Re: Yet Another lyrics question

[Sam Weiss <SamWeiss...>]

Don't know; but I agree that the central image is worthy of his pen.

At 02:41 PM 12/19/03, Sylvia Schildt wrote:

>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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> >
> >
> >
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