Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz

Subject: Need words to "Blue Danube Waltz"
From:
Date: 08 Jan 97 - 02:52 PM

Someone I know remembers that there were words to the famous "Blue Danube" waltz. I have looked through the songbooks at the library, but haven't found any. Wayne King and his orchestra recorded the song in the 30s, from what I have found, but it didn't seem to be the one that was sung. I also did a search on DejaNews and came up with a few possible sources, but they seemed to be in German. She thinks the song went something like, "Beautiful river," or "Beautiful Blue Danube," maybe both! Does anyone know where I can find the words to this, or who may have recorded it? Thanks!

Subject: RE: Need words to
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jan 97 - 08:23 PM

Gee, maybe Strauss needs to have a talk with Disney!! (I don't THINK Strauss wrote any words, but maybe Walt did!)

[Found this with Alta Vista]

http://www.cybersuperstores.com/disney/fun.html

Mr. Owl and Professor Ludwig von Drake host Volume Five of DISNEY'S SINGALONG SONGS, which highlights the music from Disney's hit movie Oliver & Company.

Program includes:

1.Fun With Music - The Mickey Mouse Club 2.Why Should I Worry? - Oliver & Company 3.With a Smile and a Song - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 4.Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing - Disneyland Tiki Room 5.All in the Golden Afternoon - Alice in Wolnderland 6.While Strolling Through The Park - Nifty Nineties 7.Boo Boo Boo - A Symposium of Popular Songs 8.Green with Envy Blues - Adventures in Color 9.Good Company - Oliver & Company 10.Blue Danube Waltz - Square Peg in a Round Hole 11.Old MacDonald Had a Band - Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom 12.Scales and Arpeggios - The Aristocats 13.Why Should I Worry? (Reprise) - Oliver & Company

Subject: RE: Need words to
From: Taff
Date: 09 Jan 97 - 12:40 AM

I'm not 100 percent sure but I think it goes :-

Da da da da daa - Dum Dum - Dum Dum Da da da da daa - Dum Dum - Dum Dum Da da da da daa - Dum Dum - Dum Dum Da da da da daa - Dum Dum - Dum Dum

can't remember the next couple of lines ...

Anyone else remember them?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From:
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 01:10 AM

Found:

German Lyrics
English Translation

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Adrianel
Date: 14 Dec 06 - 07:09 PM

"The Danube ain't blue, it's green, it's green;
"The Danube ain't blue, it's green, it's green" et cetera.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 10:16 PM

Hello. My name is Larry in Chelsea, Oklahoma. I love the song but didn't know there were words until today. I am over 60 years old. Can you help me? Thank you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Jun 07 - 11:14 PM

The link to the German words by Franz von Gernerth, "An der Schönen blauen Donau," is still active, but the English translation link is dead.

http://ingeb.org/Lieder/donausob.html
Blauen Donau

An English translation here:
The Blue Danube

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: masato sakurai
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 12:21 AM

From the Levy collection:

Title: On the Beautiful Blue Danube. Song.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Music by Johann Stauss. Words by C.C. Haskins.
C. C. Haskins Publication: Louisville, Ky: D.P. Faulds, No. 70 Main St., 1874.
Form of Composition: sectional
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: Lightly we breast the Danube's wave, the beautiful Danube, clear and blue

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 09:27 AM

I've seen the Danube, and it's true that it wasn't blue. I learned that when the waltz was composed, "blue" (blau) was slang for "happy."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Leadfingers
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 10:55 AM

Stan Freburg !!!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Wolfgang
Date: 22 Jun 07 - 11:36 AM

Picture of the blue Danube

The Hungarians call it "blonde", the Romanians and Bulgarians call it "white".

