M-035(e)

Shir Hashirim (Tsu A Hirsh) — שיר השירים (צו אַ הירש, ייִדיש)

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

13881

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Tsu a hirsh is geglikhn mayn gelibter, oder tsu a hind a youngn…

First line (Yiddish):

צו אַ הירש איז געגליכן מײַן געליבטער, אָדער צו אַ הינד אַ יונגן...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

Hulyet, Hulyet, Beyze Vintn (Gelbart) — הוליעט, הוליעט, בײזע װינטן (געלבאַרט)

Also known as:

A Vinter Lid

Author:

Reisen, Avrom — רײזען, אַבֿרהם

Composer:

Gelbart, Mikhl — געלבאַרט, מיכל

Genre:

Literary Origin

Subject:

War/Violence/Hope/Winds

Origin:

Alb Y-007(a)/Vinkov 4 25/Ephemra 470/Sh Sh 107

Transliteration:

Alb K-023(a)/Alb R-001(a)/Vinkov 4 25/Ephemra 470/Alb 126(a)

Translation:

Rubin Voi 360/Alb R-001(a)/Vinkov 4 25/Ephemra 470/Alb 126(a)

Music:

Alb Y-007(a)/Vinkov 4 25/Sh Sh 106

Additional song notes:

Revel, Revel, Angry Winds

Related information in folder 470:

Comments:

1. Article by Chana Mlotek published in the Yiddish Forward on August 4, 2006 titled "'Hulyet Huylet.." gefint zikh in tsvey lider" Contributed by reader Ben Tshisin. 2. Yiddish text, transliteration and translation

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

6907

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Hulyet, hulyet beyze vintn, fray bahersht di velt,

First line:

הוליעט, הוליעט בײזע װינטן, פֿרײַ באַהערשט די װעלט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Khapt Im Nemt Im — כאַפט אים נעמט אים

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Thief/Capture/Arrest/Shirts/Holes/Candlesticks/Dmaged

Transliteration:

Alb O-016(b)

Translation:

Alb O-016(b)

Additional song notes:

Similar to "A Ganeyve"

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

191

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Khapt im un bint im un zetst im ayn. Efsher vet er zikh...

First line:

כאַפּט אים און בינט אים און זעצט אים אײַן. אפֿשר װעט ער מודה זײַן

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Dem Milners Trern — דעם מילנערס טרערן

Author:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Composer:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Aging/Lament/Expulsion/Occupation/Miller

Origin:

Warsh Ye Yid4/Alb Z-012(a)/Belarsky Fav 32/Alb G-022(a)/Alb B-007(c)

Transliteration:

Alb B-007(c)/ML MTAG 120/Belarsky Fav 32/Alb G-022(a)/Alb R-001(a)/

Translation:

Silver 114/Alb R-001(a)/Belarsky Fav 10/Alb B-005(b)/Alb B-007(c)/Sh Sh 202/

Music:

Belarsky Fav 10/Gottlieb 48/Alb S-103(a)

Additional song notes:

The Miller's Tears.Ephemera 1458: See 2016 program for translat and translit Similar melody to "Do Not Forsake Me, O My Darling" - from High Noon See Gottlieb, p. 48 for relationship of melody to Dimitri Tomkin's "High Noon"

Related information in folder 185:

Document type:

Article

Author:

Chana Mlotek

Publisher:

Yiddish Forward

Date:

7/25/2003

Comments:

Response to letter from reader Net Groginsky regarding additional verses to Der Milners Trern.

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

2986

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Oy, vifl yorn zaynen farforn, Zayt Ikh bin milner ot o do?

First line (Yiddish):

אױ, װיפֿל יאָרן זײַנען פֿאָרפֿאָרן, זײַט איך בין מילנער אָט אָ דאָ ?

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Dremlender Yingele — דרעמלענדער ייִנגעלע

Author:

Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער

Composer:

Jassinovsky, Khazn Pinkhos — יאַסינאָװסקי, פּינחס

Genre:

Literary Origin

Subject:

Death/Forboding

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

4311

Author:

Leivick, Halper — לײװיק, האַלפּער

Composer:

Jassinovsky, Khazn Pinkhos — יאַסינאָװסקי, פּינחס

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Dremlender yingele, yingele mayn, kukt nit tsu mir in di...

