by Zachris Topelius (1818 - 1898)
Lasse liten
Language: Swedish (Svenska)
Världen är så stor, så stor, Lasse, Lasse liten! Större än du nånsin tror, Lasse, Lasse liten! Det är hett och det är kallt, Lasse, Lasse liten! Men Gud råder överallt, Lasse, Lasse liten! Många mänskor leva där, Lasse, Lasse liten! Lycklig den som Gud har kär, Lasse, Lasse liten! När Guds ängel med dig går, Lasse, Lasse liten! Ingen orm dig bita få, Lasse, Lasse liten! Säg, var trives du nu mest, Lasse, Lasse liten? Borta bra men hemma bäst, Lasse, Lasse liten!
Authorship:
- by Zachris Topelius (1818 - 1898) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Selim Palmgren (1878 - 1951), "Lasse liten" [ men's chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), "Lasse liten", op. 37 no. 2 (1902), published 1906 [ voice and piano ], from Fem sånger, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David McCleery) , "Little Lasse", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Lasse pieni", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Kleiner Lasse", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Ted Perry
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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