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Thread #37963   Message #3358388
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
02-Jun-12 - 12:51 PM
Thread Name: Aug 18th, 1941: Lili Marleen
Subject: RE: Aug 18th, 1941: Lili Marleen
The lines from the Marlene Dietrich version are not in the original poem by Hans Leip.
They are the invention of the songwriter for Dietrich and have no bearing on the original; they do not bear serious discussion.

The original poem, Lili Marleen, is posted in mudcat, but to repeat the last verse of Leip's famous poem:

Aus dem stillen Raume,
aus der Erde Grund
hebt mich wir im Traume
dein verliebter Mund.
Wenn sich die späten Nebel drehn,
werd ich bei der Laterne stehn
wie einst, Lili Marleen.