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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Mit Mädeln sich vertragen
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG FRE ITA
Mit Mädeln sich vertragen,
Mit Männern 'rumgeschlagen,
Und mehr Credit als Geld;
So kommt man durch die Welt.

Mit vielem läßt sich schmausen;
Mit wenig läßt sich hausen;
Daß wenig vieles sey,
Schafft nur die Lust herbei.

Will sie sich nicht bequemen,
So müßt ihr's eben nehmen.
Will einer nicht vom Ort,
So jagt ihn g'rade fort.

Laßt alle nur mißgönnen,
Was sie nicht nehmen können,
Und seid von Herzen froh;
Das ist das A und O.

So fahret fort zu dichten,
Euch nach der Welt zu richten.
Bedenkt in Wohl und Weh
Dieß goldne A B C.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   F. Schubert •   H. Wolf 

F. Schubert sets stanzas 1-2

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Confirmed with Goethe's Werke, Vollständige Ausgabe lezter Hand, Zehnter Band, Stuttgart und Tübingen, in der J.G.Cotta'schen Buchhandlung, 1827, pages 217-218; and with Goethe's Werke, Erster Band. Gedichte. Erster Theil, mit Einleitung und Anmerkungen von G. von Loeper, Zweite Ausgabe. Verlag von Gustav Hempel, Berlin, 1882, page 83 (Gesellige Lieder).

See also the text from the first version of Claudine von Villa Bella, which shares the first four lines.


Text Authorship:

  • by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), no title, written 1787, appears in Claudine von Villa Bella [author's text checked 2 times 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 Franz Peter Schubert (1797 - 1828), "Räuberlied", D 239 no. 7 (1815), published 1893, first performed 1913, stanzas 1-2 [ tenor, chorus and orchestra ], from operetta Claudine von Villa Bella, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hans August Friedrich Zincke genannt Sommer (1837 - 1922), "Frech und froh" [ voice and orchestra ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903), "Frech und froh I", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Goethe-Lieder, no. 16, Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , "De meisjes laten lachen", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Malcolm Wren) , "Cheeky and cheerful", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "S'entendre avec les filles", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Alle ragazze fare la corte", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Rastl [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 98

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