King Joy (Heinrich Werner)

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• (Posted 2022-04-08)  CPDL #68776:         

Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2022-04-08).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 173 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: King joy
Composer: Heinrich Werner
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: TTBB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1879 The Orpheus (New series) no.81
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Original text and translations

English text

We are the monarchs of the earth, we!
Our joy proclaims it loudly,
Like Joy, no treasures, rank, or birth,
Can wear a crown so proudly;
Each goblet shall a kingdom be
And joy and wine our subjects free!
Let all to Joy a bumper drain,
And never-ending be his reign.
We are the monarchs of the earth, we!

Care would with Joy dispute the crown,
And banish ev'ry pleasure,
But we will keep the tyrant down,
And Joy shall know no measure;
Old Care, however he may frown,
In sparkling bumpers we will drown.
Let all to Joy a bumper drain,
And never-ending be his reign.
We are the monarchs of the earth, we!