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ErzählliedStory song

Alle Vögel sind schon da.

The melody of Alle Vögel sind schon da on a staff, as engraved in the book
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Verse 1

  1. Alle Vögel sind schon da,ahl-luh fer-guhl zint shohn dah,All the birds are here already,
  2. alle Vögel, alle!ahl-luh fer-guhl, ahl-luh!all the birds, all of them!
  3. Welch ein Singen, Musizier'n,vehlkh ain zing-uhn, moo-zi-tseern,What singing, what music making,
  4. Pfeifen, Zwitschern, Tirelier'n!pfai-fuhn, tsvit-shern, tee-ruh-leern!Whistling, twittering, warbling!
  5. Frühling will nun einmarschier'n,frew-ling vil noon ain-mar-sheern,Spring now wants to march in,
  6. kommt mit Sang und Schalle.komt mit zahng oont shahl-luh.it comes with song and sound.

Verse 2

  1. Wie sie alle lustig sind,vee zee ahl-luh loo-stikh zint,How merry they all are,
  2. flink und froh sich regen!flink oont froh zikh ray-guhn!stirring quick and glad!
  3. Amsel, Drossel, Fink und Star,ahm-zuhl, dros-suhl, fink oont shtahr,Blackbird, thrush, finch and starling,
  4. und die ganze Vogelscharoont dee gahn-tsuh foh-guhl-shahrand the whole flock of birds
  5. wünschet dir ein frohes Jahr,vewn-shuht deer ain froh-uhs yahr,wishes you a happy year,
  6. lauter Heil und Segen.low-ter hail oont zay-guhn.nothing but health and blessing.

Verse 3

  1. Was sie uns verkündet nun,vahs zee oons fer-kewn-duht noon,What they are announcing to us now,
  2. nehmen wir zu Herzen:nay-muhn veer tsoo hehr-tsuhn:we take to heart:
  3. wir auch wollen lustig sein,veer owkh vol-luhn loo-stikh zain,we too want to be merry,
  4. lustig wie die Vögelein,loo-stikh vee dee fer-guh-lain,merry like the little birds,
  5. hier und dort, feldaus, feldein,heer oont dort, fehlt-ows, fehlt-ain,here and there, out over the fields,
  6. singen, springen, scherzen.zing-uhn, shpring-uhn, sher-tsuhn.singing, leaping, joking.

About this song

Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote this spring song in 1835 and printed it in 1847 over an old Volksweise, with a piano part by Maria Nathusius. Tirelier'n is his word for a bird's warbling. The apostrophes stand for dropped endings that preserve the song's meter. March on the spot as spring marches in.

Where it comes from

The words: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Vierzig Kinderlieder (Engelmann, 1847), Nr. 33, S. 38.

The tune: The source prints the tune itself beside the text, so the reference is the song's own leaf: August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Vierzig Kinderlieder (Engelmann, Leipzig, 1847), Nr. 33 "Frühlingslied", S. 38, two systems in F major and common time, the vocal line over a keyboard reduction, headed Munter. at the left and Volksweise. Begl. von Maria Nathusius. at the right. Every pitch and value below is read off that engraving. Cross-checked note for note against two further sources, both agreeing: the score block in the Melodie section of the de.wikipedia article "Alle Vögel sind schon da", printed in D major, which transposed up a minor third is this staff degree for degree and melisma for melisma; and the engraving reproduced on Wikimedia Commons as Unsere Lieder 1861 - Alle Voegel sind schon da.png, from Unsere Lieder (Agentur des Rauhen Hauses, Hamburg, 1861), No. 4, in G major, which also confirms the Tirelier'n spelling and the old Staar and Schaar. Hoffmann's F major lies between C and G, so it is kept; range F4 to F5. The twelve bars are printed once, without the binary repeat marks Nathusius engraves around her already written out stanza

From the book

Bilingual Bedtime

Thirty-Seven German Songs for Children

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