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Transcribe Old German print into something I can read?
The following image contains the music and words to a song that may be connected to another song I am researching called "My Pigeon House."
http://i971.photobucket.com/albums/ae191/Songbird1...
Can someone please transcribe this for me? German is OK and I"ll paste it into another question asking for a translation.
If you want to translate it into English for me also, I want a very literal translation even if it doesn't make much sense.
Thanks, Molly
1 Answer
- Erik Van ThienenLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Here are the lyrics in electronic form and normal alphabet : http://www.volksliederarchiv.de/text2531.html
"Nightingale, nightingale, how you sang so beautifully
for all the little birds
Nightingale, nightingale, how your song penetrated
into every heart
When you sang, the whole world cried :
'now it must be spring'
Nightingale, nightingale, how your song penetrated
into every heart."
"Nightingale, nightingale, how are you silent now
You sang such a short time
Why will you, why will you not you sing anymore
I feel so sad about that.
When you sang my heart was so full
of pleasure and happiness
Why you will, why you will not sing anymore
I feel so sad about that."
"When May, when May, when delightful May
flees with its flowers
feels it , feels it so strange to my heart
I do not know what happens to me
I wanted to sing too, I could not
I cannot manage one song
feels it , feels it so strange to my heart
I do not know what happens to me."
Source(s): Belgian