Der Eselkönig [English translation]

The King of Donkeys comes back to our holy dance

You should be the Sovereign of Fools, we want to bow down,

And behind him in full splendour and lavish number

First one sees the donkey's cardinal in gaudy garb.

He's followed in step by the dance's prince, then straight away by Bacchus looking quite stylish

And beside him Gambrinus stepped, the reveler's funny God

Next came a joker, the King's fool, Thalia1 and the god Pan,

a whole swarm of light entertainments with their plays

on a funny people, until right at the end a sad picture presented itself,

a scrawny woman in ragged clothes, it was dire2 need

But she today shall be of the nobility and wear a crown

Let her be given the best wine, no-one shall deny her.

1. presumably the muse, not the grace2. literally "dear"

• Artist:Tanzwut
• Album:Eselmesse