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lyrics: T. Kolitsch music: J. Oelmann/J. Weinelt
filmed March-June 2015 in Halle (Saale) on Canon 700D
camera, trick & editing: Jan Oelmann
Mermaid of the River Saale
lyrics: Thomas Kolitsch, after a local folktale from Halle upon Saale.
We danced on the banks of the river.
He said softly: "I want to be yours now".
I kissed his hot mouth with my cool lips
and said, "live with me on the bottom of the River Saale.
But you are a human, a shepherd's son,
while my father sits on the mermaid king's throne.
Think well over a year
Before you marry me. "
A year passed, he returned,
and hugged me full of joy and happiness,
touched my wet face
and said, "I follow you and do not leave you.
You are a mermaid and I am your man."
So he spoke and pulled me close to him.
Lying on the bank, we were one in no time.
The river rushed by murmuring and knowing.
chorus:
We climbed into the water so pleasantly cold
And left the heavy world behind us,
gently glided through the roses, through green weed.
and joined in the sisters' song.
Time flowed as it always does.
A son was born, fresh and good.
He played with the little fish and laughed.
We danced and drifted away glad and free.
My husband said, "I would like to go
ashore to see after my mother."
"Hurry up. Come home in three days.
The mermaid's punishment will be terrible otherwise! "
chorus:
Then I got into the water, so pleasantly cold
And left behind the heavy world behind me,
glided gently through the roses, through green weed.
and joined in my sisters' song.
Three days passed. Silently he returned.
He was silent. I was deeply worried.
Then he said to me, "Your wet body
can not warm me anymore. You are no longer my wife."
Then he fell down, his face pale,
the warmth of the blood vanished from his body.
The waves of the River Saale, they turned red.
I stood there alone; my husband, he was dead.
chorus:
Then I got into the water for the very last time.
The shepherd remained lying dead with my heart's agony.
I disappeared between the roses, lost me in the weed.
And never again raised my voice to sing my song.
18 сен 2024
