This collection includes rare songs dealing with childhood, love, celebration, work, hope, and the holocaust drawing on theater, Hasidic and folk music. Beloved gems such as "Yidish Redt Zikh Azoy Sheyn" and "Vu Nemt Men a Bisele Mazl" are joined with newly popular favories and historical songs. Includes Yiddish texts, transliterations, translations, historical background, melody line and guitar chords.
Complete song list:
Shteyt in feld a beymele
Shlof, mayn feygele
Nor a mame
Heyda nu, tsurik in kheyder
Oy, vet mikh der rebe shmaysn
A sheyner tog
Ver der ershter vet lakhn
A yingele, a meydele
Mir kumen on
Brontshele
Ikh hob dikh lib vi a peysadekhdikh rosl
Ikh bin shoyn a meydl in di yorn
Shoyn tsvey-dray yor az mir firn a libe
Ikh zits mir bay mayn arbet un ikh arbet
Du maydele, du fayns
Nem mir aroys a ber fun vald
Kh’hob gelibt a meydl fun akhtsn yor
Vu bistu geven?
Vos dreystu zikh arum bay mayne fentsterlekh?
Vu iz dos gesele?
Er hot mir tsugezogt
Der kashtnboym
Sorele
In der fintster
In mayn gortn
Es iz nokh faran aza blum
Eyder ikh leyg zikh shlofn
S’falt a shney
Alef—indikes
Shlof, mayn kind, shlof keseyder
Koyft a tsaytung!
Der kremer
Yidn shmidn
Di svet-shap
Shnel loyfn di reder
Di lena
Barikadn
Di tsukunft
Zingendik
Mayne khaveyrim
Dos naye lid
Lekhayim!
Khatskele
Lomir onheybn tsu derklern
Funem sheynem vortsl aroys
Tonu rabonen
Hob ikh mir a mantl
Hirsh Dovid
Kol mekadesh shevii
In a shtetele pitshe-poy
Itsik shpitsik
A gut-mogn, Feyge Soshe
Yosl un Sore-Dvoshe
Varnitshkes
Der oytser
Nisim, nisim
Nisim venifloes
Tshiribim
Lif fun Mendl Beylis
Lid fun Leo Frenk
Khurbn titanik
Lid fun kishenever pogrom
Di khasene iz geven in der kazarme
Zishe Breytbard
Vilne
Sore un Rifke
Krokhmalne gas
Der yold iz mikh mekane
Ikh ganve in der nakht
Dos kleyne tsigaynerl
Shpil, gitar
Fraytik oyf der nakht
Amol iz geven a yid
Der eybershter iz der mekhutn
Royz, royz
Dos freylekhe khosidl
Tsvey briv tsum lyader rebn
Tsion
In mitn veg shteyt a boym
Shnirele perele, gilderne fon
Tsi kenstu dos land?
Khalutsim gikher
Yidish redt zikh azoy sheyn
Dos lid fun mayn dor
Leyg dayn kop
Mit farmakhte oygn
Di beryozkele
Ikh un di velt
Aleyn in veg
Fregt di velt an alte kashe
Lozt arayn!
Tunkl brent a fayer
Vu nemt men parnose?
A grus fun di “trenshes”
Hu-tsa-tsa
Levin mit zayn “flying” mashin
Zumer bay nakht oyf di dekher
Dzhankoye
Kegn gold fun zun
S’iz der step
Mashinen hudyen binen
Dos freylekhe shnayderl
Dem zeydns nigndl
A glezele lekhayim
Shpil zhe mir a lidele in Yidish
S’yidishe meydele
Ikh bin a yid!
Am yisroel khay!
Shuldike umshuldike
Antshuldikt!
A yor nokh der khasene
Ze dos kleydl, tateshi
Kh’vil nisht keyn sakh nor a bisele
Blimelekh tsvey
Khave
Vu nemt men a bisele mazl?
Her, mayn kind, vi vintn brumen
Shvayg, kindele, shvayg, shvelbele
Lid fun kyalistoker geto
Eykho
Habeyt mishomayim ureey
Un a yingele vet zey firn