Gleich wie Echo frohen Liedern
Language: German (Deutsch)
Die Frauen:
Gleich wie Echo frohen Liedern
Fröhlich Antwort geben muß,
So auch nahn wir und erwidern
Dankend den galanten Gruß.
Die Männer:
Oh, ihr Güt'gen und Charmanten!
Für des Echos holden Schwung
Nehmt der lust'gen Musikanten
Ganz ergebne Huldigung!
Die Frauen:
Doch ihr huldigt, will's uns dünken,
Andern Göttern nebenbei.
Rot und golden sehn wir's blinken
Sagt, wie das zu nehmen sei?
Die Männer:
Teure! zierlich, mit drei Fingern,
Sichrer, mit der ganzen Hand -
Und so füllt man aus den Dingern 's
Glas nicht halb, nein, bis zum Rand.
Die Frauen:
Nun, wir sehen, ihr seid Meister.
Doch wir sind heut liberal;
Hoffentlich, als schöne Geister,
Treibt ihr's etwas ideal.
Die Männer:
Jeder nippt und denkt die Seine,
Und wer nichts Besondres weiß:
Nun - der trinkt ins Allgemeine
Frisch zu aller Schönen Preis!
Alle:
Recht so! Klingt denn in die Runde
An zu Dank und Gegendank!
Sänger, Fraun, wo die im Bunde,
Da gibt's einen hellen Klang!
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable): - ENG English (Kelly Dean Hansen) , title 1: "Chorus of Homage", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title 1: "Chant de table", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Chorus of Homage
Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
The women:
Just as the echo of happy songs
must give a happy answer,
so we also approach and return
the gallant greeting with thanks.
The men:
Oh, you kind and charming ones!
For the fair flight of the echo
Take from the joyful musicians
the homage that is offered!
The women:
Ah, but we perceive that you pay homage
to other Gods as well.
Red and gold we see it twinkling,
Tell us how should we take that?
The men:
Dear ones! Daintily with three fingers,
more securely with the entire hand -
And so the glass is filled from those
not halfway, but to the rim.
The women:
Now we see that you are masters.
But we are liberal today.
Hopefully, as handsome spirits
you can be led to some ideal.
The men:
Each one sips and thinks of his own lady
and he who doesn't have one in particular -
now, he drinks in general
renewed praise to all beautiful ones!
All:
That is right! All around clink
toasts and returned toasts!
Where singers and women are united,
there will be a bright sound!
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