RE: De shtoop?

[Dick Rosenberg <drosenberg...>]

Vu iz Dos Gesele can be found in:

Songs of Generations
Mlotek / Workmen's Circle Book

Dick Rosenberg

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  elkahn (at) JTSA(dot)EDU [SMTP:elkahn (at) JTSA(dot)EDU]
>Sent:  Tuesday, April 13, 1999 10:24 AM
>To:    World music from a Jewish slant.
>Subject:       Re: De shtoop?
>
>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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