Schubert's Winterreise

This somber, beautiful music doesn't quite fit the genre that I do here, but it's an old favorite. It's German, it's melodic, it's popular. I found this version with some horns in it:

Here's one of the songs from the cycle, with German lyrics and English translation:

I like this woman's husky voice and the moody guitar:

im Grunewald ist Holzauktion

Im Grunewald, im Grunewald ist Holzauktion, ist Holzauktion, ist Holzauktion.

Links um die Ecke rum! rechts um die Ecke rum! überall ist große Holzauktion! 

Grunewald is a wooded area on the west side of Berlin. This song (written in 1892) says, there's a wood auction there! To the left, to the right, everywhere, a big wood auction! There are more lyrics, involving a forester, someone kissing his daughter, and police sneaking around in the moonlight, but I can't quite translate the rest.

Here's an oompah version by the Bavarian Strollers, who are actually from the U.K.. This is a too fast for a Schottische, guys!


Goethe Institute is teaching this tune all over the world:


The tune was a favorite of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and he had his Greek hosts learn it when he was visiting in 1908.



Finally, here's one with a computer singing it: