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Thread #75831 Message #1338453
Posted By: Joe Offer
25-Nov-04 - 12:59 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Phyllis and Her Mother
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Phyllis and Her Mother
Great song, Dave. Here are Dyer-Bennet's notes from the CD booklet:
This song was published in Germany in 1799, and both poet and compower were given as anonymous. I got it from Sven Scholander in Stockholm, in 1935. The translation is my own, and more free than literal.
Anybody have the original German lyrics? -Joe Offer-