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children's songs):
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This unique website with translated Dutch children's songs and lullabies is a part of the Dutch website In de Overtuin, wich includes three domains:
• Songtexts Dutch and English popular songs: songteksten.overtuin.net
• Dutch traditional folk songs: www.volksliedjes.overtuin.net
• Dutch children's songs: www.kinderliedjes.overtuin.net
Webmaster
The section Children's songs with English translation, was created by Rozemarijn van Leeuwen (The Netherlands).
Rozemarijn has a master in Dutch culture and literature. She worked over three years at the Dutch Folk Songs Archive (project Dutch Song Database) at the Meertens Research Institute, Amsterdam.
Contact
For questions about folk songs and children's songs from Holland
mail to: berichtje <at> rozemarijnonline.net
(change [at] in the sign @ by hand!)
Or leave a message in my Guestbook.
Didn't find the song you were looking for ?
Check the Dutch Folk Song Database (link at bottom this page).
Copyright
English translations of the songs were made by R. van Leeuwen. It's a simple line by line, sometimes word by word translation. The rhyme disappeared, but most translations fit (more or less) on the original music and can be sung.
The sheet music was made by R. van Leeuwen (concerning the sheets with a green title and a reference to kinderliedjes.overtuin.net). Used program: Finale Notepad.
The simple recordings of the melodies (mp3) were made by R. van Leeuwen. Used program: Audiocorder. In 2009 the mp3's were replaced by midi's. Used program: Finale Notepad.
Please don't publish (digital or in print) without permission.
© translation R. van Leeuwen (2007)
© sheet music R. van Leeuwen (2005-06)
© music recordings R. van Leeuwen (2009)
Play music
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You also can click 'Play music' while holding CommandKey (AppleKey).
Selection
The original Dutch website contains over 500 well-known traditional children's songs, nursery rhymes and lullabies. It is the complete collection I learned in my childhood, 1970's and 1980's, at home and at school. The songs I didn't know as a child and recent songs can not be found on my website.
The most famous and popular traditional children's songs are translated in English. All these songs are still sung frequently today in the Netherlands.
In my professional life I did research on children's songs and folk songs for 3 1/2 years. The Dutch Song Database gives 19160 hits if you search on the word 'kinderlied' (children's song). So many more songs, versions and variants exists. This database however only gives the first lines of a song and seldom gives complete lyrics and music.
All texts and melodies on my websites are checked, compared to songtexts in print, on the official copyright website and in the Dutch Song Database and as accurate as possible - but of course variants, sometime several, do exist in traditional songs and folk songs.
'In the Overtuin'
The name of this website, the 'Overtuin', means 'garden on the other side of the road' or 'across the road'. In old days, country houses sometimes were situated along the road (on the front-side) and had a big front garden on the other side of the road.
This was also the case in a small village in the district the Achterhoek (the far east of the Netherlands, in the province Gelderland). Afterwards, houses were built in the site of the garden. The name of that street still is the 'Overtuin'.
Because we did sing all the children's songs, folk songs and popular songs while living in that street, we called our website 'In the Overtuin'.
Link
Like to put a link to this site on your website?
URL: http://www.childrens-songs.overtuin.net/
Content: Dutch children's songs with music and English translations.
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Complete list of all Dutch children's songs
with English translation on this website:
alphabetical list.
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Didn't find the song you were looking for?
Visit our other websites with Dutch songtexts:
Over 3000 Dutch and English songtexts
of well-known songs in The Netherlands:
www.songteksten.overtuin.net
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Or look in
the Dutch Song Database of the Research Centre Dutch Culture
(125.000 Dutch songs in the Folk Songs Archive)
http://www.liederenbank.nl
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