Re: women in yidish song

[Yakov Chodosh <ync8...>]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 13:06:45 -0400, you wrote:

>It did not include the verses about selling 
>scarves in the railroad station or washing the floors of strangers. I 
>thought perhaps it was a mournful tune written by a man about his own 
>distress, but now I believe it was written by a woman about HER own 
>longing, and equally mournfully.

now THAT'S evidence! gee whiz!
and heaven help us if some guy would take it upon himself to compose an 
emotionally appropriate song about a woman!

-yakov.
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"Chow Yun-Fat should have won best actor, but it wasn't in English, so no one 
could tell." -roomate.

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