Warnung

Solche Bücher läßt du drucken!
Teurer Freund, du bist verloren!
Willst du Geld und Ehre haben,
Mußt du dich gehörig ducken.

Nimmer hätt ich dir geraten,
So zu sprechen vor dem Volke,
So zu sprechen von den Pfaffen
Und von hohen Potentaten!

Teurer Freund, du bist verloren!
Fürsten haben lange Arme,
Pfaffen haben lange Zungen,
Und das Volk hat lange Ohren!

by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) , "Warnung", from Neue Gedichte, in Zeitgedichte, no. 3

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

by David Leonard Blake (1936-) , "Warnung", published 1981 [high voice and eleven players], from From the mattress grave : a cycle of twelve songs to poems by Heine, no. 2, also set in English by Peter Palmer
by Reiner Bredemeyer (1929-1995) , "Warnung", 1972, published 1976 [voice (speaker) and guitar with other instruments ad libitum], from Heine-Lieder: 15 Lieder, no. 1.
by Peter Janssens (1934-) , "Solche Bücher: aus Zeitgedichte: Warnung", published 1976, from Heinrich Heine Song Buch, no. 13.
by Georg Katzer (1935-) , "Gedicht Nr. 3 (Zeitgedichte)", 1986?, published 1989 [high voice and piano], from 5 neue Heine-Lieder, no. 4.

ENG English [singable] (Peter Palmer)

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