Timpe, tompe, terelink,
vliegt van hier [na]1 Derelijk,
vliegt van hier [na]1 Rompelschee,
koper kop en stalen tee;
wilt hij op zijn [been]2 niet staan;
'k moet er met de [zwepe]3 op slaan:
Timpe, tompe, terelink.

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¹ Broeckx: "naar"
² Broeckx: "teen"
³ Broeckx: "zweep"

Text Authorship:

• by Guido (Pieter Theodoor Jozef) Gezelle (1830 - 1899), no title [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 Jan Broeckx (1880 - 1966), "Timpe tompe terelink ", 1949 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Frans Dooms , "Timpe Tompe", 1980 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jan Haderman , "Timpe tompe terelink" [ women's chorus or men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Raymond Albert Keldermans (1911 - 1984), "Timpe tompe terelink", 1942 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jan Masséus (1913 - 1999), "Timpe, tompe, terelink", op. 26 [ vocal duet with piano four-hands and percussion ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hugo Roels , "Timpe tompe terelink" [ voice, unaccompanied ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Herman Roelstrate (1925 - 1985), "Timpe - tompe terelink", op. 8 no. 3 (1949) [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Van der Spurt , "Timpe tompe terelink", op. 85 (1920) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Luc Van Hove , "Timpe tompe terelink" [ women's chorus or men's chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jan Van Landeghem (b. 1954), "Timpe, tompe, terelink" [ four-part mixed chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2012-08-23
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Word count: 40