☝️ Key Points
- The song is about a hunter who is in the forest searching for foxes and rabbits.
- It emphasizes that life is unpredictable and that one doesn't always have everything under control.
- The hunter encounters a crying girl in the forest and tries to cheer her up.
- At the end of the song, it is revealed that the hunter was deceived and that life sometimes takes unexpected turns.
- The song illustrates that in life, not everything always goes smoothly and that one also needs a bit of luck to deal with unforeseen situations.
Interpretation
The lyrics of the song "Once upon a time there was a hunter" by
Katja Ebstein tell the story of a hunter who goes into the forest to search for foxes and hares. But his wife warns him that things don't always go as planned. In the lines "In life, in life, some shots miss, we think, but others steer your destiny" it becomes clear that life can be unpredictable and that we don't always have everything under control.
Later in the song, the hunter encounters a crying girl in the forest and invites her to come to his hunting ground to cheer her up. The girl hopes that the song he sings to her in the green moss will make her happy.
But when the hunter returns home, he sees his wife sitting in the arms of the head forester Schmidt and she laughs at him. Here it becomes clear that life sometimes takes unexpected turns and that things don't always go as desired.
The lyrics of the song "Once upon a time there was a hunter" by Katja Ebstein thus illustrate that in life, not everything goes smoothly and that a little bit of luck is also needed to deal with unforeseen situations.