Sinterklaas Song

A sinterklaas song is a song that is sung in leading up to and during the sinterklaas celebration. Especially children singing for St. Nicholas during the entry, on a visit of the Saint (to, for example, school or in stores), when putting their shoe and at the beginning of pakjesavond.

Although the songs nowadays in books and on sound recordings (LPs, CDs) and to hear on radio and tv, they are passed on orally in the first place (of (Grand) parent to child, by older children on younger children and of teachers on school children) and they are still active in the tradition of the singing practice.

The oldest songs about St. Nicholas who in song bundles have been preserved, dating from the sixteenth century. [1]  it comes initially in particular to Saints songs about theHoly Bishop Nicholas of Myra. The classic songs that are traditionally sung in the twenty-first century, the vast majority go back on the 19th and the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to some folk songs from the oral tradition, it is going to be songs by lyricists as J.P. Hagemann, Jan Schenkman, Katharina Leopold, Simon Abramsz,Antoinette van Dijk and Herman broekhuizen.



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[hide] *1 the singing of sinterklaas songs  ==The singing of sinterklaas songs[ Edit] == Arrival Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet (in: j. Schenkman, St. Nicholas and his servant, 1905).Entry Sint and Piet (in: j. Schenkman, St. Nicholas and his servant, 1905).Three children put their shoe for the fireplace and sing a sinterklaas song (in: Hopsasa: knee-and baker tunes from the old box, 1873).The singing of sinterklaas songs is one of the traditions that are connected with the folk Saint-Nicholas party. Several dozen songs are already about a hundred to nearly two hundred years and thus give the party for generations, thanks in part to the form, content and atmosphere. Along with traditional children's songs and St Martin's songsinclude the sinterklaas songs to the best preserved Dutch song culture. They belong to the few song culture that still characterized by active singing practice (since the rise of music on the radio or on sound carriers).
 * 2 songs about St. Nicholas through the ages
 * sixteenth and seventeenth century 2.1
 * 2.2 eighteenth century
 * 2.3 nineteenth century
 * 2.4 twentieth and twenty-first century
 * 3 well known sinterklaas songs from the 19th and 20th centuries
 * 4 Sinterklaas songs from radio and tv
 * 5 external links
 * 6 Sources
 * 7 Literature
 * 8 song booklets Listed
 * 9 footnotes

There are some times in the sinterklaas time lend itself particularly for the singing of sinterklaas songs: the entry, putting the shoe and pakjesavond.

These days, Santa Claus about three weeks before his feast day (december 6) in Netherlands and Belgium to. Both at the local and at the many rural entry be intochten, Saint-Nicolas and Zwarte Piet serenaded by the children they are waiting. Several traditional songs go over the arrival of Sinterklaas, as ' There is a steam boat arrived/all about the great sea ' (ca. 1925)[2] ; ' He's coming, he's coming/that sweet good Sint ' (k. Leopold, 1898); and ' behold, yonder comes the Steamboat/from Spain back to ' (j. Schenkman, ca. 1850).

