Softly - traducere în Germană

Unlike with other Lightfoot songs, I started this effort by looking for a video. I landed on this one right away. It happened to contain the lyrics as well so I saved some time by just cutting and pasting them from there, although this is one song whose lyrics I could have produced from memory. I had to remove the guitar chords, not that I have any objection to them, but that just didn't seem appropriate for this web site. Then I had to add punctuation. What is it with people these days? Is it some new fad of modern poetry that it contains no punctuation? That's not how I was raised. I found only one tiny error in this which I corrected. I am also showing the repeated bit, which is not the case in the source. I didn't even pull the booklet out of the CD. The CD is from a German label named Bear Family Records, BCD 15576. Near as I can tell, the CD was released in 1991. It consists of both of Lightfoot's first two albums, "Lightfoot!" and "The Way I Feel," the former released in January 1966, the latter in early 1967, both of which vinyl records I still own, although I have no idea if they are even playable any more. This song is from the second album. What an amazing album! This song, the Trilogy, Winter's Night . . . Stunning.
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I'll say it over and over. Gordon Lightfoot is a national treasure in Canada. It is impossible to be a bigger star than he is. And that's been true for 50 or so years. He's pretty much on the same level as Maurice Richard.
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Here's the link to his biography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Lightfoot and the link to an article about the album http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_I_Feel_%28Gordon_Lightfoot_album%29.