Re: street Yikhes

[Andy Rubin <andyrubin...>]

Those words are exactly the ones used by The Klezmorim on their East Side
Wedding album. Dr. Martin Schwartz translates the verse on the back of the
album as follows:

Dain tate iz a shmarovoznik
Your father greases wagon wheels

Dain mame ganvet fish in mark
Your mother steals fish at the fair

Un dain bruder iz a kartyozhnik
And your brother is a card-sharp

Un dain shvester leibt mit a Kozak
And your sister lives with a Cossack


-Andy Rubin
Sacramento, CA




>One Hannukeh I played a gig with a klezmer band in
>an orthodox shul.  After we played an exhausting
>round of Yikhes, over and over, faster and faster,
>a little lady came up and taught me the "street
>words" to Yikhes.  She said they sang it this way
>when they were kids:
>
>(pardon my idiosyncratic spelling of words I'm not
>sure of.)
>
>dayn tate iz a schmara voznik
>dayn mame gant vet fisch in mart
>dayn bruder iz a kartosnik
>dayn schvester lebt mit a kozak
>
>your father is a garbage man
>your mother sells fish
>your brother is a (?)
>your sister lives with a Kossak.  (ouch!)
>
>Anyone with a better translation or more info?
>
>bj
>



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