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No. 4 - Opening Chorus - Act I Scene 2
| Town Girls: | Oh, Market Day is merry, When lads a-courting go; But here it's always very slow, slow slow! We only take a penny When we'd get five or ten, If we could meet with any, any men, men, men, men, men. Gottenberg, Gottenberg always must be sad; Many pretty lasses, and never any lad! Gottenberg, Gottenberg would be full of joy If only ev'ry little girl Could find a little boy! |
| Barbara: | Six pounds potatoes, Onions just a string. Send us up a cauliflower, That is ev'rything! |
| Betti: | Half a dozen apples, A pound of honey comb! It isn't much we want to get With not a man at home! |
| Chorus: | Gottenberg, Gottenberg always must be sad; Many pretty lasses, and never any lad! Gottenberg, Gottenberg would be full of joy If only ev'ry little girl Could find a little boy! Oh, what is that? Under the arch, Feet pit-a-pat, Soldiers in march? Oh, can you view the flag that unfurls? |
| Barbara: | No, it's those University girls! |
| Students: | In case you doubt who we may be, We say with simple tersity We are the lady students who Attend the University! Our hall is greater far than are The Girtons of Britannia! |
| Eva: | So hoch! says sweet Saxonia! And hoch! says Pomerania! And hoch! says bold Borussia! And hoch! says Alemannia! |
| Students: | Hoch! Hoch! Hoch! for the girls of Gottenburger College! Hither the German maids will throng, Fair and strong, raising the song! Hoch! Hoch! Hoch! for the band Who join in sport and knowledge, Wielding like men sabre and pen, For Fatherland! |
| All: | Oh! oh! oh! what a bore are all these girls from College! We have had girls enough for long, And it's wrong, adding a throng! Oh! oh! oh! if we brought it to the Kaiser's knowledge, Surely he'd then send us some men For Fatherland! Hoch! hoch! Hoch! hoch! for Fatherland! Fatherland! |
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Page modified 10 December 2016