Re: [Cz-L] Re: Ikh hob a kleynem yingele

> Requested translation:
>Ikh hob a kleynem yingele, I have a little boy,
>>A zunele gor fayn! A son I have so cute,
>>Ven ikh derzey im dakht zikh mir, As I see him , so it seems,
>>Di gantse velt iz mayn. The entire world is mine.
>>
>>
>>Nor zeltn, zeltn zey ikh im, So scarecely that I see him,
>>
>>Mayn sheynem, ven er vakht, My beauty, when awake,
>>Ikh tref im imer shlofendik, I always see him when he sleeps,
>>
>>Ikh zey im gor bay nakht. And this , only at night.
>>
>>
>>Di arbet traybt mikh fri aroys My job makes me start so early,
>>
>>Un lozt mikh shpet tsurik; My coming home so late,
>>A fremd iz mir mayn eygn leyb! Even my body is strange to me,
>>
>>O, fremd mayn kind's a blik! And strange the look of my child.
>>
>>
>>Ikh kum tsuklemterheyt aheym, When I come home at dusk,
>>In finsternish gehilt, - Engulfed by darkness
>>
>>Mayn blaykhe froy dertseylt mir bald, My wife ,so pale, she tells me soon,
>>
>>Vi fayn dos kind zikh shpilt, How nice , the child it plays
>>
>>
>>Vi zis es redt, vi klug es fregt: And how it speaks, so clever asks:
>>
>>"O, mame, gute ma, " Oh mother, oh good mom,
>>
>>Ven kumt un brengt a peni mir When comes and brings a penny me,
>>
>>Mayn guter, guter pa?" My good, so good my Pa
>>
>>
>>Ikh her es tsu un ayl - es muz, - So far so good , Hardy
>>Yo, yo, es muz gesheyn!
>>Di foterlibe flakert oyf:
>>Es muz mayn kind mikh zeyn!....
>>
>>Ikh shtey bay zayn gelegerl
>>Un zey, un her, un sha!
>>A troym bavegt di lipelekh:
>>"O, vu iz, vu iz pa?"
>>
>>Ikh kush di bloye eygelekh,
>>Zey efn'n zikh - "o, kind!"
>>Zey zeyen mikh, zey zeyen mikh,
>>Un shlisn zikh geshvind.
>>
>>"Do shteyt dayn papa, tayerer,
>>A penele dir, na!"
>>A troym bavegt di lipelekh:
>>"O, vu iz, vu iz pa?"
>>
>>Ikh blayb tseveytikt un tseklemt,
>>Farbitert un ikh kler:
>>"Ven du ervakhst a mol, mayn kind,
>>Gefinstu mikh nit mer"....
>>
>>More about this song in
>>http://shakti.trincoll.edu/~mendele/vol08/vol08.109
>>
>>Iosif Vaisman
>>
>

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