Good catch! I heard someone on the radio go on and on about how he tried to analyze the work, but there was just nothing to analyze. So it couldn't be all that good, because there was nothing for him to exercise his college chops on. Silly pedants.

Did the tenor sing the song in falsetto? One of the things Mike (in Houston) told me about the piece is that Previn's was one of the few recordings where the tenor sang in falsetto, as directed (my score doesn't seem to mention the directed use of the head voice, but I see that I had penned in two more verses of the poem that weren't used in this setting -- see below: Orff used verses one, two, and five) instead of from the chest to prove he could. Macho, macho tenors!

Boosey & Hawkes in London had an exact facsimile for sale of (I think) the book that many, if not all, of these were taken from. Different colors of ink and everything. It was cool, but a bit expensive, and I wanted twenty other things that day.

"I would prefer to live in the water / Always under the clear sky / Than to lie here in hot pepper.
I was whiter than snow / Prettier than any other bird / Now I'm blacker than a crow."