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Oyfn Ganikl

from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs by Brivele

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lyrics

Ikh gey aroys oyfn ganikl
Dos shtetele bakukn
Kumt tsu flien a kleyn feygele
Un tut zikh tsu mir bukn

Nisht azoy dos kleyne feygele
Vi dos sheyne flien
Es varft arop mir a kleyn brivele
Tu ikh far dem knien

Ikh leyen iber dos ershte shurele
“Der gelibter iz fardorbn”
Ikh leyen iber dos tsveyte shurele
“Der gelibter iz geshtorbn!”

Klaybt tsunoyf ale mayne khavertes
Alemen in eynem
Ver s’hot nor a libe gefirt
Zol mir helfn veynen

Translation:
I go out onto the balcony
and look upon the city
A little bird flies over
and delivers a message to me
“Your beloved has gone ill
Your beloved has died”
Friends, anyone who has ever loved
Help me weep

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from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs, released May 1, 2021
Attribution:
Folk song published in 1912 by the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Music; also published by the Worker’s Circle Education Department in Mir Trogn a Gezang: The New Book of Yiddish Songs, 4th Edition, by Eleanor Gordon Mlotek (1987).

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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) ... more

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