Warnung | Solche Bücher läßt du drucken!

Solche Bücher läßt du drucken!

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Solche Bücher läßt du drucken!
Teurer Freund, du bist verloren!
Willst du Geld und Ehre haben,
Mußt du dich gehörig ducken.

Nimmer hätt ich dir geraten,
So zu sprechen vor dem Volke,
So zu sprechen von den Pfaffen
Und von hohen Potentaten!

Teurer Freund, du bist verloren!
Fürsten haben lange Arme,
Pfaffen haben lange Zungen,
Und das Volk hat lange Ohren!

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Text Authorship:

by Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856), "Warnung", appears in Neue Gedichte, in Zeitgedichte, no. 3 [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 David Leonard Blake (b. 1936), "Warnung", published 1981 [ high voice and instrumental ensemble (11 instruments) ], from From the mattress grave : a cycle of twelve songs to poems by Heine, no. 2, also set in English by Peter Palmer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Reiner Bredemeyer (1929 - 1995), "Warnung", 1972, published 1976 [ voice (speaker), guitar, and instrumental ensemble ad libitum ], from Heine-Lieder: 15 Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Martin Gräbner (b. 1967), "Warnung", 2011 [ voice and piano ], from Drei mal Drei Lieder nach Tucholsky, Heine und Goethe, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Peter Janssens (b. 1934), "Solche Bücher: aus Zeitgedichte: Warnung", published 1976, from Heinrich Heine Song Buch, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
by Georg Katzer (1935 - 2019), "Gedicht Nr. 3 (Zeitgedichte)", 1986?, published 1989 [ high voice and piano ], from 5 neue Heine-Lieder, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 61