[Cz-L] Songs of the working

Not all Czernowitze Jews were businessmen
or shopkeepers. Many were of the trades ,
 from those comes this song:

  Wer se weiss nischt,
 wer se weiss nischt,
 soll atzinder wissen.
  Wi schwer in bitter,
   Karg in schitter,
   Kimt ins un der Bissen.

   ( Those who dont know ,now should know,
     how hard and sparse we get our daily bread )
   Then the description of different trades:
  Bin ich mir a Schneiderl( always diminutive -why?)
   Then came a description of the taylors doings.
   Then came the Schussterl and so forth
   Wi schwer in bitter, karg in shitter,
   Anybody knows ?
   
Hardy

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