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About the Operas
by Franz Lehár
GERN HAB’ ICH DIE FRAU’N GEKÜßT
PAGANINI
I gladly kissed the women
Never asked if it's allowed
I thought: just take them,
just kiss them, that's what they're there for!
Yes, believe me: I never took love seriously
I loved hotly, but I'm not very faithful,
I'm a man, there isn't much to it,
dear lover: I will look at other women too!
I know the glow of true love,
I know how painful falsehoods can be,
I know the joys,
how they begin with happiness,
I saw their turning and how they end in misery!
I know love in major and minor key,
I know it glad, crazy, and mad,
I look back awakening and laughing
and seem in intoxication, in swapping around my luck
I gladly kissed the women
Never asked if it's allowed
I thought: just take them,
just kiss them, that's what they're there for!
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