Coffee Cantata

As you make your cup of coffee from our choice of blends, enjoy a moment with J.S. Bach

JS Bach's

Coffee Cantata

Composed for perfomance by Bach's Collegium at Zimmerman's Coffee House,
Leipzip, between 1732 & 1734

Recitative
Schlendrian You wicked child, you disobedient girl,
            oh! when will I get my way;
            give up coffee!
Lieschen    Father, don't be so severe!
            If I can't drink
            my bowl of coffee three times daily,
            then in my torment I will shrivel up
            like a piece of roast goat.

Aria Lieschen
Mm! how sweet the coffee tastes,
more delicious than a thousand kisses,
mellower than muscatel wine.
Coffee, coffee I must have,
and if someone wishes to give me a treat,
ah, then pour me out some coffee!

Recitative
Schlendrian If you don't give up drinking coffee
            then you shan't go to any wedding feast,
            nor go out walking.
            oh! when will I get my way;
            give up coffee!
Lieschen    Oh well!
            Just leave me my coffee!
Schlendrian Now I've got the little minx!
            I won't get you a whalebone skirt
            in the latest fashion.
Lieschen    I can easily live with that.
Schlendrian You're not to stand at the window
            and watch people pass by!
Lieschen    That as well, only I beg of you,
            leave me my coffee!
Schlendrian Furthermore, you shan't be getting
            any silver or gold ribbon
            for your bonnet from me!
Lieschen    Yes, yes! only leave me to my pleasure!
Schlendrian You disobedient Lieschen you,
            so you go along with it all!

Aria Schlendrian
Hard-hearted girls
are not so easily won over.
Yet if one finds their weak spot,
ah! then one comes away successful.

Trio
A cat won't stop from catching mice,
and maidens remain faithful to their coffee.
The mother holds her coffee dear,
the grandmother drank it also,

who can thus rebuke the daughters!

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