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RE: Another lyrics question
- From: lucy_fisher <lucy_fisher...>
- Subject: RE: Another lyrics question
- Date: Fri 19 Dec 2003 19.46 (GMT)
Thanks! Now to fit the words to the tune.
Lucy Fisher
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> From: Sam Weiss
> Reply To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 7:36 pm
> To: World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject: Re: Another lyrics question
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> At 08:42 AM 12/19/03, lucy_fisher (at) timemagazine(dot)com wrote:
> >Does anyone have the Yiddish lyrics to a song from Yidl mitn Fidl. It's
> >the one they sing in a courtyard once Tauba has joined them.
>
> It's indeed a beautiful little song that I remembered liking but not seeing
> anywhere, so I just transcribed. I've "kashered" the singer's Galitzyaner
> "Kh'vel yetst enk zugn" in the second verse. BTW there's a cute error in
> the last line of the film's subtitles; the translator must have heard
> "vunder" instead of "hunger," which yielded "wonder" in the English. (The
> error could also have resulted from a misreading of the word "wander"
> [='vogl'].)
>
> TROYERLID fun YIDL MITN FIDL
> Oy, hert zikh ayn, mayne libe mentshn,
> Oy, hert zikh ayn tsu mayn troyerik lidl;
> Fun vanen nemt zikh, zogt mir, aza groysn veytik
> In aza kleynem kleynem fidl?
>
> Kh'vel itst aykh zogn, mayne libe mentshn,
> Kh'vel itst aykh zingen, ale, oyfn oyer,
> Oy, vi der fidl veyst dem dales fun dem klezmer,
> Zayn hunger, zayn vogl, zayn troyer.
>
>
> LAMENT from YIDL MITN FIDL
> Oh, listen, dear people
> Oh, listen to my sad song;
> How, tell me, can such great pain
> Fit into such a small fiddle?
>
> I will tell you, my dear people;
> Listen as I sing for all of you
> How the fiddle knows the Klezmer's poverty,
> His hunger, his wandering and his sorrow.
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> Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
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