Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
German source:
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Leider, ach leider!
Und manche Trän’ fiel in Grabes Schoss,
Ihr müsst singen: ’Nunter! Und ruft ihr ihn ’nunter.
Denn traut lieb Fränzel ist all meine Lust. —
They bore him bare-faced on the bier
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Alas, ah alas!
And many a tear fell into his grave,
A-down, a-down, you must call him a-down.
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Translations by Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss
German source:
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
They bore him bare-faced on the bier
English source:
Richard Stokes
Sie trugen ihn auf der Bahre bloss,
They bore him bare-faced on the bier,
Leider, ach leider!
Alas, ah alas!
Und manche Trän’ fiel in Grabes Schoss,
And many a tear fell into his grave,
Ihr müsst singen: ’Nunter! Und ruft ihr ihn ’nunter.
A-down, a-down, you must call him a-down.
Denn traut lieb Fränzel ist all meine Lust. —
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
Composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna. Brahms has been considered, by his…
Poet
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
August Wilhelm (after 1812: von) Schlegel, usually cited as August Schlegel, was a German poet, translator, critic, and a foremost leader of Jena Romanticism along with his brother Friedrich Schlegel. His translations of Shakespeare made the English…