Raindrops from the Trees | Raindrops from the trees

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by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Regentropfen aus den Bäumen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA SPA

Regentropfen aus den Bäumen
Fallen in das grüne Gras,
Tränen meiner trüben Augen
Machen mir die Wange naß.

[Wenn die Sonne wieder scheinet,]¹
Wird der Rasen doppelt grün:
Doppelt wird auf meinen Wangen
Mir die heiße Träne glühn.

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¹ In "Regenlied": "Scheint die Sonne wieder helle,..."

Text Authorship:

by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, first published 1854 [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 Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Nachklang", op. 59 (Acht Lieder und Gesänge) no. 4 (1873), published 1880 [ low voice and piano ], Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [sung text checked 1 time]
by Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), "Regenlied", WoO posth. 23, published 1908 [sung text checked 1 time]

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CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Raindrops from the Trees", copyright ©
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Chant de la pluie", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 39

Raindrops from the Trees

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Raindrops from the trees
Fall in the green grass,
Tears from my gloomy eyes
Make my cheeks wet.

When the sun again shines,
The grass will be twice as green:
And on my cheeks, twice as much 
will my hot tears glow.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Klaus Groth (1819 - 1899), appears in Hundert Blätter, Paralipomena zum Quickborn, first published 1854
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 42