Mario Lanza - Gaudeamus Igitur (Traditional) - Текст песни

Gaudeamus igitur /Let us rejoice therefore
Juvenes dum sumus. /While we are young.
Post jucundam juventutem/ After a pleasant youth
Post molestam senectutem/ After a troubling old age
Nos habebit humus./ The earth will have us.

Ubi sunt qui ante nos/ Where are [they] who before us
In mundo fuere?/ Were in the world?
Vadite ad superos/ Go to the heavens
Transite in inferos/ Cross over into hell
Hos si vis videre./ If you wish to see them.

Vita nostra brevis est/ Our life is brief
Brevi finietur./ Soon it will end.
Venit mors velociter/ Death comes quickly
Rapit nos atrociter/ Snatches us cruelly
Nemini parcetur./ It spares no one.

Vivat academia!/ Long live the academy!
Vivant professores!/ Long live the professors !
Vivat membrum quodlibet/ Long live each student!
Vivant membra quaelibet/ Long live all students!
Semper sint in flore./ May they always be in their prime!
Vivant omnes virgines /Long live all girls
Faciles, formosae./ Easy and beautiful!
Vivant et mulieres/ Long live mature women also,
Tenerae amabiles/ Tender and lovable
Bonae laboriosae./ Good [and] productive.
Vivat et respublica/ Long live the state as well
et qui illam regit./ And he who rules it!
Vivat nostra civitas,/ Long live our city
Maecenatum caritas/[And] the charity of benefactors
Quae nos hic protegit. /Which protects us here!

Pereat tristitia,/ Let sadness perish!
Pereant osores./ Let haters perish!
Pereat diabolus,/ Let the devil perish!
Quivis antiburschius/ Let whoever is anti-student
Atque irrisores./ As well as the mockers!

Quis confluxus hodie/ Why today such a multitude
Academicorum?/ Of scholars?
E longinquo convenerunt,/ Despite distance, despite weather,
Protinusque successerunt/ They have gathered here together
In commune forum./ For Philology's sake!

Vivat nostra societas,/ Long live our society,
Vivant studiosi;/ Long live the scholars;
Crescat una veritas/ May one truth grow
Floreat fraternitas/ May the brotherhood flourish
Patriae prosperitas./ [And] fatherland's prosperity.

Alma Mater floreat,/ May our Alma Mater thrive,
Quae nos educavit;/ Which has educated us;
Caros et commilitones,/ Friends and colleagues, where'er they are,
Dissitas in regions/ Whether near or from afar,
Sparsos, congregavit/ Heed her invitation.