4) Sleeping Beauty

trad.

 

Deep in the woods concealed by thorns,

There he's asleep a century long,

Even the fly sleeps on the wall,

All sleep sound

Horse and hound

And on the stove the fire's gone out.

 

Now with her sword she arrives,

The thornhedge parts at her sight,

she went inside to his room,

In his sleep

Soft and deep

kneels down to kiss her sleeping groom.

 

Then from his sleep he wakes at once,

To him she gives a ring of gold,

even the fly wakes on the wall,

Up they bound,

Horse and hound,

And on the stove the fire now burns.

 

whistle solo by Anna Bux

 

from

Volkskinderlieder

für eine Singstimme und Klavier WoO 31 Nr. 1

Den Kindern Robert & Clara Schumanns gewidmet