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Innocent when you Dream

from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs by Brivele

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lyrics

The bats are in the belfry
Shlof-zhe, lu-lu-lu.
Where are the arms that held me?
Shlof-zhe, shlof lu-lu

In Amerike iz der tate
Dayner, zunenyu
Bay dayn vigl zits dayn mame
Shlof-zhe, shlof lu-lu

And it's such a sad old feeling
The fields are soft and green
And it's memories that I'm stealing
But you're innocent when you dream

We were running through the graveyard
And we laughed, my friends and I
We swore we'd be together
Until the day we died

Az du mayn kind, vest elter vern
Vestu vern mit laytn glaykh
Demolst vestu gevoyre vern
Vos heyst orem un vos heyst raykh

I made a golden promise
That we would never part
I gave my love a locket
And then I broke her heart

And it's such a sad old feeling
The palace built so fine
But the hands that built it
will never live inside
You're innocent when you dream

Translation:
While your daddy’s in America
Your mama sits by your cradle
Go to sleep, little one

And when you grow older, my child
You will be like the rest of us
That’s when you will find out
What it means to be rich or poor

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from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs, released May 1, 2021
Attributions:
“Innocent When You Dream” by Tom Waits, recorded in 1987 on the album Franks Wild Years.

Yiddish excerpts from “Shlof Mayn Kind” by Sholom Aleikhem and Voices of a People: The Story of Yiddish Folksong by Ruth Rubin, published in 5739/1979 (page 39).

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Brivele Seattle, Washington

A discontented punky-klezy trio of Yiddishists.

Brivele is:

Stefanie Brendler (accordion, vox, glockenspiel, slide whistle)
Maia Brown (banjo, vox)
Hannah Hamavid (violin, ukulele, vox)
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