Re: Another lyrics question

[TTova <TTova...>]

I actually used this lyric as a lament in the Holocaust musical STILLL THE NIGHT that l I wrote a few years ago... very haunting...
I used a partial translation as we were playing in regional theatres to gentile audiences.... and will have to look for the original file to find all the Yiddish lyrics...


	Oh Herts zich ayn Mayne libe mentchn
Oh listen carefully to words in my sad riddle
Fin vanent nemt zich 
zukt mir a za groyse vaytig
And how does so much sorrow 
fit in one small fiddle

Ich vel aych zugn mayne libe mentchn
I'll tell you everything 
you ever need to hear now
The fiddle cries because 
it learns from its musician
about his heartbreaks 
his loves and his prayers

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On Dec 22, 2003, at 6:35 PM, Trudi Goodman wrote:

> The website,www.imdb.comlists Itsik Manger as the lyricist for the film Yidl Mitn Fidl.
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> Trudi Goodman
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> >From: lucy_fisher (at) timemagazine(dot)com
> >Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> >To: World music from a Jewish slant
> >Subject: Another lyrics question
> >Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:42:36 -0000
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> >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. The English translation goes something like this:
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> >Ladies and gentlemen, can you tell me
> >Why the violin sounds so sad? How can all that feeling fit in a little fiddle?
> >The answer is, the fiddle learns it from the player.
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> >Lucy Fisher
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