bitzu mit mir broygez-Yiddish Lyrics

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Here are the Yiddish lyrics to the broygez  song.  The music can also be 
found in the Lapson book along with  a quadrille version of the dance 
(designed for folk dance enthusiasts?not the shtetl version).
Bitzu mit mir broygez?
Veys ich nit farvos?
Geyst arum a gantsn tog
Aropgelozt di noz.

Un efsher vilstu visn
Az ich hob dich lib?
Lomir beyde ariberform
Tsu dem gutn Yid.

Tsu a gutn Yidn
A pidyen im opgebn,
Zol er far undz Got Betn
Oyf a gut lebn

Un az mir veln kumen
Tzurik fun gutn Yid,
Veln mir beyde ariberforn
In Zelve oyfn Yarid.

Dort vel ich dir koyfn
A zeyger mit a keyt,
Un a sheyne, groyse shtik
Zaydns oyf a kleyd.

To, zy-she mer nit broyges,
Un greyt oyf gich tsum tish!
Un zets zich mit mir esn,
Bakumstu fun mir a kish!

Helen


>
> >In a message dated 9/22/99 7:42:40 AM, winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com writes:
> >
> ><< I have a translation but it appears to be a different version of the 
>song
> >(From Dvora Lapson's book Dances of the Jewish People, 1954)
> >I don't know why you're angry,
> >And why you pout and frown,
> >And why you walk around all day
> >With your nose "hanging down."
>
> >Evidently this is the "G" rated version of the song!
> >Simon
>
>Nope!! different song entirely.  Though I don't have the Yiddish words, I
>do know that they are sung to the melody of the Broyges Tants, a dance done
>(traditionally by the two mekhutenistes (mothers of the bride and groom))
>at a wedding to teach the bride and groom about reconciling differences.
>
>Dem Gonifs Yikhes is related to the song, Yikhes, which was performed (and
>written?) by Aaron Lebedef.  The melody is similar, though it doesn't have
>all the same parts.  Again, unfortunately, I don't have the words to the
>Lebedef song.  I would guess, by the derisive tone of "dem gonifs yikhes"
>that it is a parody of "Yikhes," but I don't really know which came first.
>
>
>Zayt gezunt (be healthy),
>
>Yosl (Joe) Kurland
>The Wholesale Klezmer Band
>Colrain, MA 01340
>voice/fax: 413-624-3204
>http://www.crocker.com/~ganeydn
>
>
>
>
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