Re: Di naye shikh

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

on 8/17/02 9:39 PM, Lionel Mrocki at amrocks (at) optushome(dot)com(dot)au 
wrote:

> On the way to last night's gig, I had to stop by the 7-11 to buy
> a battery for one of my pedals, and I saw this long deceased
> yiddish folk-poet whose name escaped me at the time... well it
> looked like him anyway.  So it prompted me to pen these words as
> a tribute in this week which has just been:
> 
> S?iz eyns far a groshn, Tsvei far di hor,
> Drei zikh tsu graytn un for, for, for,
> Nor shtey nisht oyf di bloy zamshene shikh,
> Du kenst ton vos du vilst, nor shtey nisht oyf di shikh.
> 
> Kenst mir gebn a flask, un makhn melkhome
> Red fun mir... loshn hore
> Tu altsdink vos du vilst tsu mir
> Ober oy, oy vey loz op di shikh,
> Nu shtey nisht, oif di bloy zamshene shikh.
> Du kenst ton vos du vilst, nor shtey nisht oyf di shikh.
> 
> Kenst mir gebn a kholera, tsebrekhn di tseyn
> Hakn a tchaynik, un tsabrekhn a beyn
> Tu altsdink vos du vilst tsu mir
> Ober oy, oy vey loz op di shikh,
> Nu shtey nisht, oif di bloy zamshene shikh.
> Du kenst ton vos du vilst, nor shtey nisht oyf di shikh.
> 
> 
> (Alternate last verse)
> Farbren mayn hoiz, roib mayn ?Commodore Special?
> Trink mayn shnapps funem frukhtl fleshl
> Tu altsdink vos du vilst tsu mir
> Ober oy, oy vey loz op di shikh,
> Nu shtey nisht, oif di bloy zamshene shikh.
> Du kenst ton vos du vilst, nor shtey nisht oyf di shikh.
> 
> (The Commodore Special is a reference to a well known locally
> produced automobile)  The alternate verse has been scrapped for
> todays gig, as the "frukhtl-fleshl" bit is a tongue twister I
> cannot master!
> 
> I thought that seeing I was typing it up for today's gig, I'd
> copy and paste it to the list!
> 
> OK, so Elvis wasn't jewish... but he loved god and he loved his
> mother and that's a good start!
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Lionel Mrocki
> 
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do we want to get into the "elvis's bobe was jewish" thing????


sylvia schildt
baltimore, maryland

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