Fraw Luddeley, fraw Luddeley (Anonymous)
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- Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2017-07-19). Score information: A4, 2 pages, 162 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Semi diplomatoric edition, Modern clefs, ficta added.
General Information
Title: Fraw Luddeley, fraw Luddeley
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong
Language: German
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1540 in Teutsche Liedlein, Book 2, p. 19
Description: A comic song of a man who buy a spinning wheel to his wife.
from: Der ander theil Kurtzweiliger… ausg. G. Forster, 1540
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Original text and translations
German text
FRaw Luddeley, fraw Luddeley/
und warumb spint jr nit/
So hab ich doch kein rocken nit/
du loser bößwicht/
auß gieng der arm man/
bracht der frawen ein rocken hin/
dannoch span sie nit,
dannoch span sie nit.
English translation
Lady Luddeley, lady Luddeley
Why are You not spinning?
I have no spinningwheel
You fool.
And the poor man
went out and fethed his wife a spinningwheel
but still she did not spinn.