9 thoughts on “ How Fortunate The Man With None ”

1. Caesar has courage; how fortunate the man with none. Alternatively, one could say “How fortunate the man with no wisdom” or “How fortunate the man with no courage”.5/5(2).

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2. How fortunate the man with none. Performed by Lisa Gerrard & Brendan Perry Engineered and produced by Brendan Perry at Quivvy Church 4-A-D, P.O. BOX , Los Angeles, CA Written by Dead Can Dance Except "The Wind that Shakes the Baley" Words and music: Dr. Robert Dwyer Joyce "How Fortunate the Man with None" Music: Dead Can Dance.

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3. So how fortunate the man with none You saw courageous Caesar next You know what he let himself become They deified him in his life And had him murdered just the same As they raised the fatal knife How loud he cried: and you The world however did not care Just observed, carried on It was courage that brought him to that state.

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4. "How Fortunate the Man With None": For the lyrics, Perry picked four stanzas from Bertolt Brecht's poem "Die Ballade von den Prominenten", in the English translation by John Willett (Brecht used a similar version of this poem as "Die Schädlichkeit von Tugenden" in his play Mother Courage and Her Children, and a slightly different version as "Salomon-Song" in his Threepenny Opera, act Genre: Neoclassical dark wave, world, neo-medieval.

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5. How fortunate the man with none How fortunate the man with none You heard of honest Socrates The man who never lied They weren't so grateful as you'd think Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried And handed him the poisoned drink How honest was the people's noble son The world however didn't wait But soon observed what followed on It's.

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6. Jul 19,  · When Brecht says “how fortunate the man with none”, he says it to invoke a subject who has given up on their humanity, who just plays along in order to get by. He says it four times, three times to invoke history, one time to invoke you.

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7. How fortunate the man with none. You heard of honest Socrates The man who never lied: They weren't so grateful as you'd think Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried And handed him the poisoned drink. How honest was the people's noble son. The world however did not wait But soon observed what followed on. It's honesty that brought him to that state.

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8. The man who never lied: They weren't so grateful as you'd think Instead the rulers fixed to have him tried And handed him the poisoned drink. How honest was the peoples noble son. The world however did not wait But soon observed what followed on. Its honesty that brought him to that state. How fortunate the man with none. Here you can see.

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9. How fortunate the man with none Here you can see respectable folk Keeping to God's own laws So far he hasn't taken heed You who sit safe and warm indoors Help to relieve out bitter need How virtuously we had begun The world, however, did not wait But soon observed what followed on It's fear of God that brought us to that state.

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