How shall I be happy and laugh

Hugo Wolf

How shall I be happy and laugh,

When you are always openly angry with me?

You come only once every hundred years,

And then, only as if you had been ordered to.

Why come, when it makes your family so sorry?

Set my heart free, then you may move on.

Live at home with your family in peace,

For what heaven wills comes to pass here below.

Keep peace with your family at home,

For what heaven wills, shall not fail to be.