First line:

דרעמלענדער ייִנגעלע, ייִנגעלע מײַן, ניט זיך צו מיר אין די אױגן...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Leyg Ikh Mayn Kepele — לײג איך מײַן קעפּעלע

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Love/Family/In Laws

Origin:

Ber Fef 282/

Transliteration:

Alb K-005(a)/Alb R-001(a)/

Translation:

Alb K-005(a)/Alb R-001(a)/

Music:

Ber Fef 282

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

9165

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Leyg ikh mayn kepele Oyf mayn mames betele, Geyt mayn mame..

First line:

לײג איך מײַן קעפּעלע אױף מײַן מאַמעס בעטעלע, גײט מײַן מאַמע פֿאַרבײַ,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Mayn Tate A Koyen — מײַן טאַטע אַ כּוהן

Author:

Gebirtig, Mordkhe — געבירטיג, מרדכי

Composer:

Gebirtig, Mordkhe — געבירטיג, מרדכי

Genre:

Literary Origin/Folk/Humorous/Irony

Subject:

Father/Threat/Bully/Cohen/Boast/Children

Origin:

Gebir ML 11/ML MTAG 219/Alb G-022(b)/Gebir Lemm 49/Gebir MGZ 39/Gebir LTSAR 14

Transliteration:

ML MTAG 219/ Vinkov 5 15

Translation:

Alb G-022(b)/Gebir SIMC 8/Vinkov 5 15

Music:

Gebir ML 11/ML MTAG 219/Gebir Lemm 49/Gebir MGZ 39/Vinkov 15

Additional song notes:

My Father Is A Cohen

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

10001

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Kh'hob far dir, mayn held, keyn moyre, Shlog mikh nor,

First line (Yiddish):

כ'האָב פֿאַר דיר, מײַן העלד, קײן מורא, שלאָג מיך נאָר, פּרוביר,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Cocert/Klezmer/Folk

Length:

2:16

Papirosn — פּאַפּיראָסן

Also known as:

A Kalte Nakht

Also known as:

A Kalte Nakht (Papirosn)

Also known as:

El Chiclerito

Also known as:

Freylekhe Yidelekh

Also known as:

Sigaryot

Also known as:

Kupite Papirosy

Author:

Yablakoff, Herman — יאַבלאַקאָף, הערמאַן

Composer:

Yablakoff, Herman — יאַבלאַקאָף, הערמאַן

Genre:

Theatre/Lament

Subject:

Occupation/Cigarette Seller/Misfortune/Family

Origin:

Levin N 90/GYF 16/Alb L-023(a)/ML PYS 267/Alb F-024(e)/Alb G-035(b)

Transliteration:

Levin N 90/Alb L-023(a)/Alb K-007(b)/GYF 19/Alb F-042(a)/Alb L-048(a)

Translation:

Alb G-013(c)/GYF 19/Alb B-046(a)/Alb L-023(a)/Alb F-036(a)/Alb A-036(a

Music:

Levin N 90/Estella 10/GYF 17/ML PYS 267

Additional song notes:

Cigarettes/Author was inspired to write song after seeing child peddlers during German occupation of Grodno in WWI. See liner notes Alb S-083(a) Ephemera 1458: See 2016 program for translat and translit. Alb P-038(e) - translate

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

12078

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

A kalte nakht, a nebeldike finster umetum, shteyt a...

First line (Yiddish):

אַ קאַלטע נאַכט, אַ נעפלדיקע פֿינסטער אומעטום, שטײט אַ ייִנגעלע...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Raisins and Almonds

Also known as:

Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen

Also known as:

Shlof Mayn Kind Shlof

Author:

Goldfaden, Avrom — גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם

Composer:

Goldfaden, Avrom — גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

12920

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

In dem beys-hamikdosh, In a vinkl kheyder, zitst di almone..

