CD015-02

Title of Collector

Dos elente kind

Title

Dos elnte kind

First Line

Es yogt mikh ver, s’yogt un lozt nit tsu ru

Performer

Sidor Belarsky

Instrumentation

vocal (male), piano

Composer

Yankl Krimski? Mirsky?

Author

Shmerke Kaczerginski

Genre

Yiddish Song

Language

Yiddish

Song Text

Es yogt mikh ver, s’yogt un lozt nit tsu ru –
O mame, mayn mamele, vu bistu, vu?
||: Es zukht dikh dayn Sorele, s’ruft dikh dayn kind
Es yomert un voyet in feld un der vint :||

Der tate nito, ver veyst, vu er iz… -
Es hot im gefangen a groyzamer riz.
||: Di nakht shvarts geven iz, ven dos iz geshen;
Nokh shvartser dos ponim der mames geven. :||

In vogl fun tog, in vander fun nakht
In umru fun shlof ligt dos kind un es trakht/dakht(?).
||: Zi dakht, az zi hert shoyn fun tatn di trit
Di mame farvigt zi un zingt ir a/dos lid… :||

Az du vest amol a mamele zayn,
Zolstu dayne kinder dertseyln dem payn.
||: Vi tate un mame gelitn fun faynd -
Farshelt dan dem nekhtn un bentsh dan dem haynt! :||

Duration

3:06 min

Sources

probably from the album: Sidor Belarsky in a Yiddish Song Recital
cf. Kaczerginski singing himself (slightly different): http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/music/detail.php?content=lonely