In the weeks that St is in the country, children one or a few times in the evening, for example, their shoe put in the fireplace, the stove, under the mail box or under a window.They leave it for the horse a carrot or hay behind sometimes, or a drawing for najlaa, and sing some sinterklaas songs. Traditionally, this happened for the fireplace, making the songs through the chimney onto the roof would sound, where St. Nicholas the might hear. The next day the children find some treats or a small gift in their shoe. The use of put the shoe goes back until at least the fifteenth century, when the Church put their shoe in poor and wealthy citizens that stopped there money in under the arms was divided. [3]  starting in the seventeenth century folk songs to putting the shoe referred (including leaving hay and the sound of the song through the chimney). [4]  also under the current known songs there are song texts that refer to the shoe, including putting ' Saint Nicholas's birthday, ' k put my shoe ready ' (w. oostveen, ca. 1925)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-almoes_2-1" len="174" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2] ; ' Sinterklaas kapoentje/throw some in my shoe ' (orally handed down folk song); and ' O, come there let's see/what I find in my shoe ' (k. Leopold, 1898).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In Netherlands finds pakjesavond usually take place on 5 december, on the eve of Nicholas ' name day on 6 december. While the children wait until the packets arrive, they can sing a lot of sinterklaas songs. Songs that refer to pakjesavond, include: ' see the moon shines through the trees/mates cease your wild geraas ' (J.P. Hagemann, 1843);and ' hear the wind blowing through the trees/here in house even blowing winds ' (ca. 1925).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-almoes_2-2" len="174" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2]  After extract the gifts can be closed with ' Day Sinter klaasje/day, day ' (a. van Dijk, 1926),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pelt_5-0" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]  and, on the same tune, ' thank Sinter klaasje/thanks, thanks '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After pakjesavond disappear najlaa generally unnoticed back to Spain, leaving in Netherlands on the actual name day of Saint Nicholas, december 6, usually no Santa Claus songs are sung more. On the other hand, in Belgium it is common to have packs to celebrate morning. That usually takes place on the morning of 6 december.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">An overview of all these songs can be found at the bottom of this article. ==Songs about St. Nicholas through the ages<span class="mw-editsection" len="369" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == Jan Steen, Saint-Nicholas party(between 1670 and 1675).John Pintard, Saint Nicholas (1810).With English translation of the folk song ' Sancte Claus good Hale Man '.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The oldest preserved songs around St. Nicholas ' tribes such as reported from the sixteenth century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-zestiendeeeuw_1-1" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  In the course of the centuries change the themes in the songs, with which the songs reflect changes in the Saint-Nicholas party.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [6]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Until the seventeenth century Saints songs carry the overtone, about life, the good deeds and the miracles of Saint Nicholas from Myra in Lycia (the southwest of present-day Turkey). In addition all in this century, there are a handful of songs about St. Nicholas as a marriage maker. This genre is widespread in the eighteenth century. In these lyrics, often love complaints or farce songs, the Holy to a marriage partner asked. In the nineteenth century, the popularity of this topic and there was interest in collecting traditionalfolk songs, children's songs and often short children's rumble, which (possibly for decades, or the precursors of it even longer) were handed down orally and now were recorded. In addition there were in the 19th and 20th centuries many new songs written, some tens to have remained in the twenty-first century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-liederenbanksint_7-0" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Over the centuries many songs refer to parts of the Saint-Nicholas party. So is there already in the seventeenth century in song lyrics refer to giving gifts and treats (candy,marzipan, sweet cake (from the first half of the eighteenth century speculoos))<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-geschenken_8-0" len="178" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]  and to putting the shoe.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-schoen_4-1" len="174" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  In the eighteenth century is mentioned that there are hay and water at the shoe is left behind for Sinterklaas ' horse.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-schoen_4-2" len="174" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]  it is also a book that rhymes in the nineteenth century new parts of the Saint-Nicholas party has spread widely: the origin of the Saint from Spain, the arrival with the steam boat, followed by a festive entry, and a black page as servant, first appeared in print in the children's book with rhymes St. Nicholas and his servant Jan Schenkman 's from 1850.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-piet_9-0" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [9]

<p lang="en" len="114" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The topics outlined below per century will be illustrated by examples from songs. ===Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The oldest songs about Saint Nicholas in the Dutch song database of the Meertens Institute, from the 16th century and 17th century, are mostly Saints songs. From the 17th century are a fourteen songs about St. Nicholas can be found in the song database, where the value of the four cases is going to be a wedding-or burlesque song. In about a third of this 17th-century songs is to use around the Saint-Nicholas party referred.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-liederenbanksint_7-1" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Saints songs are life, the virtues and miracles of Saint Nicholas sometimes described. In the final sixteenth-century song ' Danny us glad sijn on desen dach/godt rave with joyful should ' (with the title: ' Den sesten December. Sint Nicolaes Bishop ', 1582), is told that St. Nicholas ' girls and being helped, occurred against heretics and virtues stood for as sobriety and mildness.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [10]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In ' O ' Jhesu, bruydegom Saidi (1614) describes that Nicholas in Patharas in Lycia was born, lived, many pure fasted and prayed and gave alms. He pitched three times secretly money at the home of three sisters, whereby they could marry Honorable. Later he became Bishop in Myra.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [11]  also in ' Eerweerdighe Prelaet' St. Nicolas (1634) is the anecdote of the three poor sisters recounted:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[12]


