Favorite folk art and theater songs. Includes 115 songs, with well-known ballads as well as many newly rediscovered gems from the Yiddish theater and Eastern Europe. Each song is presented with Yiddish text, tranliterations, translations, melody line and guitar chords.
Complete song list:
Az ikj volt gehat dem keysers oytsres
Unter beymer
Unter di grininke beymelekh
In an orem shtibele
Ver hot aza yingele?
Bay dem shtetl
A kind a goldene
Ot geyt Yankele
Oy, a nakht a sheyne!
Oy, Abram
Lomir zikh iberbetn
Mamenyu, Iyubenyu
Vos toyg mir der sheyner vayngortn?
Du, du
Fisherlid
Unter a kleyn beymele
A malekh veynt
Der yunginker shnayderl
Di verbe
Ven es dremit dos shtetl
Laptshes
Leyg ikh mir in bet arayn
Tayere Malkele
Hershele
Shvartse oygn hobn fayer
Don un Doyne
Dos baytshl kreln
Umru mayne
Dos zangl
Hulyet, hulyet beyze vintn
Arbeter-froyen
Di dray neytorins
Der fodem
O, liber, mir hobn geshlosn
Der kranker shnayder
S'loyfn, s'yogn shvartse volkn
Oyfn boydem shloft der dakh
May-lid
Ergets vayt
Hof un gleyb
Zhamele
Der yid der shmid
Melokhe-melukhe
Di mame dertseylt
Geven a mol a yid mit a yidene
Dem zeydns brokhe
Zayt gezunterheyt!
Lid fun titanik
Yoshke fort avek
Vi shlekht un vi biter
Regndl
A nign
Leyg ikh mir mayn kepele
May-ko mash-me-lon
Mamenyu mayne
Tsen brider
Undzer rebenyu
Az der rebe tantst
Bin ikh mir a khosidl
Fun kosey biz kitev
Dem Bal-shem-tovs zemerl
Der rebe hot geheysn freylekh zayn!
Kotsk
Oy-vey, rebenyu
Reb Motenyu
Sha, shtil, makht nisht keyn gerider!
Sha, shtil, un nit gezorgt!
Sha, sha, es zol zayn shtil
In rod arayn
Yaneks khasene
Az ikh vel zogn “lekho doydi”
S'iz nito keyn nekhtn
Nokhemke, mayn zun
Di mashke
Itsik hot khasene gehat
Katarina moloditsa poydi syuda
Vos vet zayn az Mshiakh vet kumen
Yosl Ber
Dona, dona
Kh'vel shoyn mer nit ganvenen
Harshl
Zing shtil
Kholomen khaloymes
Zun in mayrev
Ver zingt es dort?
Vaylu
Toybn
Ovnt-lid
Di krenetse
Eybik
Tayere malke
Zog, maran
Zol nokh zayn shabes
Zamd un shtern
Yam-lid
Lomir zikh iberbetn, ovinu shebashomayim
Shivas tsion
Eyli, Eyli
Faryomert, farklogt
Yisrolik, kum aheym!
Dos pintele yid
Got un zayn mishpet iz gerekht
Zmires
Dem pedlers brivele
Elis-ayland
Motl der apreyter
Lid fun trayengl-fayer
Ikh bin a “broder” bay mayn vayb
Yidl mit fidl
Belz
Vu zaynen mayne zibn gute yor?
Papirosn
Mit keyn gelt tor men nit shtoltsirn
Vos geven iz geven un nito