A bit of trivia which is not common knowledge, even in Germany:

The Danube is a rare river that flows into two very different oceans many thousand kilometers apart. The young Danube splits and the major part of the Danube water joins via another small river the Lake of Constance and flows with the Rhine into the Northern Sea. The part of water flowing into the Rhine increases steadily. The time may not be too far away that all of the water of the young Danube flows into the Rhine. The state now is that on more than 200 days per year all the young Danube water flows into the Rhine. One hundred years ago that happened only on about 60 days per year. The "Danube" in these dry days reappears after some miles of a dry river bed with the next tributary. But in these days not a single drop of the young Danube is contained in the later Danube that leaves Germany.

Wolfgang



Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Samantha
Date: 28 Jun 07 - 09:26 AM

When I was little, my Dad sang these words to me but I can't find them anywhere. Perhaps he made them up?

Oh beautiful stream... so clear and blue.
A radiant dream... we bring to you.
The stars seem to float... above the sky.
With you as you go... reflect the light.

That's all I remember except it ended with

On your way... to join... the sea.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: jamesga
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 01:46 PM

As I remember from 1946-48.

Beautiful stream... so clear and blue.
A radiant dream... we bring to you.
The stars seem to float... above the sky.
With you as you go... reflect the light.
And gay is the song, and gay the song
You carry along, you bear along
By shores that you lave, with your wave
On your way... to join... the sea.

There may be and probably are more and different versions.

I have been somewhat confused about lines three and four but maybe we both have learned a little.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Joe_F
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 06:36 PM

Some fragments of an English version that I remember from grade school (1940s):

River so blue,
Of marvelous hue,
. . .
. . .
You open my eyes
To . . . paradise.
Alive is my soul, is my soul.
To my heart the spring has come.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,mr. Poopy ButtHole
Date: 13 May 17 - 02:44 PM

this is what i know

A Beautiful Stream (so clear, and blue)
A beautiful dream (of me and you)
the stars seem to float(above , the sky)
with us as we go (they fly, so high)
were up in the air (up in, the air)
As high as we dare(high as, we dare)

aaaaaand... thats all i know

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Ishirle
Date: 24 May 17 - 01:00 AM

Ye s, i am 84 yrs. old. I went to a rural school in KS . We sang that song. I was shocked that I could not find the lyrics. Thanks to you folks. The words I remembered were exactly like Samantha's memory. There were more words.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Bethel Klink
Date: 23 Jun 17 - 02:08 AM

The way I remember it is:
Oh, beautiful stream, so clear and blue
A radiant dream, we bring to you,
The sky seems to flow, the stream so bright,
With you as you go, reflects the light,
And gay is the song, and gay the song,
You carry along, you bear along,
By shores that you laythe,? that you laythe,?
Shores you laythe to join the sea.
(That word, laythe,? is pretty uncertain)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Bethel Klink
Date: 23 Jun 17 - 02:28 AM

I might agree with others, that the last line was:

On your way... to join... the sea.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,b
Date: 12 Apr 18 - 04:15 PM

beautiful stream, so clear and blue,
a radiant dream
we sing to you.
And gay is the song we sing along
with you as you go so clear and strong
by shores that you lave
with your wave
on your way to join the sea

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Chief Ron
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 04:32 PM

Oh beautiful stream, so clear and blue,
a radiant dream, we sing to you,
The sky seem to flow, the stream so bright,
with you as you go, reflects the light,
and gay is the song, and gay the song,
you carry along, you bare along,
by shores that you lave, with your wave,
on your way to join the sea.

(the last stanza, On your way to join the sea)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 05:28 PM

http://parlorsongs.com/content/b/bluedanube-lyr.php

English words there. If it duplicates anything from earlier on this thread, sorry.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Kingwood Kowboy
Date: 17 Sep 19 - 06:02 PM

As sung by Hank Snow:

Written by: JAMES JOHNSTON STEWART, JOHANN STRAUSS
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group