 * Soo h Sint Nicolaes had this verstaen,
 * tselve huys gegaen is hy by night after ',
 * threw, the window in, a knoppeldoeck with gout,
 * Waer is a daughter by those gehout.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In several songs, such as "Compt children bly, nae d'ouwe seeden ' (1644) is Nicholas the servant of God called: ' Den waerden man den milden Nicolaes/the Lord's servant, ' den vrundt of Godt.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [13]  The Saints song ' My soul, Mr verstercken ' ô tongh, want to present soo (1659) mentions again that Nicholas fasted two days a week as a young child, pure lived, without women, and bath. When he money inherited from his parents, he shared out to the poor. Once ordained, he came as a boat trip for a storm. When the bosun from the mast fell and died, Nicholas woke him back to life. Also his election to Bishop of Myra is described here.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [14]  the song ' Wy vroolijckheyd Saint Nicolaus celebrate now with Party ' (1664) mentions that Nicholas not only gold and silver gave the poor, but also clothes gave away.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [15]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to these Saints songs (spiritual songs) there are also some secular songs from this period: two wedding songs, a song and a burlesque song. All four of these refer to the role of St. Nicholas ' as ' heylikman ' or ' hijlikmaker ' (wedding maker): baden to the Holy people to a marriage partner.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [16]  this was a habit that, was that young men in the sinterklaas time a heart of sugar or marzipan or a decorated gingerbread man (a "freer") to the girl gave that they wanted to win for itself. In the lyrics, often farce songs, sometimes with ambiguous texts, is Saint asked for instead of regular gifts to bring a possible marriage partner.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The most widespread secular song is the farce song ' Sinterklaas, O heil'ge Man/hear my prayer and my beg ' (under the title ' Vryster-bee to Sint Niklaas ') by h. Zweerds, that was first printed in The Olipodrigo (1654). It is well into the 19th century in seven other song books included.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [17]  In the song asks a female I-figure not to treat or toy, but to a freer:


 * Not to Soetekoek or Vygen,
 * Or to Kinders Palmer-good,
 * Let my but get a Freer

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She has always gotten everything her heart coveted of the Saint, dangling earrings, a gold needle or a nose cloth with lace. Now she wants to ' a good Mans child ', who do not gamble or drink and that to honor his wife know. If they get a son, she will call him Claasje.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This song also refers clearly to use around the then Saint-Nicholas party: getting presents and delicacies. In the song ' Compt children bly, nae d'ouwe seeden ' (1644) is also called: ' putting the shoe nichjens shoe neefjens's now wert/Liberael vervuldt '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [18]  the song then calls on to give to the poor:


 * Gives gelt, and gifts with mild hands,
 * Gives Kalam, shoes, winter is after by,
 * Gives costs, and to pledge to Kadett, Godt
 * Gives wool, gives webb ': aen that are in ly.

===Eighteenth century<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === The Nicolaï Church or Nicholas Church in Utrecht. Jan Hendrick Verheijen, The Nicolaï Church (19th century).<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Dutch song bank has 18 songs about St. Nicholas who first appeared in the eighteenth century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-liederenbanksint_7-2" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]  In some songs, the Saint mentioned only, such as in a list of Saints, or as indicating what day it is. Also, in some songs about King William II (1792-1849) to Sinterklaas referred, because Walker birthday on 6 december fell (the name day of Nicholas on the calendar of Saints).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The number of new Saints songs about Nicolaas is this century limited. An example is ' Danny us with Joys though, and Gandhi Worship/Praise the Holy Nicolaes ' (1757).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [19] In another song is criticised the celebration of St. Nicholas: ' give us, ô Goude Sinte-kad! /A statement that us heught ' (1732). The Saints Feast is too superficial, too little religious. Of course children grateful as they occasionally received a gift from their parents. But it would not be necessary to stay on the track ' to ':


