English Singing Translation of:

Johannes Brahms: Dort in den Weiden, Opus 97, No. 4 (SMB #102)

(There among the willows; folksong from the Lower Rhine)

There in the willows stands a house and through the window a girl looks out! She looks upstream, she looks downstream: is not my lover yet in sight? Most handsome fellow on the Rhine, I call my own!

Each morn' he sails the river Rhine and sings a greeting just to me; each evening when the glowworm flies his boat rocks by the river bank; then with my boyfriend I can be, together be!

The nightingale in lilac bush sings something I can understand; it says to me a year from now I'll celebrate a joyful nest, where with my lover I will be the happiest girl, [the happiest boy], along the Rhine!

(Approx. performance timing: 1:36)

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