Re: home on the range in yiddish

[Joel Bresler <joel.br...>]

Isabelle Ganz did "Old Macdonald" in Yiddish in London a few years ago...

Isabel, are you listening in?

Best,

Joel

At 12:21 PM 1/30/2003 -0500, you wrote:




>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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