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Thread #127435 Message #2842662
Posted By: Joe Offer
18-Feb-10 - 01:20 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Ketzele Baroiges/Ketsele Broyges
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ketzele Baroiges/Ketsele Broyges
The Freedman Catalogue has a little background informaiton: Title: Dem Ganevs Yikhes -- דעם גנבֿס יחוּס
Also known as: Dem Rebns Nign (Dem Ganevs...)
Also known as: Nign Khasidi
Also known as: Shmaravoznik
Also known as: Vos Bistu Broyges
Also known as: Vos Bistu Ketsele Broyges
Also known as: Yikhes
Genre: Folk/Underground/Thieves/Humorous/Insulting
Subject: Pedigree/Family/Father/Mother/Sister/Brother/Occupation
Song Comment: Same melody as "Dem Rebns Nigun"
Origin: Kotlansky 139/CD S-100(a)
Transliteration: Kotlansky 139/Alb K-020(a)/Alb O-009(a)/Alb J-024(a)CD L-054(a)
Translation: Alb J-024(a)/Alb O-009(a)/Kotylan 139/Alb Z-010(b)/CD S-100(a)/CD L-054(a)
Music: Kotlyan 140
Related information in folder 205:- Comments: 1. Transliterated text of variant of Dem Ganevs Yikhes from email of March 2, 2003 sent by Bob Poe. 2. Article from Yiddish Forward of Nov 9, 2007 by Chana Mlotek titled "Vos Bistu, Kotinke Barugz?"
On album: S-068(a) (Shirim Klezmer Orchestra ...of angels and horseradish)
Artist Silberman, Betty
First line: Vos bistu, ketsele, broyges, un vos zhe hostu aropgelozt...
First line (Yiddish):װאַס ביסטו, קעצעלע, ברוגז, און װאָס זשע האָסטו אַרופּגעלאָזט די...
Track comment: Recorded under title "Far Vos Iz Di Ketzele Broyges"
Language: Yiddish
You can find lyrics at the archive of zemerl.com, but I think they're the same as those posted by 999. Zemerl calls the song "Dem Ganefs Yikhes" or "Far Vos Du Ketsele Broyges"
-Joe-