RE: Geven a tzayt - verter af yidish

[Abbi Wood <acw24...>]

Teddi Schwartz definitely sings 'iz' at this point (it's on the tape 'Kumt
Arayn - American songs in Yiddish'). I had understood it to mean that the
protagonists are dreaming (plural) about something (singular) that never
happened (but as I don't know the original version of the song, I don't
know what the line she's translating is).

Abbi

On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky wrote:

> Found this old unsent message.
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> As well as:
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> "Troymen vos zenen/zaynen keynmol nisht geshen."
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> Troymen is plural.
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>
> 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:
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> >
> >
> > 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....
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> Shouldn't that be gantze nekht in the chorus?
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