| Mit Liebesblick und Spiel und Sang
| With a love look and play and song
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| Warb Christel, jung und schön
| Promoted Christel, young and beautiful
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| So lieblich war, so frisch und schlank
| Was so lovely, so fresh and slim
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| Kein Jüngling rings zu seh’n
| No youth to be seen around
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| Nein, keiner war
| No, none was
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| In ihrer Schaar
| In their crowd
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| Für den ich das gefühlt
| For whom I felt this
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| Das merkt' er, ach!
| He notices that, alas!
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| Und ließ nicht nach
| And didn't let up
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| Bis er es all, bis er es all
| Until he has it all, until he has it all
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| Bis er es all erhielt
| Until he received it all
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| Wohl war im Dorfe mancher Mann
| Certainly there were many a man in the village
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| So jung und schön, wie er;
| As young and beautiful as he is;
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| Doch sahn nur ihn die Mädchen an
| But the girls only looked at him
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| Und kosten um ihn her
| And taste around him
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| Bald riß ihr Wort
| Her word soon broke
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| Ihn schmeichelnd fort;
| flattering him away;
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| Gewonnen war sein Herz
| His heart was won
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| Mir ward er kalt
| I got cold
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| Dann floh er bald
| Then he soon fled
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| Und ließ mich hier, und ließ mich hier
| And left me here, and left me here
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| Und ließ mich hier in Schmerz
| And left me here in pain
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| Sein Liebesblick und Spiel und Sang
| His love look and play and song
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| So süß und wonniglich
| So sweet and blissful
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| Sein Kuß, der tief zur Seele drang
| His kiss that went deep to the soul
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| Erfreut nicht fürder mich
| Doesn't make me happy
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| Schaut meinen Fall
| look at my case
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| Ihr Schwestern all
| All you sisters
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| Für die der Falsche glüht
| For the wrong one glows
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| Und trauet nicht
| And don't trust
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| Dem, was er spricht
| What he speaks
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| O seht mich an, mich Arme an
| O look at me, poor me
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| O seht mich an, und flieht | O look at me and flee |