Wagner only ever wrote one opera (maybe he felt music was more expressive than words) but had he gone on to write another, the following songs might have been included.
The following verses are intro's to well known (not necessarily good) songs - can you name them? This would be a might easy except for the fact that they are written as Wagner would have written them.
I've done the hardest part, translated them to English, but my German grammar is poor and they all seem a little wordy. You will need to decipher each line
(although sometimes just one line is a give-away) and -
name that song!
If you think you know the name of a song, select the lyric number at the base of this page and type the song title in the GUESS box and press return.
If you're stuck for the answer and it is beginning to bug you then you might want to give in. So click the button marked 'GIVE IN !' (well that makes sense) and the name of the song and the artist will appear in the REPLY box.
GOOD LUCK!
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Mother, very recently thy did execute someone. Rested a pistol to thine skull, Let thy catch off, He lives no more. |
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Thomas did work at the ship-yard, But confederates did protest, He is low on good fortune, Life is hard, very hard. |
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Only a skint lad is thy, But rarely does my tale pass peoples lips. Thy did waste my withstanding, By way of a pouch of utterings which form pledges. |
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Turn on thou's combustion engine, Place thouself upon the largest of roads. Searching for risky business, And all that approaches us also. |
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Pardon-thy
Grace thine ears with thou's desires,
thou's utmost, utmost desires.
Refrain thou-self from gracing thine ears with thou's desires,
thou's utmost, utmost desires.
Thy shall grace thee's ears with thine desires,
thine utmost, utmost desires.
That what thy mostly, mostly, mostly desires is a
sharply-wandering-route-a-sharply-wandering-route-ah.
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Upon retrospection of thine existance, Every time thy feels guilt overcoming thyself, At all times, the fault is placed upon thyself. |
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