The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167992   Message #4056701
Posted By: keberoxu
02-Jun-20 - 11:25 AM
Thread Name: 'En over de Weide' charming Dutch song
Subject: 'En over de Weide' charming Dutch song
The recording to which this post will provide a link
dates from 1963, and was released by Smithsonian on its
Ethnic Folkways series;
the full album was called "Lullabies of the World."

The anonymous Dutch singer on this track sings
two lullabies, actually, one after the other;
and "En over de Weide" is the second one,
you have to get through the first lullaby to get to
"En over de Weide."
This second tune begins at about 1:10 (one minute, ten seconds).

In fact, although "En over de Weide" appears in many Dutch-language songbooks
and has entered the repertoire of, as Anna Russell says when quoting the Encyclopedia Britannica,
"... vocal utterances of the people",

this is a published song dating back to the 1870's.
Composer: Richard Hol (born Rijk Holle)
Text: Gentil Theodoor Antheunis


Holland: lullaby medley including 'En over de Weide'