 * Brenght ' nothing there more blessing aen,
 * Then pray that one learns,
 * And that one vlytigh school wants to walk barefoot '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This is according to the song devoid of content, it is ' bedrogh ' P-gesuyckert.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [20]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Just as in the seventeenth century now also refer some songs (about half) to Sinterklaas as wedding maker: love songs, love songs complaints and farce. In the song ' That Sinterklaes, that ancients baes,/should run for Saint Felten ' (Saint Valentine) (1712) is St. Nicholas ' associated with St Valentine (his feast day is the day of lovers): now Nicholas the one for a loved one should take care. As a child got the I-person in the song gifts (Spanish clicks, new kahar, ice skating, ribbons and a sledge) and St. Nicholas was his friend. Now he wants to ' a really nice person and girl ', preferably not bossy, without hump and wrinkles, and not to drink addicted-but now drives Sinterklaas gestaeg over ' him '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [21]  In the threnody,/now ' Christian Saint Nabi has haer deer wish got ' (1718) wants the female I-figure like Trijntje a man, if only a soldier. They don't want any ' Vygen and cake ' or ' apples of Oranjen ' (oranges):


 * I said other ' zoetigheyd
 * Als'er in the Salih leyd '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">She wants to be a man and get married, otherwise she will hartezeer die. And as ' Sinter Claes ' it doesn't do, ' I wish him that all the soot/uyt d'Schoorsteen Falls on syn Snoot '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [22]  In the song ' Sint Nicolaes,/Who recently ran the lant by ghosts ' (1745) is the male I-figure in the middle of the night by Saint Nicholas visited. This opens its bedgordijnen and brings him a beautiful, young woman. The next day, however, turns out to have been only a dream.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [23]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the songs from this century is controlled referred to parts from the Saint-Nicholas party. Some more detailed descriptions can be found in the 10 couplets of the sinterklaas song ' what is ' to see all entertainment and Davidson, there/on Klaas ' Davies-(1741). The sinterklaas time is the most pleasant time of the year. Sold in stalls is everything: bread, cake and pastry, pastries, sugar Palm well, silver, and so on. House fathers and their wives buy to their purse is empty and make their children happy.


 * Gy sees how that zy stocking and Shoe
 * Hang up, believe laas!
 * With Hooy and Water Service to do,
 * To the horse by Davies-Klaas

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The second half of the song is dedicated to loved ones. It is recommended that the ' Jafri ' there ' with ' the Maddox on going out and a hair plug, needle or sweet cake for her to buy. They may hope to make friendship, a kiss or even her virginity for getting back. The sinterklaas time ' Helps many Meysje to the Man,/and the Jong mans to Maddox '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [24] ===Nineteenth century<span class="mw-editsection" len="338" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Appear in the second half of the nineteenth century there are many children's songs, short, simple sinterklaas songs, in print. These folk songs can be much older and have been passed down by oral tradition for a long time, but were by the interest in popular culture during the romantic period in the second half of the nineteenth century for the first time recorded. Some of these folk songs are still sung in the twenty-first century. Also gave lyricists as J.P. Hagemann, Jan Schenkman and Katharina Leopold in this period songs from, some of which remained in the twenty-first century tens to.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Real Saints songs, about the life of Saint Nicholas, no longer in the nineteenth century. Also the references to St Nicholas take very much as wedding maker. In the first half of this century there seem to be few new sinterklaas songs to appear-the song database has only one of these 50 years<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-liederenbanksint_7-3" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]  : ' O Saint Nicholas good holy man,/Wy sing until your honor ' (1802). Jong or old, rich or poor, servant, Maid, citizen or Lord, everyone brings his shoe. Young men kissing each other and the children sing for ' Klaasje with zyn horse ' before they go to bed.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [25]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the middle of the nineteenth century producing interest in folk songs with Saint Nicholas as its subject. The magazine Wodana<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[26]  the first prints in 1843 a typical folk song off, the nursery rhyme:


