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Thread #52807   Message #2263538
Posted By: Susanne (skw)
15-Feb-08 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: German Folk Songs
Subject: RE: German Folk Songs
Deutsche Lieder - German Songs

What a mixture! Any page containing the word 'Brauchtum' is suspect as far as I am concerned.

However, I found I remember about 90 per cent of the songs listed from childhood and am still perfectly able to sing them.

Incidentally, the song Manfred quotes above is the German version of what Pete Seeger turned into his great song 'Where have all the flowers gone'. Both go back to a Cossack song quoted in Sholokhov's 'Quiet Flows the Don'.