<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 04 October 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
=========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span>
<span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">
jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2007.10.04 (01) [D/E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ref: Lantern-songs</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">This is the version I learned as a child and repeated for some hundred times with my own children:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Laterne, Laterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sonne. Mond und Sterne.</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Brenne auf, mein Licht, brenne auf, mein Licht,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">aber nur meine liebe Laterne nicht...</span>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(and from the beginning again)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Extended version from Google:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Laterne, Laterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sonne Mond und Sterne!</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Brenne auf mein Licht,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
brenne auf mein Licht,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">aber nur meine liebe Laterne nicht.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Laterne,Laterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Sonne Mond und Sterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sperrt ihn ein den Wind,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sperrt ihn ein den Wind,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
er soll warten, bis wir zu Hause sind,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Laterne,Laterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sonne Mond und Sterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Laterne,Laterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sonne Mond und Sterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">bleibe hell mein Licht,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
bleibe hell mein Licht,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">denn sonst strahlt meine liebe Laterne nicht.</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Laterne,Laterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sonne Mond und Sterne...
</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Another very famous song:</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ich geh mit meiner Laterne</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
und meine Laterne mit mir.</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dort oben leuchten die Sterne,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">hier unten, da leuchten wir.</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Mein Licht geht aus,</span><br style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">wir geh'n nach Haus.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">La bimmel, la bammel, la bumm.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I haven't heard about any Low-Saxon influenced 'lantern'-songs at all in our region, because its origin isn't LS, as I think. And we weren't told anything about any catholic St. Martin but that the origin of this custom was the battle of Sedan at 1st/2nd of September, 1870.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But, yes- even here it's tried to be shifted to St. Martin in our days- otherwise it could smell of some revanchism...</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">BTW: St. Martin's day is at the 11th of November- too wet, too cold, too stormy in our coastal marshlands to make still a church parade...
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Allerbest!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jonny Meibohm</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">From: R. F. Hahn <
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Traditions<br><br>Thanks, Jonny.<br><br>Yes, those tend to be songs without end ...<br><br>I do know the second song also. Though we sang the fifth line like this:<br><br></font><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Mein Licht ist aus,<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">We didn't refer to St. Martin either. Only our then small Roman Catholic minority did (especially those with roots in Poznan, Poland).
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">We didn't refer to St. Martin either. Interestingly, they did in nearby Olland (Altes Land, part of which belongs to Hamburg). (
</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://lowlands-l.net/clara/martinsdag.htm">lowlands-l.net/clara/martinsdag.htm</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">) I wonder if this is because the founders of the settlement had immigrated from "Holland."
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Martinmas did survive in some Protestant-dominated areas of Europe. It's quite a big deal in Estonia (
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mardipäev</span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> "Martin Day"). This may be because it contains some pre-Christian Balto-Finnic harvest festivals and the Day of the Dead elements.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Kumpelmenten,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">