(versão de “Als Die Alte Mutter”, de Dvorak e Adolf Heyduk)

Quando mamãe me ensinava
Canções que me cativavam
Normalmente dos seus olhos
Lágrimas rolavam

Quando eu ensino agora
Canções a cada pequeno
Lágrimas também escorrem
Lágrimas correm
Pelo meu rosto moreno

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Als Die Alte Mutter
Dvorak: Adolf Heyduk

Als die alte Mutter
Mich noch lehrte singen,
Tränen in den Wimpern
Gar so oft ihr hingen.

Jetzt, wo ich die Kleinen
Selber üb im Sange,
Rieselt’s in den Bart oft,
Rieselt’s oft
Von der braunen Wange.
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SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME

(by Natalia Macfarren)

Songs my mother taught me,
In the days long vanished;
Seldom from her eyelids
Were the teardrops banished.

Now I teach my children,
Each melodious measure.
Off the tears are flowing,
Off they flow from my memory’s treasure.

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