"An einen Boten" (German for "To a messenger") is a short German folk song.
C. F. Nicolai published the lyrics in 1778 in his Ein feyner kleyner Almanach (). Almost unchanged, it was included by C. Brentano and A. von Arnim in their collection of German folk songs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1806). Goethe called the verses "uniquely comical and good-natured" ().
Some composers have written tunes for the song. A few English translations have been published as well.
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