Winterreise
Interpretations across two centuries of A Winter's Journey
   

the hurdy-gurdy man

    
  Painting by Pip Wolf Poem/sketch collage Music score fascimile  
 

 
From Franz Schubert & Wilhelm Muller to Robert Lloyd, Julius Drake & Pip Woolf

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Over there,
beyond the village,

a hurdy-gurdy man stands.

grinding away with numbed fingers
as best he can.
. . . . . .

No one wants to hear him,

no one looks at him

and the dogs snarl
about the old man.
. . . . . .

Strange old man –

shall I go with you?

Will you grind your music
to my songs?