Ave Maria

Nina Hagen (1989)

This is the last track on Nina Hagen's album Nina Hagen. This is after NunSexMonkRock and Nina Hagen in Ekstasy. This is still one of my favorite Hagen tracks. This melody is Schubert's, I believe, from "Ellen's Third Song," (much better known simply as "Ave Maria"). These lyrics are not Schubert's. I've heard Latin lyrics for "Ave Maria" with this same melody. So did Hagen write these lyrics? Here they are.

Ave Maria
Maria, mein Gesang
Erbittet Dich um Gnade
Für Menschen, die schon solang
Ganz und gar ohne Hoffnung sind
Ganz ohne Hoffnung sind

Siehe dort ihr traurig Dasein
Der Hunger tiefst, der Angst vor dem Tod
Millionen leben hier auf Erden
Immer noch, in allergrößter Not
Ave Maria

Ave Maria
Santa Maria
Erhöre mein Gebet, Maria
So vieles Leid, das schon geschah
Warum kommt immer neues Leid?
Nur neues Leid?

Lass nun die Menschen wieder glauben
Lass sie verstehen und verzeih′n
Dann könnten alle Völker Freunde
Und alle Rassen Brüder sein
Ave Maria

Lass nun die Menschen wieder glauben
Lass sie verstehen und verzeih'n
Dann könnten alle Völker Freunde
Und alle Rassen Brüder sein

Ave Maria

Here's a machine translation into English.

Ave Maria
Mary, my song
Asks you for mercy
For people who have been
Completely without hope for so long
Completely without hope

See their sad existence there
The deepest hunger, the fear of death
Millions live here on earth
Still, in the greatest need
Ave Maria

Ave Maria
Santa Maria
Hear my prayer, Mary
So much suffering that has already happened
Why does new suffering always come?
Just new suffering?

Now let people believe again
Let them understand and forgive
Then all peoples could be friends
And all races could be brothers
Ave Maria

Now let people believe again
Let them understand and forgive
Then all peoples could be friends
And all races could be brothers

Ave Maria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-0s4I2OnAo

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