"Es tönen die Lieder" is a round for three parts; it can also be sung as a crab canon.
The text describes how songs, and tunes played by shepherds on a shawm, greet the returning spring.
[3] In 1937, the Swiss songbook Basler Singbuch published the song, marked "volkstümlich" (traditional), with three additional stanzas and an instrumental ornamented part by the music teacher Walter Simon Huber (1898–1978), the father of composer Klaus Huber.
In 1958, Fritz Bachmann published a quodlibet adding to these three also the song "Hab' mein' Wage vollgelade" which is not a round.
Liederbuch der deutschen Jugend., which was printed by the council of the Free German Youth in East Berlin.