This is a new interpretation of the famous communistic "Internationale", changing the focus from "peoples" to "individuals" - which deems more appropriate in our times.

The new song text is written in German, with an English non-rhyming translation given below.

Singer & guitarist: Anne Schnitzler
Text & accompanying instruments: Petra Roosen

=== German song text: ===

Wacht auf, ihr Menschen dieser Erde,
die stets von Fremden dirigiert.
Folgt nicht der Mächtigen Gebärde,
die zum Hassen animiert.

Immer wurdet ihr vorangetrieben
zu tun, was Führern Ruhm nur bringt.
Doch diesen ist es gar nicht wichtig,
wenn ihr danach ins Elend sinkt.

|: Menschen, {seht/hört} die Signale!
Stoppt zu tun, wie euch gesagt!
Denn jede Order hat zurecht verdient,
dass ihr sie hinterfragt. :|


Es hilft uns nicht ein höh’res Wesen,
kein Führer, Kaiser oder Gott
Uns aus dem Jammer zu erlösen,
dass unsere Seelen gehn bankrott.
Leere Worte: Wir sind nur im Rechte,
Wir tun nur die heil'ge Pflicht!
Ihr seid dabei der Führer Knechte,
Und nur bei euch liegt der Verzicht!

|: Menschen, {seht/hört} die Signale!
Stoppt zu tun, wie euch gesagt!
Denn jede Nachricht hat zurecht verdient,
dass ihr sie hinterfragt. :|


Beginnt, selbständig mit zu denken,
doch achtet drauf, wer euch was sagt.
Gar viele trachten, euch zu lenken,
woll'n nicht, dass man sie hinterfragt.
Hütet euch vor solchen Rattenfängern,
die Fakten werden gern verdreht.
In ihrem Sinne sie verändern,
damit für sie die Straße bebt.

Menschen, denkt bitte selber!
Stoppt zu tun, wie euch gesagt!
Denn jede Ansicht hat zurecht verdient,
dass ihr sie hinterfragt.

Menschen, denkt bitte selber!
Tut nicht nur, wie euch gesagt!
Denn letztlich ist es eure eig'ne Haut,
die ihr zum Markte tragt.


=== English, non-rhyming translation: ===

Wake up, people of this earth,
always directed by persons not of your kind.
Do not follow the powerful patriarch's gesture,
which animates to hate.

You have always been pushed forward
to do whatever brings glory to leaders.
But it is not important to them
if afterwards you sink into misery.

|: People, {see / hear} the signals!
Stop doing as you guys are told!
Because every order rightly deserves
that you question it. : |


A higher being doesn't help us
no leader, emperor or god
To save us from the misery
of our souls going bankrupt.
Empty words: only we are in the right
We only do our sacred duty!
You are the leaders' servants,
And it is only you who sacrifice!

|: People, {see / hear} the signals!
Stop doing as you guys are told!
Because every message rightly deserves
that you question it. : |


Starts to think independently
but pay attention to who is telling you what.
Many people seek to guide you
don't want to be questioned.
Beware of such pied pipers
who like to twist the facts.
Change the facts in their own way,
so that the road throbs for them.

People, please think for yourself!
Stop doing as you are told!
Because every view rightly deserves
that you question it.

People, please think for yourself!
Don't just do as you are told!
Because in the end it is your own skin
that you carry to the market.

===

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Wacht auf, ihr Menschen dieser Erde (the communistic "International" revisited, German text)

Ein mehrstimmiges Arrangement des bekannten englischen Volksliedes. Arrangiert von T. Nespethal.

Scarborough Fair

Stretching my singing style to try and churn out an ABBA Song from 1979.

Lyrics:
You and I can share the silence
Finding comfort together
The way old friends do
And after fights and words of violence
We make up with each other
The way old friends do
Times of joy and times of sorrow
We will always see it through
Oh I don't care what comes tomorrow
We can face it together
The way old friends do

You and I can share the silence
Finding comfort together
The way old friends do
And after fights and words of violence
We make up with each other
The way old friends do
Times of joy and times of sorrow
We will always see it through
Oh I don't care what comes tomorrow
We can face it together
The way old friends do

We can face it together
The way old friends do

The Way Old Friends Do - ABBA Acoustic Guitar Cover

"no place i'd rather be" by clean bandit strings and synth parts played in one live take, no overdubs, with a yamaha wx5 and reaper laptop.

that is to say i can play this live and it sounds like this by using reaper routing to several vsti's thru a midi note mapper/orchestrator/harmonizer called midichords by insert piz here.

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Es ist an der Zeit

gespielt von Manfred Weichselfelder, Chromatische Mundharmonika, 
Originalkomposition von Vittorio Monti,
Wiedergabe mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Manfred

Manfred Weichselfelder -  Czardas Intermezzo

gespielt von Manfred Weichselfelder, Chromatische Mundharmonika,
Komposition: Franz Schubert,
Wiedergabe mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Manfred

Manfred Weichselfelder -  Serenade

If you look for a flawlessly playing music professional: Look somewhere else!  :-)

I'm just a hobby EWI player who explores her electronic instrument by and by, and will release some home-brewn multi-tracks eventually. I do this for fun, not for money.

Most of the tracks are created by overdubbing (sequential recording of the parts), but some are recorded with other musicians. Respective hints are given in the extended annotations of the indivdual pieces.

My equipment: EWI-USB, DynaSample XPression, Samson Expedition Express (even though most of the soundtracks published here were be sampled directly by line-in as far as my contribution is concerned).

Wacht auf, ihr Menschen dieser Erde (the communistic "International" revisited, German text)

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