Thanks for reminding me, Joe. I had been told before that that was why the transliterations of Yiddish varied so much.

I have always read and been told that the original song was Yiddish and then it was 'translated' into the song that the Andrews Sisters made popular. (See the link I posted above re "History of Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen.") That's what I'm told by the staff and residents (and residents' families) of several Jewish retirement homes where I play and sing. (They were the ones who first "corrected" my understanding that the title phrase was in German.)

Genie