After Rückert
The day is fine don't be worried, don’t
OK they've just gone for a long walk.
Yes (…) they have just stepped out.
And now they are making their way home.
(...) Now
Don't be worried, the day is fine. Fine.
They have simply made a journey
to the hills. Or (...) just
They have just gone out (...) just now
but they will not be coming home.
We'll go meet them instead
yes on those hills in the sunlight,
the day is fine
on those hills.
Yes (...) yes, yes.
In this weather, in this windy storm,
I would never have sent the children out.
They have been carried off,
I wasn't able!
(whimpers)
In this weather, in this gale,
I would never…never
never (...) have let the children out.
I feared they sickened: those thoughts
In this weather, in this storm, those thoughts
I would never have let the children out,
they might die now (...) pointless this weather.
This weather (...) weather.
In this weather, in this windy storm, those thoughts never
I would never have sent the children out. Never…never
They have been carried off, I wasn't able to warn them!
In this weather, in this gale, in this windy storm
They rest as if in their mother's house.
As if, as if (mumbled)
Frightened by no storm,
sheltered instead by the Hand of Daddy,
(...) the Hand of Daddy!
