Talk:Oh du lieber Augustin

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[edit] English

How common is the English lyrics variant of the song?? Georgia guy 21:51, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

hey ive translated the song, but not put it on the main page because I'd like someone to approve it. The word 'hin' doesn't really exist in a sense, but in Vienna it means gone, broke, destroyed; so I've just replaced it by gone.. it is also optional to include 'you' in the refrain. (the words 'garment' and 'stick' in line 7, can also be changed: i couldn't think of more proper words referring to the clothing simple people wore in the 17th century, and a walking-stick) Oh, [you] dear Augustine, Augustine, Augustine, Oh, dear Augustine, everything's gone.

Money's gone, girl is gone, Everything's gone, Augustine, Oh, dear Augustine, Everything's gone.

Garment's gone, stick is gone, Augustine's [lying on] the floor, Oh, dear Augustine, Everything's gone.

And even the wealthy Vienna, It's gone like Augustine, Weep with me in the same sense, Everything's gone!

Each day was a feast, And what now? Plague, the plague! Only a big corpse-feast, That is the rest.

Augustine, Augustine, Just lie yourself into the grave, Oh, dear Augustine, Everything's gone!

[edit] Song Title

I believe the proper name is "Ach, du Lieber, Augustin". MamaWaluigi 21:50, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

The article claims that the words were written in 1679. According to James J. Fuld's "The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk" (Dover, 1966/1995), the earliest printing was 1788/9. I think the date 1679 refers to the date of the events ie the plague. "Ach du Lieber, Austin" is the was it was pronounced in the 20th century. In the 18th century it was "O du Lieber Augustin". Ogg 21:17, 15 November 2007 (UTC)