Lyr Req: Snow White Little Bird

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snow White Little Bird
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 02:24 PM

Goof find, CND! Here's a YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV7SZdCVqDY

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snow White Little Bird
From: cnd
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 01:43 PM

Here's a page all about the song, but it's in Dutch. It has sheet music, alternate lyrics, and more

http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/duys001oude01_01/duys001oude01_01_0215.php

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Snow White Little Bird
From: cnd
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 01:38 PM

Here is the song they're asking about, from "Minne-Liederen Op Middeleeuwse Teksten (Love Songs on Medieval Texts) by Wouter Paap

Daer was een sneeuwwit vogeltje

There was a snow-white little bird
Sitting on a thorn
Din, don, deine
"Will you, sir, be my messenger?"
"Sir, I will indeed,"
Din, don, deine
He took the letter in his beak
And flew over the fence to his beloved's door
"Are you sleeping, awake, or dead?"
Din don
"Sleeping or waking it does not matter
I've been married half a year already"
Din don
"You're married already a half year?
It seems like a thousand years to me"
Din don
There was a snow-white little bird
Sitting on a thorn

SOURCE: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc79460/m1/173/

Subject: Lyr Req: Snow White Little Bird
From: Joe Offer
Date: 03 Oct 16 - 09:42 AM

Somebody tried to post this request, but apparently it didn't "take." Anybody know this song?
-Joe-

Will appreciate help identifying this song. Thx.


I saw a snow white little bird
He had the sweetest voice I heard
He sat upon a little tree
Ding dong denny
He sat upon a little tree
Ding dong dee

Will you deliver this for me
Will you etc
Yes sir your messenger I'll be
Ding dong etc