Everyone who goes on a pirate voyage with us

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Al die willen te kap'ren varen in Chants populaires des Flamands de France 1856
Everyone who goes on a pirate voyage with us

Everyone who goes on a pirate voyage with us is a sailor's song composed by Gottfried Wolters , which is based on the Flemish folk song Al die willen te kap'ren varen .

Lore history

The author of Al die willen te kap'ren varen is unknown. The one-strophic song was recorded in the first half of the 19th century by Edmond de Coussemaker, probably in Dunkirk , and appeared in print in 1856 in the Chants populaires des Flamands de France .

Gottfried Wolters translated the song into German and added five more stanzas to the original stanza. It was first published in 1951 in The Singing Year No. 10. Wolters subsequently used the song in other song collections, such as in 1962 in the Ars Musica teaching work and in 1959 in the Von Kerlen we want to sing collection . In addition to the six stanzas written by Wolters, there are numerous additions; The sloping tower performs twelve further stanzas, which were written by Gerd Watkinson and Helmut König , among others .

Wolters has translated two of the stanzas he wrote back into Dutch. Later stanzas were added to the Dutch version.

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Folk song researcher Florimond van Duyse points out that the inhabitants of Dunkirk saw themselves as privateers who plundered Spanish, English and Dutch ships. A variant of the song in which the fourth line of text reads “die hadden baerden, ze varen vreê” instead of “die hebben baerden, zy varen meê”, refers to the family of Jan Bart according to van Duyse .

While the first stanza of the German version largely follows the Flemish original verbatim, the following stanzas also describe events outside of the private life, such as the walrus hunt. Ernst Klusen classifies the song as a joke song because of its exaggerations .

music

\ relative c '' {\ key e \ minor \ time 6/8 \ autoBeamOff \ repeat volta 2 {e, 8 f sharp8 g8 f sharp8 g8 a8 | g8 g8 f sharp8 e4 h8 | e4 g8 f sharp8 g8 a8 | g4 f sharp8 e4. |} g4 a8 h4 a8 | g4 a8 h4. | e, 8 f sharp8 g8 f sharp4 f sharp8 | f sharp8 g8 a8 g4 e8 | g4 a8 h4 a8 | g4 a8 h4. | e, 8 f sharp8 g8 f sharp8 g8 a8 | g4 f sharp8 e4. \ bar "|." } \ addlyrics {Everyone who takes us on a car ride has to be men with bears. Jan and Hein and Klaas and Pitt, they have bears, they have bears, Jan and Hein and Klaas and Pitt, they have bears, who drive - ren with. }

The song is kept in a flowing six-eighth time . The range of the song in minor is a fifth , with the exception of a one-off jump to the lower fourth .

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literature

  • Edmond de Coussemaker: Chants populaires des Flamands de France. Recueillis et publié avec les mélodies originales, une traduction française et des notes. Gent 1856. p. 262.
  • Florimond van Duyse: Het oude Nederlandsche lied. First deel. Martinus Nijhoff / De Nederlandsche Boekhandel, The Hague / Antwerp 1903. pp. 853 f. ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gottfried Wolters: We want to sing about guys. Möseler, Wolfenbüttel 1959. P. 56 f. and 63.
  2. ↑ Konrad Schilling and Helmut König (eds.): The sloping tower. Voggenreiter, Bad Godesberg 1966. No. 54.
  3. ^ Ernst Klusen: On the situation of singing in the Federal Republic of Germany . Musikverlag Gerig, Cologne 1974, p. 84