Re: [Cz-L] Other popular Yiddish children's songs

From: Berti <berti_at_netvision.net.il>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:03:32 +0200
To: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>, Czernowitz Genealogy and History <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Berti <berti_at_netvision.net.il>

You must mean this one:

Inter di grininke boimerlach,
Spilen sich Moischelach, Shloimelach,
Tzitzlach, kapotkalach peierlach,
Jingalech frisch wi di Eierlach.

Berti

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From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 6:26 PM
To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [Cz-L] Other popular Yiddish children's songs

> Another Yiddish song almost as popular as "Oyfen Pripetchik",
> was "Es is gevein a mul a pastachl"
>
> The words are:
>
> Es is gevein a mul a pastachl, a pastachl
> is im verloiren gegangen zein ein-einzig sheyfale
> zoogt er: Adoyny, Adoyny, mein sheyfale, mein sheyfale,
> nema, neshtu, nema, neshtu, yak sze yak, damoy paidyu?
>
> Another song similar to "Oyfen Pripetchik", in the sense
> of being about children learning, was about children sitting
> in the shade of a tree and being taught. All I can remember now,
> is that instead of being referred to as children or boys,
> the song refers to them as "Moishalech, Shloymalech".
>
> Does anyone remember such a song?
>
> And of course all of us were at some point sung to sleep with
> "Roszinkes und mandlen".
> I have recently sung it to my newborn grandson when he was screaming
> so loudly you could hear him in Strojinetz and he quieted down and
> peacefully went to sleep.
>
> Mimi

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