Mudcat Café message #3804728

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Thread #160394 Message #3804728
Posted By: keberoxu
12-Aug-16 - 12:14 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Engl. version of 'Der wilde Wassermann'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Engl. version of 'Der wilde Wassermann'

Ach, Joe, you don't know your Wagner!! If you knew The Flying Dutchman, and the [imitation] traditional Ballade sung by heroine Senta, then, you would have seen, in the German lyric describing the curse on the Dutchman, the third verse:

Vor Anker alle sieben Jahr,
ein Weib zu freien, geht er ans Land;
Er freite alle sieben Jahr,
noch nie ein treues Weib er fand.