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English lyrics for “The Hills Are Alive...” (Note: These are the original English lyrics, not a translation of the German. See the literal line-by-line English translation of the German lyrics below.)
Music: Richard Rodgers
English lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II
The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears
My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
that rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over
stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray
I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I’ve heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I’ll sing once more
See the literal line-by-line translation of the German lyrics below:
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A literal line-by-line translation (in gray) of the German lyrics:
Die Täler entlang klingt das Lied der Berge
Along the valleys sounds the song of the mountains
Wie schönster Gesang fern von uns’rer Zeit
Like the most beautiful song far from our time
So tief in mein Herz drängt das Lied der Berge
So deep in my heart penetrates the song of the mountains
Mein Herz möchte singen vor Seligkeit.
My heart would like to sing for bliss
Mein Herz wünscht, ein Vogel zu sein
My heart desires to be a bird
Dessen frohes Lied hoch vom Baume erklingt.
whose joyful song rings high from the tree
Mein Herz möcht’ schlagen wie Glockenklang
My heart would like to pound like the clang of a bell
den der Schall zu mir bringt
that the peal brings to me
und jauchzen vor Fröhlichkeit
and exult for joy
wie ein Bach der von Felsklippe springt.
like a brook springing from a rocky cliff.
Und jubeln so laut wie die Lerche im Äther blau singt.
And rejoice as loudly as the lark singing in the blue ether.
Die Täler entlang klingen meine Lieder
Along the valley my songs ring
Weil Lieder für mich meine Träume sind.
because for me songs are my dreams.
Mein Herz wird beglückt
My heart is made happy
durch das Lied der Berge, das der Wind herweht.
by the song of the mountains, that the wind blows here.
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Note: A different German version of all the SoM lyrics was created for an Austrian revival of the stage production in 2007.
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