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Hope you guys enjoy. This is in my extreme lower range and probably should have sung it up an octave where it would have been much easier, but it wouldn't have the same impact; so here it is in the original key and octave as written for a baritone (not bad for a first alto).


Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja -- Papageno's aria from Die Zauberflöte

The birdcatcher I am indeed,
Always happy, heidi heh hey!
I, the birdcatcher, am well known
To old and young throughout the land.
Know how to get around the bird decoys
And be understood on the fife.
Therefore I can be happy and funny,
For all the birds are indeed mine.

The birdcatcher I am indeed,
Always happy, heidi heh hey!
I, the birdcatcher, am well-known
To old and young throughout the land.
A net for girls is what I would like;
I¹d catch them by the dozen for me!
Then I would lock them up with me
And all the girls would be mine.

If all the girls were mine,
Then I¹d dutifully trade for some sugar.
The one I liked the best,
To her I would immediately give the sugar.
And if she kissed me tenderly then,
She would be my wife and I her husband.
She would fall asleep by my side;
I would rock her to sleep like a child.