 The threefold repetition of the monosyllabic "Bass" was gradually replaced by "Kontrabass", which in fact fits much better into the metric structure of the text.Thus, the song book "Der Kilometerstein" in the 1934 Potsdam edition furnished by Gustav Scholten still has the "Bass", while the 1941 Mainz edition by Ludwig Voggenreiter already reads "Kontrabass".In fact, there are hardly two identical versions in the early records.