Hoffmann.--Away with all personalities. Let us have a roundelay.
There goes a drinking-law our table all around, around--
There goes a drinking-law our table all around:--
Three times three are nine-a,
Ye know well what I opine-a.
There goes a drinking-law our table all around.
What a jolly time the damsels have though--
They're not compelled to the war to go.
[Here he drinks out his glass, as each one does in his turn, after having song.]
[THE KRÄHWINKLER LANDSTURM.]
But march you slow there before, but still march slow there before,
Or the Krähwinkler Landsturm can follow no more.
What a jolly time the maidens have though,--
They're not compelled to the war to go.
| Pittschaft-- | Dame hostess, cook you Millet-bree, When the Landsturm comes it will hungry be. |
| Chorus-- | [As above, and repeated after the singing of each strophe.] |
| Freisleben-- | Our captain is from Rudolstadt, He eats a deal, but hungers for all that. |
| Von Kronen-- | Sir Captain! my follower goes so in trot, That scarcely a scrap of heel I have got. |
| Enderlin-- | At Leipsic, in the People's-Fight, We had nearly taken a prisoner quite. |
| Eckhard-- | The artillery would have fought right well, But of powder it can not bear the smell. |