Re: [Lyrics for an old Yiddish song]

[Robert A. Rothstein <rar...>]

The song with the refrain "Di reder dreyen zikh,/di yorn geyn zikh..."
is Mark Warshawsky's "Dem milners trern," which begins "Oy, vifl
yorn/zaynen farlorn,/zayt ikh bin milner ot o do?"  It's in many
collections, including the Mloteks' _Mir trogn a gezang_.  It's not so
much about aging as it is, as the Mloteks write, "about the expulsion of
the Jews from their villages in Czarist Russia."
        Bob Rothstein

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