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Table of Contents:

• Love. Fun vanen heybt zich on a libe? = How does a love start?
• Vuszhe vils tu? = What do you want?
• Di gilderne pave = The golden peacock
• A libe, a libe = A love, yes, a love
• A cholem = A dream
• Margaritkes = Daisies
• Tum balalaika
• Papir iz doch vays = Oh, paper is white
• Libster mayner = My sweetheart
• Yomi, Yomi
• Her nor, du shayn maydele = Listen, my sweet pretty girl
• Gey ich mir shpatsirn = Once I went out strolling
• Du meydel, du fayns = You pretty little girl
• Lomir zich iberbetn = Let's make up
• Di zun vet arunter geyn = The sun will soon set
• Unter a kleyn beymele = Sitting 'neath a little tree
• Oy, dortin, dortin = Away out yonder
• Bin ich mir gegangen fishelech koyfn = I went to the market, to buy some fish there
• Biztu mit mir broygez? = Are you angry with me?
• Oyfn ganikl = Upon the doorstep

• Shvartse karshelech = Black cherries ; Children. Jamele
• Unter dem kinds vigele = Under baby's little crib
• Shlof, mayn feygele = Sleep, my little bird
• Oyfn pripetshok = On the hearth
• Shlof, mayn kind = Sleep, my child
• Vigndig a fremd kind = Rocking someone else's child (The baby-sitter's complaint)
• Rozhinkes mit mandlen = Raisins and almonds
• Dray yingelech = Three little boys
• Bay dem shtetl shteyt a shtibl = In the village there's a cabin
• O, ir kleyne lichtelech = Oh, you little candle light
• Hulyet, hulyet, kinderlech = Play, my dearest little ones
• Birobizhaner viglid = Birobidjan lullaby
• A fidler = A fiddler ; Lechayim!. In der kuznye = In the smithy
• Di bord = The beard
• Di mechutonim geyen = The inlaws are arriving
• Di soche = The plow
• Shprayz ich mir = Walking down the highway
• Dos lidl fun broyt = The song of bread
• A chazandl oyf shabes = A cantor for the Sabbath
• Bayt zhe mir oys a finfuntsvantsiker = Change for me this twenty-fiver
• Ale mentshen tantzendik = Folks are their dancingest
• A glezele lechayim = A toast to life
• Chatskele, chatskele
• Hey! Zhankoye
• Hamentashn
• Birobidjan
• Vi azoy trinkt a keyser tey? = How does a tsar drink tea?
• Achtsik er un zibetsik zi = Eighty he and seventy she
• Di mezinke oysgegebn = My youngest daughter's married
• Ch'bin a bocher, a hultay = I'm a wandering fellow
• Kum aher, du filozof = Come to me, philosopher
• Di ban = The train
• Sha! Shtil! = Shh! Quiet!
• Tshiribim
• Lechayim! = To life!
• Der rebe Elimelech = Rabbi Elimelech ; It's hard to be a Jew. Moyshele, mayn fraynd = Moyshele, my friend
• Tsum hemerl = To the hammer
• Lomir ale zingen a zemerl = Everbody sing a little song
• Hirsh lekert
• Dem milners trern = The miller's tears
• Keshenever pogrom = Kishinev pogrom
• Fonye ganev = Fonye, the thief
• Fonye dinen iz zeyer biter = Serving Fonye is very bitter
• Fraytik in der fri = Early Friday morn
• Farvos zol mayn chosn a soldat? = Why should they make a soldier of my love?
• Zayzhe mir gezunt = I must say farewell
• Yoshke fort avek = Yoshke's leaving now
• Dos fertsnte yor = In nineteen-fourteen
• A ganeyve = A robbery
• Hot rachmones = Have compassion
• Mit a nodl, on a nodl = With a needle, or without one
• Zol ich zayn a rov? = Should I be a rabbi?
• Maykomashmalon = What does it mean?
• Shlof mayn kind, shlof keseyder = Sleep my child, sleep securely
• Ot azoy neyt a shnayder = Stitch away, little taylor
• Un du akerst = Oh, you plow
• Dire gelt = Rent money
• Bulbes = Potatoes
• Bin ich mir a shnayderl = I'm a little tailor
• Vi zenen mayne yunge yorne = Where are my youthful years? ; Amerike! Amerike!. Lidl fun goldenem land = Song of the golden land
• Shikt a tiket = Send a ticket
• Eyn zach vel ich = One thing I ask
• Frayhayt statue = Statue of liberty
• Kesl gardn = Castle garden
• Lebn zol Kolombus = Long life to Columbus
• Kolombus, ich hob tsu dir gornit = Columbus, I give you the first prize
• Elis Aylan = Ellis Island
• New Yorker trern = The tears of New York
• Eyder ich leyg mich shlofn = No sooner do I lie down
• Mayn rue plats = My resting place
• Mayn yingele = My little son
• Svetshop = Sweatshop
• Dem pedlers brivl = The peddler's letter
• Arbeter froyen = You working women
• A briv fun Amerike = A letter from America
• In kamf = In struggle
• Vos vet zayn der sof? = What will be the end?
• To gey zich lernen tantsn = Just go and learn to dance now ; The Holocaust. Es brent = On fire
• Unter di churves fun Poyln = Under the ruins of Poland
• Itsik vitnberg
• Aroys iz in vilne a nayer bafel = In vilna was issued a brand-new decree
• Geto lid = Ghetto song
• Yeder ruft mich ziamele = People call me Ziamele
• S'dremlin feygl = Birds are dozing
• Yugnt-himn = Youth hymn
• Neyn, neyn, neyn = No, no, no
• Shtil, di nacht = Still, the night
• Zog nit keynmol = Never say
• Ani maamin = I believe.

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Contributors:

Silverman, Jerry, 1931-

Languages:

Yiddish
English

Language Notes:

Item content: Yiddish, English
Translated from (original): Yiddish

Subjects:

Folk songs, Yiddish

Jews — Music

Jews

Genres:

Music

General Notes:

Yiddish folk songs; arranged in melodies with chord symbols; additional verses printed as text, with added chord symbols.
"A Scarborough book."
Yiddish (romanized) words with English translations.
Guitar chord diagrams: p. [206-207].

Physical Description:

1 score (xvi, 204 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm

Call Numbers:

M1852 .Y52 1983

ISBNs:

0812828291
9780812828290

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

81040331

OCLC Numbers:

9802062