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FOR the sole edification | |
Of this decent congregation, | |
Goodly people, by your grant | |
I will sing a holy chant, | |
I will sing a holy chant. | 5 |
If the ditty sound but oddly, | |
Twas a father, wise and godly, | |
Sang it so long ago. | |
Then sing as Martin Luther sang: | |
Who loves not woman, wine, and song, | 10 |
Remains a fool his whole life long! | |
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He, by custom patriarchal, | |
Loved to see the beaker sparkle; | |
And he thought the wine improved, | |
Tasted by the lips he loved, | 15 |
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Friends, I wish this custom pious | |
Duly were observed by us, | |
To combine love, song, wine, | |
And sing as Martin Luther sang, | 20 |
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Who loves not woman, wine, and song, | |
Remains a fool his whole life long! | |
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Who refuses this our Credo, | |
And who will not sing as we do, | 25 |
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Id pronounce him heterodox, | |
Id pronounce him heterodox, | |
And from out this congregation, | |
With a solemn commination, | 30 |
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Wholl not sing as Luther sang, | |
As Doctor Martin Luther sang: | |
Who loves not woman, wine, and song, | |
Remains a fool his whole life long! | 35 |
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