RE: Moyde ani

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Where did you learn this Lucy?

I know a whole different macaronic version.


The parts I recognize in this version are (am also correcting the words, 
grammar, and transliteration here):

Moyde ani, leftonekho   -----> Moyde ani, lefeneykho  [=I thank 
    you standing before you]
Got, nit zorn   ?????  don't understand what this says.
sieh vas fon deyn kind is in der fred gevorn ------> ze vos fun dayn 
    kind iz af der erd gevorn [=see what happened to your child on earth]
    [this could also be "ze vos iz fun dayn kind af der fremd gevorn" 
    {=look what happened to your child in foreign lands}
shverer jorn, lender file  -----> shvere yorn, lender file
ich gedenk mer nit die tfile -----> ikh gedenk mer nit di tfile  [=I don't 
remember the prayer anymore]

kum antkegn
ich bin avek dich suchen in vardrehter vegn  ---- ikh bin avek dikh 
    zukhn af fardreyte vegn [=roads]
ich bin noch jung   -----> ikh bin nokh yung
un erfarn  -----> on erfarn???  [without experience]
s'kenen fremden menschen mich fernarn ------> s'kenen fremde mentshn 
    mikh farnarn  [=unknown people can trick me, cheat me]


Reyzl


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From:  Lucy Fisher[SMTP:lucy (at) cix(dot)compulink(dot)co(dot)uk]
Sent:  Tuesday, March 16, 1999 4:08 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant.
Subject:  Moyde ani

Moyde ani, leftonekho
Got, nit zorn
sieh vas fon deyn kind is in der fred gevorn
shverer jorn, lender file
ich gedenk mer nit die tfile

kum antkegn
ich bin avek dich suchen in vardrehter vegn
ich bin noch jung
un erfarn
s'kenen fremden menschen mich fernarn


????
God, don't be angry
Look what has happened to your child in foreign lands (that should be 
'fremd')
Hard years, many lands
I think no more about your prayers

???
I have gone to seek you along twisted ways
I am only young and ????
Strange men may humiliate me


Can anyone fill in the gaps and mail me?

Thanks in advance.
Lucy Fisher




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