 * Sinte Nicolaes, noble b,
 * brings some in my shoe,
 * a bone or a Bret (...)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The magazine mentions The Navorscher from 1851 five children's tunes: ' Sinte Nabavi Bishop! goet heylich man,/Walker what in my shoe GA, Godt pays you then ' (under the title ' St. Nicholas-song of 1658 '); ' Sint Niklaas good holy man! /Puff best tabbert an '; ' Sint Niklaas! Bonne, bonne, bonne, throw some in the empty/tonne '; ' Sint Niklaas, that's a boss/For kind'ren and for men '; and ' Sint Niklaas, kapoentje! /Lay what in my shoe '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-liederenbanksint_7-4" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also some song books in this period above and other short folk songs, such as: h. Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Niederländische Volkslieder (Horae Belgicae II, 1856); J.j.a. Governor, children's tunes and lullabies(ca. 1870-1880); W. Dykstra, In doaze fol alde snypsnaren (1882); and j. van Vloten, Nederlandsche baker and children's rhymes (1894). Also songs below as ' Saint Kabir, which good Lord,/who comes with his horses all years/his chariot '; ' Spilet yn Dy all huzen the Sinte Kad/b '; ' Saint Nicolas,/Die speult den boss ' and ' Saint Nicolas Bishop, well holy man,/would you like to give ' what in my shoe.

<p lang="en" len="265" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition to these folk songs from the oral tradition, there appear from the second half of the nineteenth century a large number of liedboekjes, from which kinderlied booklets and several dozen songs to sinterklaas in the twenty-first century very well known and loved remained.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1845, appeared in a booklet with children's songs, the sinterklaas song ' See, the Moon shining through the trees,/Mates! cease your wild geraas ', written by J.P. Hagemann and with music by J.J. Viotta.Sinterklaas evening has arrived, looking forward to the children the gifts (a Harlequin) and sweets (candy and marzipan). Children who have been, get sweet cake, if not then they get a gard (a Rod).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [27]


 * 't avendje Delicious has come,
 * 't Avendje of Saint Niclaas!
 * Of expectation is our heart,
 * Who gets the cake, who the gard!

Saint Nicholas and his page (in: j. Schenkman, St. Nicholas and his servant, 1850). Oldest images of Saint helper.Saint with his servant on the roof (in: j. Schenkman, St. Nicholas and his servant, 1850).<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The children's book appeared in 1850 Saint Nicholas and his servant of the Amsterdam teacher Jan Schenkman. This included the text of the sinterklaas song ' behold, yonder comes the Steamboat/From Spain again! '. In this book for the first time in pressure let Schenkman Sint Nicolaas arrive with a steamer, he comes from Spain and has the Saint a Black Knight as Sidekick:<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[28] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-piet_9-1" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]


