LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,102)
  • Text Authors (19,442)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)

Das macht den Menschen glücklich
Language: German (Deutsch) 
Das macht den Menschen glücklich,
Das macht den Menschen matt,
Wenn er drei sehr schöne Geliebte
Und nur zwei Beine hat.

Der einen lauf ich des Morgens,
Der andern des Abends nach;
Die dritte kommt zu mir des Mittags
Wohl unter mein eignes Dach.

Lebt wohl, ihr drei Geliebten,
Ich hab zwei Beine nur,
Ich will in ländlicher Stille
Genießen die schöne Natur.

Text Authorship:

  • by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), appears in Nachgelesene Gedichte 1828-1844 , no. 10 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 - 1952), "Das macht den Menschen glücklich", 1951, published 19--? [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Fredric Myrow , "Das macht den Menschen glücklich", published 1960 [ soprano, flute, viola, and 2 cellos ], from Vier Lieder im Frühling, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Attila Cornelius Zoller (1927 - 1998), "Das macht den Menschen glücklich", from Jazz und Lyrik : Heinrich Heine, no. 11 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-30
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris