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Lyr Req: Auf Wiederseh'n

18 Nov 96 - 03:12 PM (#431)
Subject: Lyrics: Aufwiedersehn
From: autoharp@pa.net

Can't find the words to this once-popular song anywhere! Told folks I could surely find them here! Please help me maintain my shaky-but-still-intact reputation. . .


16 Sep 01 - 08:28 PM (#551922)
Subject: RE: Lyrics: Aufwiedersehn
From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca

I wonder if that is the one which, I think, Marlene Dietrich sang iin some WWII movie.


16 Sep 01 - 08:33 PM (#551926)
Subject: Lyr Add: AUF WIEDERSEH'N, SWEETHEART
From: Joe Offer

Hi - is this the one you want?
-Joe Offer (e-mail sent)-


Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart

-Artist: Vera Lynn as sung on "The White Cliffs Of Dover"
-MCA Records MSC2-35199 WCC
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 9 weeks in 1952
-English words by John Sexton and John Turner
-Music by Eberhard Storch


(Auf wiedersehen, auf wiedersehen)
(We'll meet again, sweetheart)
This lovely day has flown away
The time has come to part

We'll kiss again, like this again
Don't let the teardrops start
With love that's true, I'll wait for you
Auf wiedersehen, sweetheart



Copied from Lyrics World


16 Sep 01 - 08:43 PM (#551936)
Subject: Lyr Add: AUF WIEDERSEH'N (Cole Porter)
From: Joe Offer

There's also this one by Cole Porter.
-Joe Offer-


AUF WIEDERSEH'N
(Cole Porter)

Lynn Siebert's Thematic Catalogue of Porter's music notes that the music to "Auf Wiederseh'n" is almost identical to the music for "The Old-Fashioned Waltz" (HitchyKoo of 1922). Notations on manuscript copies indicate that "Auf Wiederseh'n" might also have been intended for the unproduced Porter show titled Ever Yours or Once Upon a Time (1933-1934).


VERSE
Somewhere I read
A poet who said
That parting was such a sweet sorrow.
I, too, can say
As you leave me today
That my sorrow is sweet
If tomorrow we meet.



REFRAIN

Auf Wiederseh'n,
Auf Wiederseh'n,
So fare thee well till we meet again,
For though we part,
We know, sweetheart,
Our love could not be in vain.
You'll trust in me,
I'll trust in you,
And soon we'll live in a dream come true.
So please don't cry,
It's not goodbye,
It's only Auf Wiederseh'n.