The gemstone | Good king Magarone placed a fine gem

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by Hans Bötticher (1883 - 1934), as Joachim Ringelnatz

Translation © by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947)

Der Edelstein

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Der gute König Magarone
Trug einen Stein in seiner Krone.
Es war ein schöner Edelstein,
Er funkelte wie Sonnenschein.
Ein böser König kam aus Polen,
Um sich den Edelstein zu holen.
Sie stritten sich fast zehn Minuten,
Der böse König mit dem guten.
Dann kam ein fürchterlicher Krieg.
Der gute König kam zum Sieg.

Und schenkte -- weil er sich so freute --
Den Edelstein an arme Leute.

Text Authorship:

by Hans Bötticher (1883 - 1934), as Joachim Ringelnatz [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), "Der Edelstein", 2008 [medium voice and piano], from Kleine Wesen, no. 4 [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , "The gemstone", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2009-03-09
Line count: 12
Word count: 66

The gemstone

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Good king Magarone placed a fine gem
In middle of his regal diadem.
A rarest gemstone quite so fine,
It glistened like the sun's bright shine.
An evil king came out from Poland
To take that gemstone to his lowland.
They argued much for minutes ten,
As argumentative regal men.
Then there came an awful war
But Magarone won, and thereby swore
To charity the stone be given,
For his people had with him striven.

Text Authorship:

by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "The gemstone", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Hans Bötticher (1883 - 1934), as Joachim Ringelnatz
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-03-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 75