RE: Geven a tzayt - verter af yidish

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <yiddish...>]

Found this old unsent message.


As well as:

"Troymen vos zenen/zaynen keynmol nisht geshen."

Troymen is plural.


Reyzl 


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From:  Lionel Mrocki & Karen Amos [SMTP:amrocks (at) optushome(dot)com(dot)au]
Sent:  Friday, August 10, 2001 9:58 AM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  Re: Geven a tzayt - verter af yidish

Abbi Wood wrote:

>
>
> Do zenen di verter far 'geven a tzayt' af yidish, fun Teddi Schwartzn.
>
>
> _Geven a tzayt_
>
> Vi oft mir flegn trefn zikh in shenkl,
> Mir zenen yung un narish dan geven;
> Gedenkstu vi mir flegn dort farbrengen,
> Troymen vos is keynmol nisht geshen.
>
>         Geven a tzayt, mayn fraynd, ay, vi es benkt zikh haynt,
>         Mir flegn hulyen, lakhn gantzn nekht,
>         Dan hobn fis geshprungen un dos hartz gezungen,
>         Ay, a tzayt, mayn fraynd, geven a tzayt!
>
>         Day, day, day...

etc, etc....



Shouldn't that be gantze nekht in the chorus?


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