 * His servant is to laugh,
 * And calls us already:
 * ' Who was sweet, gets goodies;
 * Who was a stout roê '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1856 the same Jan Schenkman writes a song for the arrival of Sinterklaas in Amsterdam: ' Reverend Bishop Nicholas! /Forgive us that we the vehicle's (with the title: ' offered by a large number of citizen children Saint Nicholas (...). Humorous close piece '). The children are afraid that there will be no gifts this year, even if they leave their songs sound through the chimney. The song appeared on a broadside.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [29]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the very end of the nineteenth century, in 1898, gave the Groningen school teacher song booklet with 12 Katharina Leopold a sinterklaas songs on existing melodies from.Of this got some widely known, including ' O, come there let's see/what I find in my shoe '<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-30" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[30] ; ' Guys you've all heard of/tralalali, tiralalala '; ' Sinterklaas, says tired/loves sweet, says tired '; and ' he's coming, he's coming/that sweet good Sint '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [31] ===Twentieth and twenty-first century<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Around 1900-1930 were there, building on the second half of the nineteenth century, many folk songs from the oral tradition collected. The three large song collections of short children's songs that contain dozens of decades and children's booming for the sinterklaas feast: the Handwriting collection of folk and children's songs by Nynke van Hichtum (1904-1938); the Realinus's Collection Donders Donders (1923); and the Collection Boekenoogen lead by G.J. Boekenoogen (1891-1930). In addition to the aforementioned children's songs as ' Sinter klaasje bonne bonne bonne '; ' Sinterklaas good Hafez '; and they also mention ' Sinterklaas kapoentje ' short children's songs like, "Sint Nicolaas good-tempered blood/give me a bump with candy '; ' Sinter klaasje, Bishop,/put your hooge Hat even on '; ' Sinterklaas, which brave man/brings the kids what he can '; ' Sint Niklaas my good friend/I have so long served to you '; ' Saint Nicholas comes to the bridge/with a reistasch on his back '; ' Sint Nicolaas is yet should a treasure;/Picture evening he brings what '; ' St. Nicholas, come quickly/there of that chimney off '; ' Saint Nicholas's birthday/O! What are we happy '; ' Sinterklaas sat in the corner/With a Gandhi gingerbread '.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-liederenbanksint_7-5" len="184" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [7]

<p lang="en" len="722" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In addition appeared there in the first half of the twentieth century is still a lot of song booklets for children, already took the meaning of the song book with the rise of radio and the lp from the ' 20s and ' 30s slowly but surely do wonder.

Sinterklaas throws treats down the chimney (in: j. Schenkman, St. Nicholas and his servant, approx. 1907).<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Amsterdam teacher Simon Abramsz published songs like ' on the high, high roofs/drives the Bishop with his servant ' and ' Gently go the paardevoetjes/tripple tripple trappel trap ' (1911). And singer and radio presenter Antoinette van Dijk brought songs like ' Please join us today in our midst/see, your seat is already ready ' and ' Five december, five december/ha, that's the joyful day ' (ca. 1926).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pelt_5-1" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]  In this early 20th-century songs is Sinterklaas always be accompanied and aided by his servant Zwarte Piet.For instance in Abramsz ' ' on the high, high roofs ':


 * Pieter peeks through each chimney
 * and he reports the good Sint
 * that patient is waiting
 * each disobedient child.
 * See all smart Piet
 * are wrong he can't.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">To the anniversary of St. Nicholas (which strictly speaking are death anniversary and so his assumption is remembered) is several times referred to as his "birthday", such as "Saint Nicholas's birthday/' k put my shoe ready ' (W.F. oostveen, ca. 1925)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-almoes_2-3" len="174" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]  and ' five december, five december/ha, that's the joyful day ' (Antoinette van Dijk, ca. 1926):<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-pelt_5-2" len="172" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] 'cause Santa Claus's birthday/and who calls not loud: "Hooray!" '.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Herman broekhuizen wrote many children's songs for the radio program for preschoolers Kafor, listen (1946-1975). Also sinterklaas songs like ' Piet has eaten of the gingerbread cookies '; ' Zwarte Piet, wiede wiede weed/I hear you, but I see you not '; and ' Black Buck/what let you scare me again ' are by his hand. It is particularly Zwarte Piet in the Center, seen through the eyes of preschoolers (or sometimes toddler behavior mirror), which can identify themselves in Piet:


 * Piet has cycled on the children's bikes
 * Piet has played with the toy train
 * Pietertje wanted so dearly love play Soot
 * Piet was going when the kids are.

