Re: Mah N'daber

[Cantorkenr <Cantorkenr...>]

I first learned it from one of the guys from the minyan at shul (Phil 
Dantziger), who sang "Mi n'dabeir".  Everyone else I've heard sing Mu adabra, 
which I think is the less Hebrew-infiltrated version

The Theodore Bikel "Taste of Passover" version is 
"Mu asapru, Mu adabru, oyscho, oyscho, yam di di di dom
Ver ken zogn ver ken redn
Vos di eyns batayt (2)
Eyner iz Got, un Got iz eyner
Un vayter keyner"

The Phil Dantziger Swampscott version is approximately:  
"Mi n'dabeir mi n'sapeir, hey, hey, chiri biri bim bam (obvious Israeli 
influence creeping in!)
Ver ken redn ver ken tseilen
Vus di eyns far taycht (2x)
Eyner iz dokh Got, un Got iz eyner
Un vayter keyner" (2x)

Ken


In a message dated 5/24/00 11:43:43 AM, you wrote:

<<Nu, Ken, who has recorded the Mah N'daber?  Does it also have a different
melody?
Lorele

Cantorkenr (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/24/00 5:57:28 AM, you wrote:
>
> <<Dear Jordan,
>
> You wrote this a while ago.  Can you tell me whether this is a different
> song than the version Bikel recorded, "Mu Asapru", and if so, who
> recorded it?
>
> Thanks,
> Lori
> >>
>
> I think those are both the Yiddish versions of "Echad Mi Yodea," or "Who
> Knows One", from the Passover Seder.  "Mah N'daber" has a bit more Hebrew
> thrown in with the Yiddish.
>
> Ken
>>>

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