First line (Yiddish):

אין דעם בית־המקדש, אין אַ װינקל־חדר, זיצט די אַלמנה בת־ציון…

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

From the operetta "Shulamis"

Language:

Yiddish

Sheyn Bin Ikh, Sheyn — שײַן בין איך, שײן

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Marriage/Match/Occupations/Secular/Rabbi/Children/Cradles

Origin:

Ephemera 1402/Vinkov 2 57

Transliteration:

Ephemera 1402/Vinkov 2 57

Translation:

Ephemera 1402/ Vinkov 2 57

Music:

Vinkov 2 57

Additional song notes:

I am Pretty

Related information in folder 695:

Comments:

1. Soviet version, reflecting changes from the original text, from Anna Sternshis's book "Soviet and Kosher".

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

13689

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Sheyn bin ikh, sheyn, Sheyn iz mayn nomen, Redt men mir...

First line (Yiddish):

שײן בין איך, שײן, שײן איז מײַן נאָמען, רעדט מען מיר שידוכים...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Tif In Veldele — טיף אין װעלדעלע

Genre:

Lament/Folk

Subject:

Tailor/Love/Yearning/Bird/Flew/Heartache/Tears/Sweetheart

Translation:

Alb S-002(h)/Alb S-002(h)

Additional song notes:

Deep in the Forest

Related information in folder 257:

Document type:

Music Sheet

Publisher:

Augsburg Fortress

Comments:

Melody to Tif In Veldele adapted for Advent song titled "Light One Candle to Watch the Messiah". Published in book titled, "With One Voice, A Lutheran Resource for Worship".

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

15332

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Tif in veldele shteyt a beymele, un di tsvaygelekh blien,

First line:

טיף אין װעלדעלע שטײט אַ בײמעלע, און די צװײַגעלעך בליִען,

Audio:

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Tayere Malke — טײַערע מלכּה

Also known as:

Bim Bom (Tayere Malke)

Also known as:

Der Bekher (Warshavsky)

Author:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Composer:

Warshavsky, Mark M. — װאַרשאַװסקי, מאָרק מ.

Genre:

Folk/Holiday/Peysekh/Passover

Subject:

Wife/Toast/Drinking/Passover/Enemies/Wine Cup/

Origin:

Alb L-001(a)/Warshav 19/Alb M-029(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb B-004(c)Kinderbuch 84

Transliteration:

Alb B-004(c)/Alb B-007(a)/Alb L-001(a)/Alb L-024(a)/Kinderbuch 85/CD K-029(j)

Translation:

Alb L-024(a)/Kinderbuch 85/Alb B-007(a)/Alb T-018(a)/CD K-029(j)/Sh Sh 200

Music:

ML YT 64/Kinderbuch 84

Additional song notes:

Originally titled "Der Bekher"

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

14854

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Tayere Malke, gezunt zolstu zayn, gis on dem bekher,

First line (Yiddish):

טײַערע מלכּה, געזונט זאָלסטו זײַן, גיס אָן דעם בעכער,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Recorded under "Der Becher"

Language:

Yiddish

Tumbalalajka — טום בלליקה

Also known as:

Tum Balalayke

Also known as:

Twistin' The Freylekhs (Instr)

Also known as:

Play Balalaike

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

15776

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Shteyt a bokher un er trakht, Trakht un trakht a gantse...

First line (Yiddish):

שטײט אַ בחור און ער טראַכט, טראַכט און טראַכט אַ גאַנצע נאַכט,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Unter Di Grininke Beymelekh — אונטער די גרינינקע בײמעלעך

Also known as:

Moyshelekh, Shloymelekh

Also known as:

Moyshelekh Un Shloymelekh

Author:

Bialik, Khaim Nakhman — ביאַליק, חיים נחמן

Composer:

Brunoff, Platon G. — ברונאָף, פּלאַטאָן ג.

