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Die Nacht war kalt und sternenklar, Da trieb im Meer bei Norderney Ein Suahelischnurrbarthaar. - Die nächste Schiffsuhr wies auf drei. Mir scheint da mancherlei nicht klar, Man fragt doch, wenn man Logik hat, Was sucht ein Suahelihaar Denn nachts um drei am Kattegatt?
Authorship
- by Hans Bötticher (1883 - 1934), as Joachim Ringelnatz [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Logik", 2009 [medium voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
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- ENG English (Gary Bachlund) , copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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The night was cold and starlit, In the sea near Norderney1 drifted A Swahili's moustache hair. - The next ship's bells would be three. Some things seem to me not clear, And so one asks, when one is being logical, How is it one seeks a Swahili's hair About three bells on the Kattegat2?
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Norderney: one of the seven East Frisian Islands off the North Sea coast of Germany; also, a municipality in the district of Aurich in Lower Saxony.
2 Kattegat: a sea area bounded by Jutland, Scania, Halland and Bohuslän.
Authorship
- by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hans Bötticher (1883 - 1934), as Joachim Ringelnatz
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-12-05
Line count: 8
Word count: 54