RE: "ot azoy" - Bob Cohen and Di Naye Kapelye

[Mordechai Kamel <mkamel...>]

Ot azoy - "This is how" tantst mit aleh shviger "dance with all of the in
laws".
                        makht a khosn kinder    "the groom makes children".

Mordi

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Yakov Chodosh
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:55
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: "ot azoy" - Bob Cohen and Di Naye Kapelye


On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:33:01 -0800, you wrote:

>  Ot azoy, ot azoy, tantst mit ale shviger -
>  Ot azoy, ot azoy, makht a khosn kinder!

thanks a lot! so was this something he made up, i guess?

>The lyrics are pretty much nonsense lyrics, but they rhyme
>(two prime requirements of pop music).

what would a word-for-word translation be?

thanks a ton.

-yakov
"I hate quotations." - Emerson.

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