Document Type
Correspondence
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Date
10-19-1953
Keywords
angels, rhyme, Pennsylvania Dutch, midwife, Clinton Haas, Pottstown
Description
A handwritten letter from Esther Moser addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated October 19, 1953. Within, Moser responds to an inquiry made in Shoemaker's radio program and provides a Pennsylvania Dutch rhyme entitled "Schlummer Gabade."
Sender
Esther Moser
Recipient
Alfred L. Shoemaker
Corresponds to:
Packet 410-18
City
Bally, Pennsylvania
Transcription
Bally, Penna.
October 19, 1953
Dear Sir,
You asked on your program yesterday what you call a mitwife in Penna. Dutch. We call it a (obwawradern) around here.
Now do hovich en “Schlummer Gabade”, gricked fun dar Mrs. Clinton Hass fun Pottstown, Pa. era grammem hut’s ols gsunna tsu eera won se noch em bed is ovver tune hut see mer kennar gavva kenna se waes kennar ma. Ich hob noch ne nix so g’heerad dafor we des. Now do is es:
(Over)
Schlummer Gabade
Ovets mon ich schlofa gae
fortza engel mit mer gae
tzwa noch mi kup
tswa noch mi feese
tswa noch mi recht
tswa noch mi linse
tswa fa mich tsu decka
tswa fa mich tsu wecka
un tzwa fa mit mer noch paradise gae.
If it is something I like to hear of the Penna. Dutch it is the rhymes, so many different kinds. I think this is all for this time. When we hear something and which we know the folk lore center can use we sent it in.
So-long
Yours truly,
Esther Moser
Bally, Pa.
Language
English and Pennsylvania German
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Recommended Citation
Moser, Esther, "Letter From Esther Moser to Alfred L. Shoemaker, October 19, 1953" (1953). Alfred L. Shoemaker Folk Cultural Documents. 66.
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/66
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