Ich klag mich seer ich armes weyb (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2017-07-07). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 268 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Ich klag mich seer ich armes weyb
Composer: Anonymous
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: German
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1540 in Teutsche Liedlein (Georg Forster), Volume 2, no. 33
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Original text and translations
German text
ich armes weyb/
das mir so seer
mein stoltzer leyb/
die flöch grimlich zu beysen/
und nur die leylach bscheyssen/
wüst ich dar für ein fündt/
wie ichs vertreyben kundt.
So geb ich etwas drumb/
mein man ligt wie ein stumb/
in seinen bschissen schuhen/
thut mein kein floch nit suchen/
es stinkt im das maul/
recht wie ein acker gaul.
English translation
(A somewhat free translation.)
I poor woman must complain loudly
the crowd mock my beautyfull body
and slandourously smirch me.
If I only knew why and how
so I could end this slander.
Mayhapp It has something to do with This:
My husband always just lays like a log
with his manure cowerd shoes on.
Can the crowd berate me for this
His breath stinks
just like a manureditch.