Genre:

Literary Origin

Subject:

Children/Innocence/Eyes/Memory/Birds/Trees/Play

Origin:

ML PYP 225/Bugatch 126/Alb L-001(d)Alb D 004(d)/Alb B-015(b)/Sh Sh 227

Transliteration:

Bugatch 126/Vinkov 2 114/Alb L-001(d)/Alb D-004(d)

Translation:

Vinkov 2 114/Alb L-001(d)/Sh Sh 226

Music:

Vinkov 2 114/Bugatch 126

Additional song notes:

Under The Green Little Trees

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

16024

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Unter di grininke beymelekh, shpiln zikh moyshelekh,...

First line:

אונטער די גרינינקע בײמעלעך, שפּילן זיך משהלעך, שלמהלעך,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Unter Di Poylishe Grininke Beymelekh — אונטער די פּױלישע גרינינקע בײמעלעך

Author:

Papernikov, Yosef — פּאַפּערניקאָװ, יוסף

Composer:

Alter, Cantor Israel — אַלטער, חזן ישׂראל

Genre:

Literary Origin/Holocaust

Subject:

Poland/Chilren/Absence

Origin:

Vinkov 4 75/ML WAH 69/Alb B-003(a)/Alb D-004(g)

Transliteration:

Vinkov 4 75/ML WAH 68/Alb G-005(b)/Alb Z-010(g)/Alb F-032(c)

Translation:

Vinkov 4 75/ML WAH 68/Alb T-015(a)/Alb B-003(a)/Alb Z 010(g)/Alb D-004(g)/

Music:

Vinkov 4 75/MG WAH 68

Additional song notes:

Under The Polish Green Trees

Related information in folder 800:

Comments:

1. Letter from reader Arye Leyb Firstenberg pubished in the Yiddish Forverts in Chana Mlotek's column titled "A Gilgul Fun a Lid" about a mellody to "Unter Di Poylisher Grininke Beymelekh" by Leopold Kozlovski and its emotional effect upon listeners.

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

16034

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Unter di poylishe grininke beymelekh, shpiln zikh mer nit...

First line (Yiddish):

אונטער די פּױלישע גרינינקע בײמעלעך, שפּילן זיך מער ניט קײן...

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Track comment:

Based on Bialik's "Unter Di Grininke Beymelekh"

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Concert

Yoshke Fort Avek — יאָשקע פֿאָרט אַװעק

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Separation/Conscript/Soldier/Lament/Love

Origin:

Rubin Oak 87/Vinkov 3 261/ML PYS 106/

Transliteration:

Vinkov 3 261/Alb K-059(e)/Alb O-007(d)/Rubin Oak 76/Alb K-26(d)2/Alb S-098(b)

Translation:

Silverman SJP26/Alb K-030(a)/Alb K 26(d)2/Alb O-007(d)/Alb K-059(e)/ S-098(b)

Music:

Vinkov 3 261/ML PYS 106/

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

17801

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Artist:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Bak mir nit keyn bulkelekh, Ikh vel zey dokh nit esn.

First line (Yiddish):

באַק מיר ניט קײן בולעקלעך, איך װעל זײ דאָך ניט עסן.

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish

Zing Shtil — זינג שטיל

Also known as:

Es Hot Mir Mayn Tate

Author:

Younin, Wolf — יונין, װאָלף

Author:

Younin, Wolf — יונין, װאָלף

Composer:

Secunda, Sholom — סעקונדאַ, שלום

Composer:

Secunda, Sholom — סעקונדאַ, שלום

Genre:

Literary Origin

Subject:

Melody/Song/Quiet/Discovery/Advice/Father

Origin:

Boiberik Comp/ML PYS 182

Transliteration:

Boiberik Comp/ML PYS 182

Translation:

ML PYS 182

Music:

ML PYS 182

Additional song notes:

Boiberik Comp, Page 5 Song 10 of song pamphlet, no date given

On album:

M-035(e) (Sima & Arnold Miller Heritage:The Art of the Yid. Song Vol 5)

Track ID:

18057

Vocal:

Miller, Sima

Piano:

Miller, Arnold

First line:

Zing shtitl, gor shtil, az keyner fun undz zol nisht hern,

First line (Yiddish):

זינג שטיל, גאָר שטיל, אַז קײנער פֿון אנדז זאָל נישט הערן,

Audio:

Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)

Language:

Yiddish