Let’s Carl the Whole Thing Orff

Here’s a satirical take on Carl Orff’s ‘O Fortuna’ from Carmina Burana…in this rendition of Misheard Lyrics…entitled ‘TCS Does O Fortuna/Salsa Cookies’.

TCS Does O Fortuna/Salsa Cookies

O Fortuna/Velut luna
Statu variabilis/Semper crescis
Aut decrescis;
Vita detestabilis/Nunc obdurat
Et tunc curat/Ludo mentis aciem,
Egestatem,Potestatem
Dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis/Et inanis,
Rota tu volubilis/Status malus,
Vana salus/Semper dissolubilis,
Obumbrata/Et velata
Michi quoque niteris;
Nunc per ludum/Dorsum nudum
Fero tui sceleris. Sors salutis
Et virtutis/ Michi nunc contraria,
est affectus/et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora/Sine mora
Corde pulsum tangite;
Quod per sortem/Sternit fortem,
Mecum omnes plangite!

English Translation

O Fortune, like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing, ever waning,
hateful life/first oppresses
and then soothes/as fancy takes it;
poverty and power
it melts them like ice
fate – monstrous and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed/ and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy
fate is against me
in health and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
so at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!