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Love. Fun vanen heybt zich on a libe? = How does a love start? -- Vuszhe vils tu? = What do you want? -- Di gilderne pave = The golden peacock -- A libe, a libe = A love, yes, a love -- A cholem = A dream -- Margaritkes = Daisies -- Tum balalaika -- Papir iz doch vays = Oh, paper is white -- Libster mayner = My sweetheart -- Yomi, Yomi -- Her nor, du shayn maydele = Listen, my sweet pretty girl -- Gey ich mir shpatsirn = Once I went out strolling -- Du meydel, du fayns = You pretty little girl -- Lomir zich iberbetn = Let's make up -- Di zun vet arunter geyn = The sun will soon set -- Unter a kleyn beymele = Sitting 'neath a little tree -- Oy, dortin, dortin = Away out yonder -- Bin ich mir gegangen fishelech koyfn = I went to the market, to buy some fish there -- Biztu mit mir broygez? = Are you angry with me? -- Oyfn ganikl = Upon the doorstep -- Shvartse karshelech = Black cherries ; Children. Jamele -- Unter dem kinds vigele = Under baby's little crib -- Shlof, mayn feygele = Sleep, my little bird -- Oyfn pripetshok = On the hearth -- Shlof, mayn kind = Sleep, my child -- Vigndig a fremd kind = Rocking someone else's child (The baby-sitter's complaint) -- Rozhinkes mit mandlen = Raisins and almonds -- Dray yingelech = Three little boys -- Bay dem shtetl shteyt a shtibl = In the village there's a cabin -- O, ir kleyne lichtelech = Oh, you little candle light -- Hulyet, hulyet, kinderlech = Play, my dearest little ones -- Birobizhaner viglid = Birobidjan lullaby -- A fidler = A fiddler ; Lechayim!. In der kuznye = In the smithy -- Di bord = The beard -- Di mechutonim geyen = The inlaws are arriving -- Di soche = The plow -- Shprayz ich mir = Walking down the highway -- Dos lidl fun broyt = The song of bread -- A chazandl oyf shabes = A cantor for the Sabbath -- Bayt zhe mir oys a finfuntsvantsiker = Change for me this twenty-fiver -- Ale mentshen tantzendik = Folks are their dancingest -- A glezele lechayim = A toast to life -- Chatskele, chatskele -- Hey! Zhankoye -- Hamentashn -- Birobidjan -- Vi azoy trinkt a keyser tey? = How does a tsar drink tea? -- Achtsik er un zibetsik zi = Eighty he and seventy she -- Di mezinke oysgegebn = My youngest daughter's married -- Ch'bin a bocher, a hultay = I'm a wandering fellow -- Kum aher, du filozof = Come to me, philosopher -- Di ban = The train -- Sha! Shtil! = Shh! Quiet! -- Tshiribim -- Lechayim! = To life! -- Der rebe Elimelech = Rabbi Elimelech ; It's hard to be a Jew. Moyshele, mayn fraynd = Moyshele, my friend -- Tsum hemerl = To the hammer -- Lomir ale zingen a zemerl = Everbody sing a little song -- Hirsh lekert -- Dem milners trern = The miller's tears -- Keshenever pogrom = Kishinev pogrom -- Fonye ganev = Fonye, the thief -- Fonye dinen iz zeyer biter = Serving Fonye is very bitter -- Fraytik in der fri = Early Friday morn -- Farvos zol mayn chosn a soldat? = Why should they make a soldier of my love? -- Zayzhe mir gezunt = I must say farewell -- Yoshke fort avek = Yoshke's leaving now -- Dos fertsnte yor = In nineteen-fourteen -- A ganeyve = A robbery -- Hot rachmones = Have compassion -- Mit a nodl, on a nodl = With a needle, or without one -- Zol ich zayn a rov? = Should I be a rabbi? -- Maykomashmalon = What does it mean? -- Shlof mayn kind, shlof keseyder = Sleep my child, sleep securely -- Ot azoy neyt a shnayder = Stitch away, little taylor -- Un du akerst = Oh, you plow -- Dire gelt = Rent money -- Bulbes = Potatoes -- Bin ich mir a shnayderl = I'm a little tailor -- Vi zenen mayne yunge yorne = Where are my youthful years? ; Amerike! Amerike!. Lidl fun goldenem land = Song of the golden land -- Shikt a tiket = Send a ticket -- Eyn zach vel ich = One thing I ask -- Frayhayt statue = Statue of liberty -- Kesl gardn = Castle garden -- Lebn zol Kolombus = Long life to Columbus -- Kolombus, ich hob tsu dir gornit = Columbus, I give you the first prize -- Elis Aylan = Ellis Island -- New Yorker trern = The tears of New York -- Eyder ich leyg mich shlofn = No sooner do I lie down -- Mayn rue plats = My resting place -- Mayn yingele = My little son -- Svetshop = Sweatshop -- Dem pedlers brivl = The peddler's letter -- Arbeter froyen = You working women -- A briv fun Amerike = A letter from America -- In kamf = In struggle -- Vos vet zayn der sof? = What will be the end? -- To gey zich lernen tantsn = Just go and learn to dance now ; The Holocaust. Es brent = On fire -- Unter di churves fun Poyln = Under the ruins of Poland -- Itsik vitnberg -- Aroys iz in vilne a nayer bafel = In vilna was issued a brand-new decree -- Geto lid = Ghetto song -- Yeder ruft mich ziamele = People call me Ziamele -- S'dremlin feygl = Birds are dozing -- Yugnt-himn = Youth hymn -- Neyn, neyn, neyn = No, no, no -- Shtil, di nacht = Still, the night -- Zog nit keynmol = Never say -- Ani maamin = I believe. |
