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The "German Workers' Marseillaise" is a socialist song written in 1864 by Jacob Audorf [1] for the General German Workers' Association to the melody of French national anthem "La Marseillaise". Lyrics
German lyrics Approximate English translation Weit laßt die Fahnen wehen, Wir woll'n zum Sturme gehen Frei nach Landsknechtsart. Laßt den verlor'nen Haufen, Vorwärts zum Sturme laufen Wir folgen dicht geschart! Far let the banners flutter, we want to go to the storm Free by landsknecht custom Let the forlorn vanguard trek forwards to the storm,
"Wochenend und Sonnenschein" ("Weekend and Sunshine") is a song with German lyrics that was copyrighted in 1930 by Charles Amberg (lyrics) and Milton Ager (music). The music is based on the famed American song "Happy Days Are Here Again" that was copyrighted in 1929 by Ager and Jack Yellen (English lyrics). The German lyrics are very different ...
"Ach, wie ist's möglich dann" also known as "Treue Liebe" (True/Loyal Love), and “How Can I Leave Thee” is a German now-traditional song.Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken (1810–1882), a German composer and conductor, claimed to have composed the tune, and that it was later modified "probably by Silcher" ("wahrscheinlich von Silcher her") and given the general name Thüringer Volkslied ...
In 1858, Henry Hugh Pierson, an English composer resident in Germany, had written a tune for the patriotic song "Ye Mariners of England" by Thomas Campbell. [1] One year later, he met Ludwig Bauer, who later married Pierson's stepdaughter Dorothea Lyser. Pierson asked Bauer to write a German text to the existing tune. [2]
It was originally written as a German language song, "Du Kannst Nicht Treu Sein," by composer Hans Otten and lyricist Gerhard Ebeler. English language lyrics and title were written by Hal Cotten . In 1948 , Ken Griffin recorded the song, first released as an instrumental [ 1 ] and later with vocalist Jerry Wayne dubbing the lyrics, both of ...
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The lyrics of this song consist of three stanzas, the first of which sets the boundaries of the Afrikaans homeland with the means of geographical areas, the second of which states the importance of "Afrikaans mothers, daughters, sun, and field", recalling the "German women, loyalty, wine, and song", and the third of which describes the ...