Quite a lot of German on this list snip > > 20. Hanspeter Ritterstaedt (Germany) died ~1998. > Was very old, ex-German national leader, I got the flying sutra by him snip Do you remember him singing in Koessen, Tyrol,Austria a adapted version to the tune (Silesian folk songs with melodies)of "Die Gedanken sind frei"including some free (also adapted)rhymes? [;)] Everybody was laughging but he did not mind.Lovely gentleman of old German tradition and ancient school-- with his wig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cwJQlsUf7U <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cwJQlsUf7U>
Die Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten, Sie fliegen vorbei wie nächtliche Schatten. Kein Mensch kann sie wissen, kein Jäger erschießen Mit Pulver und Blei: Die Gedanken sind frei! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bpCfSU1ChM <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bpCfSU1ChM> Thoughts are free, who can guess them? They fly by like nocturnal shadows. No man can know them, no hunter can shoot them, With powder and lead: Thoughts are free! In the 12th century Austrian minnesinger Walther von der Vogelweide (c.1170-1230) wrote: joch sint iedoch gedanke frî ("yet still thoughts are free"), and Dietmar von Aist (presumably) had composed the song Gedanke die sint ledic vrî ("only thoughts are free"). Drum will ich auf immer den Sorgen absagen Und will mich auch nimmer mit Grillen mehr plagen. Man kann ja im Herzen stets lachen und scherzen Und denken dabei: Die Gedanken sind frei! So I will renounce my sorrows forever, And never again torture myself with some fancy ideas. In one's heart, one can always laugh and joke And think at the same time: Thoughts are free!
