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Re: home on the range in yiddish
- From: Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>
- Subject: Re: home on the range in yiddish
- Date: Thu 30 Jan 2003 17.41 (GMT)
Thanks.
Sylvia Schildt
on 1/29/03 10:01 PM, Robert A. Rothstein at rar (at) slavic(dot)umass(dot)edu
wrote:
> Sylvia Schildt wrote:
>
>> This is a version I got from I forget where. Made a few changes in the
>> chorus so it would more sing-able.
>>
>> Sylvia Schildt
>>
>> HOME ON THE RANGE in Yiddish
>>
>> Oy gib mir a heym vu di bufloksn geyn...
>
> It's from Marie B. Jaffe's book _Gut Yuntif, Gut Yohr_, revised and enlarged
> edition published by The Citadel Press in New York in 1969, which contains
> not only songs, but also such well-known poems as the one that begins:
> 'Sis geven erev krismes, und shtil is in heizel,
> Kein nefeshel rirt zich, afileh kein meizel...
> i.e.,
> S'iz geven erev krismes, un shtil iz in hayzl,
> Kayn nefeshl rirt zikh, afile kayn mayzl...
>
> and which ends (in standard orthography, but with a slight dialect mixture):
> Dokh her ikh a shtime vos zingt afn vint,
> "Gut yontef, mishpokhe, un zayts mir gezint!"
>
> Bob Rothstein
>
>
>
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