Subject: RE: Origins: Anniversary Song: 'Oh how we danced...'
From:
Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jan 23 - 09:15 PM
I'll have to reformat this later, but look at this:
http://archive.chazzanut.com/jewish-music/msg18745.html
>Yiddish lyrics by Chaim Tauber. (The original copyright was granted to the
>arranger, Henry Lefkowitch, in 1947.) Tauber's text (including an
>additional verse that may or may not be his) is as follows:
>
> Akh, yene nakht, yene gliklikhe nakht
> hot freyd on a shir far undz beyde gebrakht.
> Tsum ershtn mol ven ikh hob dikh gezen [gezeyn],
> geshpilt hot dan di muzik azoy sheyn.
>
> Tsvey yunge hertser mir zenen geven [geveyn],
> libes gefiln umshuldik un reyn.
> Gedrikt hob ikh dir azoy tsertlikh tsu mir,
> zikh ayngelibt bald in dir.
>
> Koym zikh dervart, fun der shul nor aroys,
> gefayert a khasene, glik azoy groys.
> Gedenkstu di nakht, s'hot geshpilt di muzik,
> dem zelbn valts fun glik.
>
> Kum, tants mit mir undzer valts fun amol,
> Gehat nor mit dir hob ikh glik on a tsol.
> Biz in mayn toyt blaybt mir liber fun alts
> fun yener nakht undzer khasene valts.
>
>Tsugegebener ferz:
>
> Lebt nokh di nakht azoy frish vi amol,
> freyd un layd durkhgemakht hobn mir on a tsol.
> Khotsh zilber di hor un di fis oykh shoyn mid,
> In harts klingt gor klor fun dem tants undzer lid.
>
>
>Some variants can be found in vol. 3 and 7 of MENDELE
>.
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sj
