"Hänschen klein" by Franz Wiedemann (1821–1882) is a German folk song and children's song originating in the Biedermeier period of the 19th century. The song's English translation is "Little Hans".
Originally it told of a juvenile who ventures to the world and
returns as a man to his family. It gained much more popularity around
1900, when the following abridged textual version came to be adopted as
among the first songs to be taught to small children, whether at home or
in kindergarten. Now it is about a small boy, who is going away but
returns immediately to hearth and home, since his mother, left alone,
began crying.
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