Lauterbacher Strumpflied

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The Lauterbacher Strumpflied is an old folk tune whose origins are obscure. A special feature of the Strumpflied is that it has been handed down in different places with the name " Lauterbach " in the respective dialect .

So took and still take different places to be the Lauterbach that is sung about. This is particularly the case in Lauterbach in the Black Forest and Lauterbach in Hesse , where the story of the stocking is told to this day and is reflected, for example, by a monument in the village.

The song verse below can be seen as the common property of the various “Lauterbachs”.

In Lauterbach I lost my stocking,
and I won't go home without a stocking.
So I'll just go back to Lauterbach
and get my stocking on my leg.

Also some places with the name " Lautenbach " related this song verse to themselves (using this place name accordingly).

A six-stanza version goes way back, which was sung by the Zillertal brothers Franzl, Balthasar and Anton Leo in the 1830s and 1840s. According to Ludwig Erk and Franz Magnus Böhme, Deutscher Liederhort , Volume 2, Leipzig 1893, song number 1009, the song was "written before 1820"; it is certain that it was popularized in the 1820s by "Zillertaler Singers" ( Zillertal ) from Tyrol who performed with it. In his edition Droben, Hermann Strobach refers to that mountain. German folk songs , Volume 1, Rostock 1984, song number 73 a, on an undated song pamphlet with the text in the Baier dialect, which he dates between 1820 and 1830. The German Folk Song Archive ( Deutsches Volksliedarchiv ) knows a song pamphlet that is dated “Zell am Zyller 1829” and overwrites this and other texts with “Tyroler Nationalgesänge”. The song 1826 and 1827 can be found in the repertoire of the Tyrolean singers "Geschwister Rainer".

The American songwriter Septimus Winner wrote the new text "Where oh where is my little dog gone" based on the song melody in 1864, which became a popular North American children's song. The song found its way into a school songbook in Alsace in 1926 as "C'est à Lauterbach, où l'on danse sans cesse".

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Individual evidence

  1. [1] German Folk Song Archive
  2. [2] see Fig. 2.b u. Fig. 2.c
  3. [3] I lost my stocking at Lauterbach, (Tiroler Lied 1829)
  4. Sandra Hupfauf, The songs of the Rainer siblings and "Rainer Family" from the Zillertal (1822-1843) [...], supplemented, edited and edited. by Thomas Nussbaumer, Innsbruck 2016 (Writings on musical ethnology, Volume 5), pp. 36–39 (with further information, including a musical print, London 1827, “The Melody by Felix Rainer”). Cf. Otto Holzapfel : Lied index: The older German-language popular song tradition ( online version on the Volksmusikarchiv homepage of the Upper Bavaria district ; in PDF format; ongoing updates) with further information: cf. Lexicon keyword "Zillertal", also on the Zillertal singers Rainer.