Wenn alle das täten [English translation]

Why don't you stay away from your work for a while?

Go for a walk instead!

At least in the morning, that's fun!

Sleep in, or read something!

Everything will go on without you

You wouldn't risk anything!

They'll say, "If everyone did that

Then it would be a terrible blow!"

Yes - if everyone did that, then everyone would have

A wonderful morning!

If everyone did that, then everyone would have

A wonderful morning!

Or are you studying right now

And are you worried about your studies?

Well, you are young and healthy, that's fine

Just drop your studies!

Are you going to starve? Certainly not right away

Today you starve tomorrow!

You'll say, "If everyone did that

How would our world prosper?"

Yes - if everyone did that, if everyone did that

Then no one would study!

But nothing else, nothing else, nothing else would happen

Nothing at all would happen to the people!

But that's not the end of the world

It's more likely to end if things stay the way they are!

Courage makes us inventive, happy and lively -

Only fear makes us hungry, confused and rushed!

Do not always be so adapted

Do what annoys others!

Others reckon that you make an effort

To pull your coals out of the fire -

Do you find coals more important

Than your own life?

They'll say, "If everyone did that

Then many would grieve!"

Yes - if everybody did that, then everybody would have to

Have more consideration for others!

If everybody did that, then everybody would have to

Have more consideration for others!

Who says here: "There must be order!"?

Disorder is nevertheless so cheerful!

Not always be useful and decent

Once also be stupid, but happy!

If the electric light fails once

Singing on in the dark

And when the new day dawns

Then there'll be light again!

Why don't you leave your career alone?

Who will ever benefit from it?

Yes, you'll earn a crust later on

But until you have the money, the good time is over!

Besides, day after day you'll have to

Toil and froth and sweat!

You will say: "If everyone did that

Then mankind would lie fallow!"

Yes - if all did that, then one would think about

The lying fallow a little more!

If all would do that, then one would think about

The fallow a little more!

Get out and the worries disappear

If you are always at hand, no one can find you

Respectable people are hard to forgive

And the reliable man works alone!

Will you live to see tomorrow?

Better to have a drink today!

Progress is deadly and money is no woman

Planning is wrong and the sky is blue -

What good is a home if you're not happy?

Does a guinea pig know what Rococo is?

Does a turkey know why he's ordered -

And does a man know why he is in the world?

Believe me: The best thing against Nixon, or Brezhnev, or Strauss

You get out, you get out!

Live in the sunshine at last -

You'll only be dead when you're a skeleton!

Don't always walk in the same step

Just don't do the dance anymore!

Surely others will be angry -

Even Socrates had Xanthippe!

They'll say, "If everyone did that

Then nothing would work!"

Yes, if everyone did that, if everyone did that...

Then we'd have to improvise!

Then there'd be no war, no car stink

No dirty rivers, no national bank

No this, no that - then there would actually be

Only people like you and me!

• Artist:Georg Kreisler