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Hey, Robin, jolly Robin, Tell me how thy lady does. My lady is unkind, perdy. Hey, Robin, jolly Robin, Tell me why is she so? She loves another, another.
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Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act IV, Scene 2 [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 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897 - 1957), "Hey, Robin", op. 29 no. 4, published 1937 [voice and piano], from Songs of the Clown, no. 4. [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Paavo Cajander)
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo)
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Hei, Kehlchen", copyright © 2013, (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: 6
Word count: 29
Hei, Kehlchen, muntres Kehlchen, sag mir, wie's der Gattin geht. Mein Weibchen ist gemein, fürwahr. Hei, Kehlchen, muntres Kehlchen. sag mir, warum sie's ist? Sie liebt 'nen Andern, 'nen Andern.
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- Translation from English to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2013 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
Bertram Kottmann. Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de
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Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act IV, Scene 2
This text was added to the website: 2013-04-10
Line count: 6
Word count: 30