Re: De shtoop?

[elkahn <elkahn...>]

Sounds like VU IZ DOS GESELE?

Vu iz dos gesele?   Where is the little street?
Vu iz di shtib?     Where is the shul?
Vu iz doz meydele   Where is the maiden
Vemen chob lib?     Whom I loved?
                    (This is a guessed-at translation.) 
Ot iz dos gesele.   
Ot iz di shtib...

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Steven M. Alper wrote:

> I'm hoping someone out there could help me out with some information 
> about a song. My dad barely remembers it from his childhood; his 
> grandmother sang it to him to help him get to sleep. He can recall some 
> fragments of the lyric and the tune of the verse. The lyrics he remembers 
> are (and PLEASE forgive my wretched Yiddish):
> 
> Ut ist de (street?)
> Und ut is de shtoop
> Ut is de maydelah was ich hat lieb...
> 
> The melody is in 6/8. In C minor it would go something like this (each 
> note is an eighth note; quarter notes or longer have the additional 
> eighths represented with underlines, e.g. F _ _ would be a dotted 
> quarter):
> 
> C C D Eb _ F / G G Ab G _ _   / Ab Ab Bb C1 Bb Ab   / C1 G G G _ _ /
> F F G Ab G F / Eb Eb D C _ g  / g bnatural C D Eb D / C _ _ _ _ _  /
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> Steven M. Alper
> alper (at) bway(dot)net or alper (at) aol(dot)com
> 
> 
> 

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