I have trouble reading Yiddish, even in transliterated form. But if I read it out loud, I hear it in German and can understand it right away.
There's a lot of great humor in Yiddish songs. I especially liked the creativity of the first verse:

1. A maysele fun okh un vey
Pasirt in land fun KGB
Dort in mitn Ukraine
Rut zikh sheyn nit mer di Shkhine