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Re: Need expert help
- From: Kame'a Media <media...>
- Subject: Re: Need expert help
- Date: Tue 14 Sep 1999 17.45 (GMT)
Or it might be: A Libe Tsu Shpiln
In Anthology of Yiddish Folksong , Vol. 1. by Vinkovetsky, Kovner and
Leichter
Mount Scopus Publications, Magnes Press - Jerusalem
Wolf
Bill Barabash wrote:
> > (Posted by Zelda Katz ) - zelda (at) post(dot)tau(dot)ac(dot)il
> > My father used to talk about a song "Lomir shpiln a liebe",
> > sung by Sarah Gorby. I have never been able to find a
> > recording, or the words. Can you help? A groisn dank aich!
>
> Possibly this is the song on Ruth Rubin's "Yiddish Love Songs" album
> with the title "Shvern Shver Ikh Dir". It begins: "Oy, lomir beyde a
> liebe shpiln". It's a sad song in which a seamstress solemnly vows
> "bei sher un eisen" (by her scissors and iron) to remain faithful to
> her lover, who is about to enter the army for 3 or 4 years.
>
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