All the years have come, and the years have gone,
but the oft told tale is not true,
for of all the things the Danube is,
the Danube is not blue.
The Danube is green,
what's more it ain't clean.
It's green as a bean.
It ain't not serene.
And though the blueberry looks a little purple,
And though your maple syrup looks a little murple,
Don't believe what you have heard or you have saw.
Oh the Danube isn't blue, it's green.
Oh, the Danube is green as the grass in the spring
It's as green as the dollar you spend on a fling.
It's as green as the paint that you put on the screen.
Oh the blue of the Danube is greener than green.
The Danube isn't blue (Am I blue? No!)
The Danube has another hue (Who? Me? You!)
It's time we all came clean, (B.O.)
'Cause the Danube isn't blue, it's green.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Tiger
Date: 18 Sep 19 - 10:21 AM

We used to sing:

The Blue Danube Waltz,
By Strauss, the louse,
Who lived in a mouse's house.

Looks like the Muppets did a version, too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Rico by the sea
Date: 16 Jun 20 - 05:29 AM

I found these words online a while back - still my favorite version:
    A beautiful stream... so clear and blue
    A beautiful dream... of me and you
    The stars seem to float... above the sky
    With us as we go... they fly so high
    We’re up in the air... up in the air
    As high as we dare... high as we dare
    We’ll never come down... we will stay
    Until night becomes the day. Ba-Dum Bum!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Anonymous
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 07:47 AM

Does this count? From the mid-1960's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjK8vReNEWs

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 18 Jun 20 - 10:46 AM

Sorry, no lyrics, but this one always made me laugh!
Victor Borge plays Blue Danube

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Feb 21 - 04:23 PM

[A beautiful stream... so clear and blue
    A beautiful dream... of me and you
    The stars seem to float... above the sky
    With us as we go... they fly so high
    We’re up in the air... up in the air
    As high as we dare... high as we dare
    We’ll never come down... we will stay
    Until night becomes the day. Ba-Dum Bum!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Dec 21 - 09:48 AM

Janet Van Fleet [e-mail]

I'm so glad to see this thread, as I've been looking online for several years for the lyrics, without success. I learned the words to this in elementary school in Santa Fe, NM in the 1950's. In our music class, the kids were divided into two groups (probably boys and girls, this being the 1950's...) and one group sang the first part, the other the one in parentheses, until the last two lines, when everybody sang together. I have forgotten the two lines with the XXX (which I think were about the landscape it was passing through -- fields and towns, etc., but I just can't bring it back...) and also the first part of the penultimate line. I believe this piece was in the songbook we used, so somewhere there exists a printed document...

Beautiful stream (oh stream so blue)
You ripple and gleam (I dream of you)
The sky seems to glow (oh stream so bright)
With you as you go (reflects the light)
XXX
XXX
XXX      As you flow
Through (or to) the valley far below

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,d smith
Date: 21 Dec 22 - 09:41 AM

Thank you. I've looked all over for this. It was the word radient that I couldn't remember.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Susan D.
Date: 13 Mar 24 - 06:57 PM

My grandmother, born in the late 1800s, taught us this version. Her ancestors were from Germany & Austria. My father remembered their Christmas tree with actual candles on it.
The wording seems to closely match GUEST.Chief Ron

Beautiful stream, so clear and blue,
a radiant dream, we sing to you,
The sky seem to glow, the stream so bright,
with you as you’re go…ing, reflects the light,
and gay is the song, and gay the song,
you carry along, you bare along,
by shores that you lave, with your wave,
on your way to join the sea.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: GUEST,Steve Shaw
Date: 14 Mar 24 - 07:44 AM

"Gee, maybe Strauss needs to have a talk with Disney!! (I don't THINK Strauss wrote any words, but maybe Walt did!)" [quote from Bill in 1997]

Well Bill should know that, whilst lots of other people sing words to the tune, Walt disnae...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Blue Danube Waltz
From: davidharley
Date: 18 Mar 24 - 12:23 PM

I hesitate to mention it, but the Barron Knights also got into the act with 'The House of Johann Strauss'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmddNIWzL_A