It's raining, it's raining

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It's raining, it's raining is a well-known German language children's song from the 19th century. The song exists in different text versions and is sung on different melodies, including a version as a canon by Carl Friedrich Zelter . A three-part canon in the cantata Cuckoo from all over the world published by Fidula-Verlag, Stuttgart 1953 comes from Felicitas Kukuck .

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In the first stanza it is described that it is raining and the earth is getting wet and it is noted as an advantage of the rain that grass will grow again. The second stanza explains that it would rain its course and when it has rained enough it will stop. The final third stanza asks what we care that it rains, since we are sitting in the dry and thus do not get wet.

reception

The song is sung in kindergartens and elementary schools.

text

1st stanza
It's raining, it's raining, the earth is getting wet!
And when it has rained enough, grass will grow again!

2nd stanza
It's raining, it's raining, it's raining its course!
And when it has rained enough, it stops again!

3rd verse
It's raining, it's raining, what do we care!
We sit dry and don't get wet!

Wilhelm Grimm created a text version for Clemens Brentano that was included in Des Knaben Wunderhorn :

Good appetite

It's raining, God bless,
The sun is shining,
the moon whines,
Pfaff sits encouraging store
Eats all the stockade!
The nun goes to the inn,
and drinks all of her glasses.

Melodies

\ relative g '{\ key c \ major \ time 2/4 \ autoBeamOff \ partial 8 g8 | g4 e8 g | g4 e8 g | f4 d8 f | e4. g8 | g4 e8 g | g4 e8 g | f4 d8 b8 | c4. \ bar "|." } \ addlyrics {It's raining, God bless, the earth is getting wet. We are sitting in the dry, what harms us? }

19th century version. With the exception of the last two bars, the melody of this version corresponds to a melody by Johann Abraham Peter Schulz from 1794, which later became known with the text of the Christmas carol Ihr Kinderlein, kommet .

\ relative a '{\ key d \ major \ time 2/4 \ autoBeamOff \ partial 8 a8 | a4 f sharp8 a | a4 f sharp8 a | g4 f sharp8 e | f sharp4 r8 a8 | a4 f sharp8 a | a4 f sharp8 a | g4 f sharp8 e | d4 r8 \ bar "|." } \ addlyrics {It 's raining, it' s raining, and everything gets wet: the trees, the flowers, the animals, the grass. }

Alternative version.

\ relative g '{\ key c \ major \ time 2/4 \ autoBeamOff \ partial 8 g8 | g4 e8 g | g4 e8 g | aaca | g4 r8 g8 | fefd | eggg | gfed | c4 r8 \ bar "|." } \ addlyrics {It is raining, it is raining, it is raining its course, and when it has rained enough, it stops again ! }

Further version, text handed down orally from Kassel by Johann Lewalter .

\ relative c '{\ key f \ major \ time 2/4 \ autoBeamOff \ partial 8 c8 ^ "1." | ffff | egc, g '^ "2." | acf, a | g4 r8 c, 8 ^ "3." | c 'caf | bes bes bes bes ^ "4." | af c'4 ~ | c << {c,} {s8 s8 ^ "5." } >> | f4 r | r r8 \ bar ": |" } \ addlyrics {It rains when it wants to rain, and rains its course, and when it has rained enough, it sounds like - the on. }

Five-part canon version by Carl Friedrich Zelter .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franz Magnus Böhme : German children's song and children's game. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1897, p. 209 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Frank Weber: Children's songs. 100 lyrics of the most beautiful children's songs . 3. Edition. BoD - Books on Demand, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-3024-2 , p. 43 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Achim von Arnim, Clemens Brentano (ed.): Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Old German songs. Volume 3. [Section] Children's Songs . Mohr and Zimmer, Heidelberg 1808, p. 72 ( Bon appetit at Zeno.org .)
  4. ↑ Theo Mang, Sunhilt Mang (ed.): Der Liederquell . Noetzel, Wilhelmshaven 2007, ISBN 978-3-7959-0850-8 , pp. 722 f .
  5. ↑ Bernd Pachnicke (Ed.): German folk songs for voice and piano. Edition Peters, Leipzig undated [1976], p. 69.
  6. ^ Anton Hofer: Sprüche, Spiele and Lieder der Kinder (= Corpus musicae popularis Austriacae. Volume 16). Böhlau, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-205-98857-4 , p. 187 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  7. ↑ The Canon Book. Schott, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-7957-5374-0 , p. 253.