reich.
Käfer, könnt ich eilen, eilen so wie du
flög ich tausend Meilen, flög ich immerzu.

Authorship

by Egon Hugo Strassburger (1877 - 1952) [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 Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921), "Käferlied", 1909-10, from Kinderlieder, no. 2. [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , title 1: "Beetle song", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-12
Line count: 6
Word count: 43

Beetle song

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Fly, little beetle, off into the daylight,
wake the sleeping people up, dear little beetle.
You have giant wings, noone has anything like them,
Valleys, mountains and hills are your large kingdom.
Beetle, if I could rush, I would rush like you,
I would fly a thousand miles, I would keep flying.

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Egon Hugo Strassburger (1877 - 1952)

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-12
Line count: 6
Word count: 52