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Spanish Viglid

from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs by Brivele

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lyrics

S’fayft der vint
Durkh unzer dakh
Himl tsindt
Zikh afdernakht

Kind mayns, kind
Afgikh shlof ayn
Zol der vint
Dir zayn vi vayn
Vald un feld
Der toyt farhilkht
Mamen kvelt
Nit mer keyn milkh

Tate iz
In shlakht avek
Mame vigt
A vig mit shrek

Korn, vayts
Vart afn shnit
Tate shteyt
Hinter madrid

Shrek zikh nit
Mayn tayer kind:
Tate hit
Madrid fun hint

Tate hit
Dayn libe shtot
Fun fashists
Farsmutn trot

Kind mayns, kind
Afgikh shlof ayn
Zol der vint
Dir zayn vi vayn

Translation:
The wind whistles past
Our roof, and light
Flickers in
The sky tonight

Child, mayn kind
Sleep, child of mine
May the wind
Be like wine

Woods and field
Resound with death
There's no more milk
At Mama's breast

Papa's gone
Away to war
Mama rocks
Your crib with fear

Rye and wheat
Should be harvested
Papa's keeping
The dogs from Madrid

Don't be frightened
Child of mine
Papa's watching
Madrid, from behind
Papa's keeping
Your city safe
From the fascists'
Poisoned step

Child, mayn kind
Sleep, child of mine
May the wind
Be like wine

credits

from Cradle Songs, Grave Songs, released May 1, 2021
Attributions:
“Spanish Lullaby” by Aaron Kurtz (1938).
Translated into English by Amelia Glaser and published in Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets (2005).

Melody: "Canción de Cuna" by revolutionary Nicaraguan singer Norma Helena Gadea.

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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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