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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/17/12 18:53, Fons Adriaensen
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:01:29AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
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<pre wrap="">also he has composed stuff as ...
"Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja,
Stets lustig, heißa hoppsassa!
Ich Vogelfänger bin bekannt
Bei Alt und Jung im ganzen Land."
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Lyrics by Schikaneder, not Mozart. And they are not any more or
less stupid than for example:
Hey joe, where you goin' with that gun of your hand
Hey joe, i said where you goin' with that gun in your hand, oh
I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady
You know i caught her messin' 'round with another man
by Jimi Hendrix.</pre>
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It's not by Hendrix.<br>
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From the Wikipedia page on Hey Joe:<br>
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While claimed by the late <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Rose" title="Tim Rose">Tim
Rose</a> to be a <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_music"
title="Traditional music" class="mw-redirect">traditional song</a>,<sup
id="cite_ref-tim_8-0" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe#cite_note-tim-8"><span></span></a></sup>
or often erroneously attributed to the pen of American <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musician" title="Musician">musician</a>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Powers" title="Chet
Powers">Dino Valenti</a> (who also went by the names Chester or
Chet Powers, and Jesse Farrow), "Hey Joe" was registered for <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a>
in the U.S. in 1962 by <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Roberts" title="Billy
Roberts">Billy Roberts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-franzen_5-2"
class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe#cite_note-franzen-5"><span></span></a></sup>
Scottish folk singer Len Partridge has claimed that he helped write
the song with Roberts when they both performed in clubs in Edinburgh
in 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe#cite_note-9"><span></span><span></span></a></sup>
Other sources (including singer Pat Craig), claim that Roberts
assigned the rights to the song to his friend Valenti while Valenti
was in jail, in order to give him some income upon release.<sup
id="cite_ref-franzen_5-3" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe#cite_note-franzen-5"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><sup
id="cite_ref-fifth_10-0" class="reference"><a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Joe#cite_note-fifth-10"><span></span><span></span></a></sup><br>
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Best,<br>
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dp<br>
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