On father's lap | Hopp, little rider, off we go

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by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946)

Translation © by Malcolm Wren

Auf Vaters Knien

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Hopp, mein Reiter, immer zu,
Pferdchen kennt ja keine Ruh,
will nur immer weiter traben
lustig über Feld und Graben,
bald Galopp und bald im Trab --
bauz! da fällt der Reiter ab!

Confirmed with Ringelreihen: Kindergedichte von Albert Sergel, 11.-15. Tausend, Berlin, Leipzig, Wien & Bern: Franz Schneider Verlag, 1921, page 11.

Text Authorship:

by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Auf Vaters Knien", appears in Ringelreihen: Kindergedichte [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 Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921), "Auf Vaters Knien", 1909-10, from Kinderlieder, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Heinrich Kaspar Schmid (1874 - 1953), "Auf Vaters Knien", op. 15 no. 5, published 1907/8 [ voice and piano ], from Ringelreihen: 21 Kinderlieder von Albert Sergel, no. 5, München: Wunderhornverlag [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "On father's lap", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-12
Line count: 6
Word count: 32

On father's lap

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Hopp, little rider, off we go,
the horse gets no rest,
it is going to keep trotting
merrily over the fields and ditches,
now a gallop, now a trot,
whoops! the rider has fallen off!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Albert Sergel (1876 - 1946), "Auf Vaters Knien", appears in Ringelreihen: Kindergedichte
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This text was added to the website: 2008-03-12
Line count: 6
Word count: 35