#2010 - The Nightingale's Song

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• Composer:
  • Carl Adam Johann Nepomuk Zeller

    • #2010 - The Nightingale's Song
    • #2136 - Don't be Cross

    (1842–1898), 1891¹⁾
  • from the operetta Der Vogelhändler (The Bird Seller), (The Tyrolienne), (The Tyrolean)
• Also known as:
  • The Nightingale Song
  • Wie Mein Ahn'l Zwanzig jahr
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• Lyrics:
  When my sire was twenty years,
  And a poacher without fears,
  Neath the moonlight full of joy,
  He first kiss'd his Resiroy
  As he kiss'd her in the vale,
  Then just sang a nightingale.
  Now these two in their delight
  Oft wish'd by day and night,
  
  chorus:
  Sing again, sing again nightingale,
  That sweet strain, sing again,
  Sing again, sing again nightingale,
  As thou sangest in the vale.
  Sing again, sing again nightingale,
  As thou sangest in the vale.
  
  When my sire was eighty years,
  An old grumbler, full of fears,
  As he sat beside the brook,
  After maiden long he'd look,
  Then he sigh'd oh dearie me,
  Where may not my Resi be.
  Then he shouted like a boy
  And sang aloud with joy.
  
  
  • Moritz West and Ludwig Held (1837-1900), 1891
  • trans. Helen F. Tretbar, 1891