Aria: Go ahead and laugh, you atheists | Go ahead and laugh, you atheists

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by Erdmann Neumeister (1671 - 1756)

Translation © by Michael P Rosewall

Aria: Lacht immerhin, ihr Atheisten

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FIN

Lacht immerhin, ihr Atheisten,
und spottet nur der frommen Christen,
das Heulen kommt zu rechter Zeit.
Da ihr vor solchen Spott und Frevel
im Feuerpfuhl voll Pech und Schwefel
ein ewig Ach! und Zeter schreit.

Text Authorship:

by Erdmann Neumeister (1671 - 1756) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767), "Aria: Lacht immerhin, ihr Atheisten", TVWV1:301 no. 4, published 1718, from Der jüngste Tag, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Dr Michael P. Rosewall) , "Aria: Go ahead and laugh, you atheists", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 35

Aria: Go ahead and laugh, you atheists

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Go ahead and laugh, you atheists,
And simply mock devout Christians,
Your howling comes at just the right time.
Such mockery and insult will bring from you,
In a fiery lake full of sulfur and brimstone,
A clamorous shriek and eternal Ah!

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Erdmann Neumeister (1671 - 1756)
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This text was added to the website: 2022-09-05
Line count: 6
Word count: 42