Zwei Soldaten, Die

DESCRIPTION: German. "Es war einmal zwei Bauersohn, Die hatten lust in feld zu ziehn." Two brothers go to war, then come home with money. They ask to stay at the inn. The wife suggests they kill one of them. They learn it is their son. The inkeepers commit suicide
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1923 (Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra); reportedly from the seventeenth century
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage soldier food homicide suicide husband wife children
FOUND IN: US(MW)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Rickaby/Dykstra/Leary-PineryBoys-SongsSongcatchingInLumberjackEra 56, "Die Zwei Soldaten" (1 text plus literal English translation, 1 tune)
File: RDL056

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