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Thread #170217 Message #4115974
Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Aug-21 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Songs of Mordecai Gebirtig (1877-1942)
Subject: ADD: Yankele (Mordecai Gebirtig)
YANKELE (Mordecai Gebirtig)
Shlofzhe mir shoyn, Yankele, mayn sheyner, Di Eygelekh, di shvartsinke makh tsu, A yingele vos hot shoyn ale tseyndelekh, Muz nokh di mame zingen ay-lyu-lyu?
A yingele, vos hot shoyn ale tseyndelekh, Un vert mit mazl bald in kheyder geyn, Un lernen vet er khumesh un gemoro, Un veynen ven di mame vigt im ayn?
A yingele, vos lernen vet gemoro, Ot shteyt der tate, kvelt un hert zikh tsu, A yingele vos vakst talmid khokhem Lozt gantse nekht der mamen nisht tsuru?
A yingele, vos vakst a talmid khokhem, Un a geniter sokher oykh tsuglaykh, A yingele, a kluger khosen bokhur, Zol lign azoy nas vi in a taykh‘?
Nu shlof-zhe mir, mayn kluger khosen bokhur, Dervayl ligstu in vigele bai mir. S'vet kostn nokh fil mi un mames trern Bizvanen s'vet a mentsh aroys fun dir.
From The Mordechai Gibirtig Songbook, edited and arranged by Velvel Pasternak (Tara Publications, 1998, pp 14-15)