[Und bild' dir nur im Traum nichts ein]1,
Du bist mir viel zu jung.
Ums Kinn noch kaum dir sprosst der Flaum,
Das ist mir nicht genung.

Und wenn ich einen heiraten tu',
Muß sein ein Reiter zu Roß,
Noch eins so lang und breit wie du,
Sein Bart zweier Ellen groß.

Sein Rappe saust im Windeslauf,
Sein Bart der deckt mich zu,
Ich sitz' vor ihm am Sattelknauf,
Und hinterm Ofen du!

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¹ Herzogenberg: "Und bild' dir nur nichts ein im Traum"; Woikowsky-Biedau: "Und bilde dir nichts ein" (according to the Musikalien-catalog von Heinrichshofen's Verlag in Magdeburg; further changes may exist not shown above)

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• by Paul Heyse (1830 - 1914), "Trutzliedchen" [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 Alexander von Fielitz (1860 - 1930), "Und bild' dir nur im Traum nichts ein", op. 40 no. 4, published 1895 [ high voice and piano ], from Acht Mädchenlieder von Paul Heyse, no. 4, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Carl Grammann (1844 - 1897), "Trutzliedchen", op. 49 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 6, published 1885 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Schuberth & Co. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Franz Hardt , "Trutzliedchen", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianofortebegleitung, no. 5, Berlin, Sulzer Nachf. Sort. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by (Leopold) Heinrich (Picot de Peccaduc), Freiherr von Herzogenberg (1843 - 1900), "Trutzlied", op. 98 no. 6, published 1897 [ three-part women's chorus a cappella (SMzA) ], from Sechs Mädchenlieder für dreistimmigen Frauenchor (Sopran, Mezzo-Sopran und Alt) mit Pianoforte, no. 6, Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann [ sung text checked 1 time]
• by Hans Huber (1852 - 1921), "Und bild dir nur im Traum nichts ein", op. 61 no. 4, published 1881 [ high voice and piano ], from Mädchenlieder, no. 4, Zürich, Hug [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Robert Kahn (1865 - 1951), "Trutzliedchen", op. 15 (Sechs Gesänge für vierstimmigen Frauenchor a capella) no. 2 (1892), published 1892 [ women's chorus a cappella ] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Alphonse Maurice (1856 - 1905), "Trutzliedchen", op. 9 (Sieben Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 7, published 1881 [ voice and piano ], Berlin, Bote & Bock [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Robert Músiol (1846 - 1903), "Trutzliedchen", published 1878 [ soprano and piano ], from Zwei Mädchenlieder für Sopran mit Pianoforte, no. 1, Hamburg, Pohle [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Friedrich Niggli (1875 - 1959), "Trutzliedchen", op. 8 (Zehn Lieder) no. 10 [ voice and piano ] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Georg Schumann (1866 - 1952), "Trutzliedchen", op. 35 no. 4, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Mädchenlieder für Gesang und Klavier, no. 4, Leipzig, F. E. C. Leuckart [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Felix Semon, M. D. (1849 - 1921), "Trutzliedchen", op. 6 no. 5, published 1877 [ medium voice or low voice and piano ], from Mädchenlieder von Heyse. Ein Cyclus von Gesängen für 1 tiefe (oder mittlere) Stimme mit Pianoforte, no. 5, Berlin, Bote & Bock [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Gustav Trautmann , "Trutzliedchen", op. 1 no. 8, published 1896? [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Victor von Woikowsky-Biedau (1866 - 1935), "Trutzliedchen", op. 16 (Fünf Gesänge für eine Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 2 [ voice and piano ], Magdeburg, Heinrichshofen's Verlag [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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• ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "And in your dream imagine nothing for yourself", copyright ©

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 73

And in your dream imagine nothing for yourself
for you are too young for me.
About your chin hardly any down yet sprouts:
it is not enough for me.

If I get married,
I must marry a rider on a horse,
twice as tall and broad as you,
his beard two ells long.

His black steed bolts with the wind's course,
his beard, it blankets me
as I sit before him on the knob of the saddle,
and off to the kitchens for you!