“O Tannenbaum (Oh Christmas Tree)”
Description
German Christmas song, known in English as "Oh Christmas Tree." In praise of the evergreen's ability to keep its needles all year long: "O tannenbaum, o tannenbaum, Wie treu sind deine blatter...."
Notes
Ian Bradley, in _The Penguin Book of Carols_, attributes the "O Tannenbaum" words to Ernst Anschutz in 1824, but Fuld offers the 1820 date, and I'm more inclined to trust him. - RBW
Same tune
- Maryland! My Maryland (File: RJ19130)
- Chamber Lye (File: RL659)
- The Kinkaiders (File: San278)
- General Lee's Wooing (File: SBoA233)
- Lutefisk, O Lutefisk (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 20)
- O Tom the Toad (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 50)
- P.S. 52 (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 102)
- National Embalming School (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 125)
- New Mexico, We Love You (Pankake-PHCFSB, p. 251)
- Mule (File: MHAp225)
Cross references
- cf. "Maryland! My Maryland" (tune)
- cf. "Chamber Lye" (tune)
- cf. "The Kinkaiders" (tune)
- cf. "General Lee's Wooing" (tune)
- cf. "Mule" (tune)
References
- Silber-FSWB, p. 374, "Oh Tannenbaum (Oh Christmas Tree)" (1 text)
- Fuld-WFM, pp. 355-357, "Maryland, My Maryland -- (O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum!; Lauriger Horatius)"
- ADDITIONAL: Ian Bradley, _The Penguin Book of Carols_ (1999), #56, "O Tannenbaum" (1 text)
- BI, FSWB374B