This is a fine, amusing song about a rustic maid, "Lüttje Buurdeern", who after some deliberation made up her mind as to which of two suitors, a seaman and an official's son, she would marry. The rejected suitor takes revenge in swearing the Devil into abducting the bride-to-be on her wedding day. I learned "Lüttje Buurdeern" from Bernd Gerken of course.