A Happy Thanksgiving from Kurt Weill

The Berlin Requiem (Weill/Brecht, 1929)
"Great Hymn of Thanksgiving"
"Ballad of the Drowned Girl"
"Epitaph"
"Legend of the Unknown Soldier Beneath the Triumphal Arch"
"Second Poem on the Unknown Soldier Beneath the Triumphal Arch"
"Great Hymn of Thanksgiving"

Worship the night and darkness by which you are surrounded
Come with a shove.
Look to the heaven above:
Day is already confounded.

Worship with fulness of heart the weak memory of heaven
It cannot trace
Either your name of your face
Nobody knows you're still living

Worship the grass and the beasts that have life and must perish
Lo!Grass and beasts
Like you partake of life's feasts
Like you they also must perish.

Worship the cold and the darkness and calamity dire
Scan the whole earth
You're a thing of no worth
and you may calmly expire