On 24.06.2014 15:48, Robert Patterson wrote:
> I ran across this quoted passage recently, and I am wondering if it might
> be a well-known nursery-rhyme in the German-speaking world:
>
> Geht, Kinder, nicht ans Wasser 'nan!
> Im Wasser wohnt der Wassermann,
> Der wird hinein euch ziehen,
> Wenn ihr nicht werdet fliehen.

Friedrich Rückert, Kindertotenlieder, but not one of the texts set to 
music by Mahler.

H



>
> If so, is there a perhaps well-known tune that goes with it? Does anyone
> know of a pre-existing English translation? (I can make my own, but someone
> else's might be cleverer.)
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