Thank you all for taking the time to listen and comment!

Excellent

Enjoyed your playing and singing Peter. So glad you are sharing your music and folk songs with us.

BJ

Peter, wonderful!!! I'm beginning to be a fan of German folk songs . I don't speak or understand German but it sounds very pretty. Thank you for sharing

Enjoyed the vocals especially--thanks for posting

I've got a week of holiday - and as during the last weeks, it is still rainy and tooooo cold for the season in Germany! A reason to lament and complain? No!
But a great opportunity to write down some tabs and record a few songs!

So here is famous German folk song, especially famous among male choirs. The title can be translated as "Come on, let's sing!" In Germany, it is also known by the first line "Hab' oft im Kreise der Lieben [im duftigen Grase geruht und mir ein Liedchen gesungen, und alles war wieder gut!" (that's about: "How often have I rested together with my loved ones, and when I started to sing, everything was fine again").
Lyrics by Adalbert von Chamisso (1829), music by Friedrich Silcher (1839). It's about the consoling and soothing effect music and singing has on us. It encourages us, not to lament and complain, but to sing with others instead and go ahead and look at the good aspects of life.

I'll also upload the tabs (finger picking instrumental) for it in the tabs section of the forum in a few minutes.

The lyrics (written by Chamisso in 1829) are:

1. Hab' oft im Kreise der Lieben
Im duftigen Grase geruht
|: Und mir ein Liedchen gesungen,
Und alles war hbsch und gut, :|
Und alles, alles,
Und alles war hbsch und gut.

2. Hab' einsam auch mich gehrmet
In langem, dsterem Mut
|: Und habe wieder gesungen,
Und alles war wieder gut, :|
Und alles, alles,
Und alles war wieder gut.

3. Und manches, was ich erfahren,
Verkocht' ich in stiller Wut,
|: Und kam ich wieder zu singen,
War alles auch weider gut, :|
War alles, alles,
War alles auch wieder gut.

4. Sollst uns nicht lange klagen,
Was alles dir wehe tut.
|: Nur frisch, nur frisch gesungen,
Und alles wird wieder gut, :|
Und alles, alles
Und alles wird wieder gut.