<p lang="en" len="189" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">This Middle twentieth-century nursery songs are part of the latest songs that were included in the collection of traditional sinterklaas songs, which are sung on the calibrated moments.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In all (mostly 20th century) classical sinterklaas songs in which a servant of Saint Nicholas is mentioned, it's going to be one servant, sometimes without attribution, he is usually referred to as Piet or Zwarte Piet.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-32" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [32]  Zwarte Piet refers in the sinterklaas songs so always go to an individual. In the songs is Piet the one who listens or the kids naughty or cute, intersperses with gingerbread cookies, sometimes carries a bag with gifts, and gifts for long periods. Rhymes in the book by Jan Schenkman he wears Sinterklaas ' money box.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-33" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [33]  that St comes with a large group of helpers, which collectively, as a collective, are referred to as "Black Peter", is particularly at intochten after the second world war and in television broadcasts in vogue and hardly to traditional sinterklaas songs penetrated.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-34" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [34]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Starting from introduction of the LP in the late 1940s were sinterklaas songs also released on lp and later cd, usually performed by a children's choir. Among other well-known children's choirs as the Leiden Keys, the Schellebellen, the Damrakkertjes, the Reedwarbler and children's choir Jacob Hamel gave one or several gramophone records with sinterklaas songs from.

Sint and Piet stop naughty children in the bag (in: j. Schenkman, St. Nicholas and his servant, approx. 1885).<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In a few song books were the original texts of sinterklaas songs adapted, for example, outdated word usage or to adjust to the time gifts listed. Also sometimes the roe (a stick or bundle twigs), the paste (a stick with a flat disc), or coupletjes with the threat to naughty children in the bag take them to Spain omitted or changed. In some cases it was later also inflected according to the name ' black ' from the name Zwarte Piet omitted and his role as servant at Saint Nicholas from some songs written.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-35" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [35]  Other song booklets followed precisely the original lyrics, as they are written at the time by the lyricists, not to rewrite the work of older authors, because older texts enrich the vocabulary of children and to the songs as historical heritage intact.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-36" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [36] ==Well known sinterklaas songs from the 19th and 20th centuries<span class="mw-editsection" len="371" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The following list of songs are traditional sinterklaas songs from the 19th and 20th centuries (or older), which are still sung. It comes to folk songs that have been recorded in the nineteenth century and which have arisen or which popularly the author no longer known; and to songs that have appeared in song booklets and active vocals sought. For sinterklaas songs by performing artists see the second list, among these.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The songs are listed in the table alphabetically by first line (incipit). Folk songs are usually differentiated based on the starting line, not the title.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-37" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [37]  By clicking on the triangle at the top of a column, the list may optionally also be alphabetically by author or composer, or chronologically arranged.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The songs can be over stated, sure as the oldest known source is a collection.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-38" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [38]  the oldest sites than an indication of the minimum age of the song.

<p lang="en" len="108" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">See for full title descriptions in the "sources" at the bottom of this article, under the heading "song books". ==Sinterklaas songs from radio and tv<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The following songs are sinterklaas songs that were written for a performing artist and who more or less have become known from radio or tv. They are generally not included in the oral tradition and it is unusual that they are sung by children on the calibrated moments like when putting the shoe or on pakjesavond. Though they are in the sinterklaas period in more or less extent to hear on the radio or in children's TV programs.


 * 1976: Major Kees and the Sinterklahaas - Paul van Vliet
 * 1982: Saint Nicholas, who knows him not - Henk & Henk
 * 1986: I surely am not Santa Claus - children for children & Edwin Rutten
 * 1988: Kniktieklaas - Bart Peeters
 * 1991: I would ask Santa Claus a very happy Christmas - Henk Temming
 * 1991: Oakley Oakley Sinterklaas is here to stay!! - Ome Henk
 * 1993: come on in! - Pater Moeskroen
 * 1994: Saint Nicholas k. PAL -k. Delaney
 * 2002: Real St./welcome Saint Nicholas - Jochem van Gelder
 * 2004: the letters of Jacob - Janine (every year in the following years he gave a cd and/or single out)
 * 2005: Sinterklaas disco - Gebroeders Ko
 * 2008: Saint Nicholas wants to dance -children for children 30
 * 2010: trust Sinter klaas - Gerard Joling
 * 2012: Zwarte Pieten Style - Party Piet Pablo