Re: Yet Another lyrics question

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Sam,.

I assume you mean

Fun vanen nemt zikh, zogt mir, aza groysn veytik
>>> In aza kleynem kleynem fidl?


The credits of the film don't enlighten one either, but it just sounds soooo
Manger.   Anyone know for certain?



Sylvia Schildt
Baltimore, Maryland


on 12/19/03 2:53 PM, Sam Weiss at SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net wrote:

> 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.
>>> 
>>> _____________________________________________________________
>>> Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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