God's Bottles (Anonymous, set by G. Bachlund) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


We will drink from God's bottles.
Apples are God's bottles: the sweet juice of the apple
God has placed in His own bottle.
What a beautiful rosy-red bottle it is!
These red bottles hang on the limbs of a tree
until they are all ready for us to use.
Do you want to open God's bottle?
Bite the apple with your teeth,
and you will taste the sweet juice
God has put in His bottle for you.
Grapes are God's bottles: these purple and green bottles
you will find hanging on a pretty vine.
See! So many little bottles are on a single stem!
Put a grape in your mouth and you will open God's bottle.
How nice the juice tastes!
Some men take the juice of apples and grapes
and make drinks, that will harm our bodies.
They put the drinks in glass bottles,
but we will not drink from such bottles.
We will drink from God's bottles.

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Gary Bachlund

Date added to the website: 2007-05-01.

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