Chapter Twentieth
A dead person is buried. Reason enough for all the cranky skeletons to use their instruments and take the Königsberg funeral ritual to task. ÂThe Requiem is cancelled. The churchyard plays for the funeral feast!Â
THE WERKELMANN
Ten dead jumping jacks play for the funeral feast.
Ten dead jumping jacks strip the dead naked.
Accordion - violin - clarinet.
...play at the funeral feast.
...the dead strip naked.< br/>THE WERKELMANN
Dance you dolls, float around!
The dead are becoming more and more!
THE HUNCHED ONE
BERTRAM, THE SERVANT
Stuff your mouths, you stupid lot!
Get down, you ragamuffins!
THE WERKELMANN
We're playing for the funeral feast!
Just wallow in the horror!
THE WERKELMANN
Ten dead jumping jacks fidget back and forth,
Ten dead jumping jacks don't find it difficult at all.
THE BUCKLIGE
Eat our songs, you foolish pack!
/>Get down, scoundrels!
Accordion - violin - clarinet.
THE WERKELMANN
The churchyard plays for the funeral feast,
Stuff your mouths and wallow in the horror!
THE WERKELMANN
We're playing the dance of death! Pat your little hands!
And stuff bones into your belly!
Solo accordion.
We play colorfully, you dead - at this dead hour!
Devoure - yes stuff the funeral meal in your big, wide throat!
Solo accordion (The Hunchback).
THE WERKELMANN
The churchyard is playing...to the Danse Macabre!
Dance...You dead, dance! Dance! Dance! Dance!
Solo accordion (The Hunchback).
Dance! You dead, dance! Dance, dance, dance!
Dance! You dead, dance! Dance, dance, dance!
Now death grins out of its hole. What are you still staring at?
Death is mine...Death is yours...
Death doesn't want to be alone!
Solo accordion.
DER WERKELMANN
Dance! You dead, dance! Dance, dance, dance!
Dance! You dead, dance! Dance, dance, dance!
Death grins so harshly, he rocks his scaffold!
Death is mine...
Death is yours...
Death wants Don't be alone!
Solo accordion (The Hunchback).
DER WERKELMANN
Dance! You dead, dance! Dance, dance, dance!
Dance! You dead, dance! Dance, dance, dance!

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