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

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

If there were a comma (Makht a khosn, kinder) couldn't it be "one makes 
a bridegroom, children"?  I can't imagine that the dance that goes with 
this is a bump and grind type that one might expect with the other 
translation.
Lorele

Mordechai Kamel wrote:

>Ot azoy - "This is how" tantst mit aleh shviger "dance with all of the in
>laws".
>                        makht a khosn kinder    "the groom makes children".
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>Mordi
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>-----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:
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>> Ot azoy, ot azoy, tantst mit ale shviger -
>> Ot azoy, ot azoy, makht a khosn kinder!
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>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).
>>
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>what would a word-for-word translation be?
>
>thanks a ton.
>
>-yakov
>"I hate quotations." - Emerson.
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