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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
03-Oct-05 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Crambambuli / Krambambuli
Subject: Lyr Add: CRAMBAMBULI / KRAMBAMBULI (Wedekind)
CRAMBANBULI
C. F. Wedekind (German original)
Crambambuli is the title
Of that good old song we love the best;
It is the means of health most vital,
When evil fortunes us molest.
From evening late till morning free,
I'll drink my glass, crambambuli,
Cram bim bam bu li, cram-bam-bu-li.
Were I into an inn ascended,
Most like some noble cavalier,
I leave the bread and roast untended,
And bid them bring the corkscrew here.
When blows the post-boy tran tan te,
Then to my glass, crambambuli,
Cram bim bam, bam bu li, crambambuli.
Were I a prince of power unbounded,
Like Kaiser Maximillian,-
For me were there an order founded,
'Tis this device I'd hang thereon:
"Toujours fidele et sans souci,
C'est l'ordre du crambambuli,"
Cram bim bam, bam bu li, crambambuli.
Crambambuli, it still shall cheer me,
When every other joy is past;
When o'er the glass, friend, death draws near me,
To mar my pleasure at the last.
'Tis then we'll drink in company,
The last glass of crambambuli,
Cram bim bam, bam bu li, crambambuli.
With music, allegro.
The German original of many verses, with midi, is found at ingeb.org: Krambambuli
It was composed by Christoph Friedrich Wedekind.
Old college song sung in the U. S. in this shortened version, especially in the Ivy League and other northeastern institutions.
p. 61, 1894, "Carmina Princetonia. The University Song Book." Eighth Ed. Supplementary, Martin R. Dennis & Co., Newark, N. J.