Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

" Morning Comes Santa Claus " is a German Christmas carol, the text of Hoffmann von Faller life (1798-1874) has written 1835 gevatterlicher for the collection Pleiades weighing songs for wife Minna von Winterfeld under the title The Father Christmas.

The text was published in 1837 with a melody of Ernst Heinrich Leopold judge in whose song collection for teaching and again in 1843 in Hoffmann Fifty children's songs with the same melody, not by sitting down.

Today's traditional melody comes from the French song Ah! dirai vous -je, Maman (proven since about 1761), the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart used as a basis for his piano variations Köchelverzeichnis 265. Even Ernst von Dohnányi's Variations on a Nursery Song for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 25, vary the melody. In various languages ​​, there are other versions of the song with other text, such as the English Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. As alphabet song the alphabet is sung to this tune.

Melody

Text

The original text:

Morning comes Santa Claus, Comes with his gifts. Drum, pipe and gun, Fahn and saber, and even more, Yes an entire army, I long to have you. Bring us, dear Santa, Bring ' tomorrow, bring Musketeer and Grenadier, Shaggy bear and panther, Horses and donkeys, sheep and bull, Lauter beautiful things. But you know our desire Knowest our hearts. Children, father and mom Also, even the grandfather, All that we are all there, Wait with your pain.

A common paraphrase, in which the lines were removed with the war toys, comes from Hilger Schallehn:

Morning comes Santa Claus, comes with his gifts. Colorful lights, silver trim, Child and crib, sheep and bull, Shaggy bear and panther animal I 'd ' like to have! Take us, dear Santa, bring tomorrow, bring a beautiful railroad, Farm with chicken and rooster a gingerbread man, plenty of nice things.

From some popular songs, especially from those with catchy melodies, the lyrics are rewritten or added; often they are parodies. In a parody of this song Dieter Süverkrüp does not only over the Christmas Consumerism funny, but also criticizes the inadequacy of his view political conditions.

Kindly written permission of Dieter Süverkrüp of 7 December 2013.