Re: Yet Another lyrics question

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Thank you so much for the lyrics.

Did Manger writ them?  I know he wrote Yidl Mitn Fidl - it has all his
hallmarks - can you confirm the authorship????


Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore, Maryland

on 12/19/03 2:36 PM, Sam Weiss at SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net wrote:

> 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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