R-001(a)

Lama Suka Zu (Heb) — למה סכּה זוּ (עבֿרית)

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

8837

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Lama suka zu, aba tov sheli, lama suka zu, aba tov sheli

First line (Hebrew):

למה סכּה זוּ, אבּא טוֹב שלי, למא סכּה זוּ, אבּא טוֹב שלי ?

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Language:

Hebrew

Her Nor Du Sheyn Meydele — הער נאָר דו שײן מײדעלע

Also known as:

Zog Mir Du Sheyn Meydele

Also known as:

Her nor, du schejn Mejdele

Also known as:

Zog Mir Sheyn Meydele

Genre:

Love/Privation/Emigration

Subject:

Journey/Depravation/Emigration

Origin:

Alb K-023(a)/ML MTAG 32/Alb K-075(a)/

Transliteration:

ML MTAG 32/Alb R-001(a)/Alb K-075(a)/Alb N-020(a)/

Translation:

Alb R-001(a)/Alb N-020(a)/Alb K-075(a)/G-069(a)

Music:

ML MTAG 32

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

6423

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Her nor, du sheyn meydele, her nor, du fayn meydele,

First line (Yiddish):

הער נאָר, דו שײן מײדעלע, הער נאָר דו פֿײַן מײדעלע, װאָס װעסטו...

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Language:

Yiddish

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:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

6908

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Hulyet, hulyet beyze vintn, fray bahersht di velt,

First line:

הוליעט, הוליעט בײזע װינטן, פֿרײַ באַהערשט די װעלט,

Track comment:

Tranliteration and translation with album notes.

Bay Dem Shtetl — בײַ דעם שטעטל

Also known as:

Shtetl M.O.

Also known as:

In The Valley

Also known as:

In Mayn Shtetl Shteyt A Shtibl

Genre:

Folk/Children

Subject:

Shtetl/Home/Parents/Family/Animals/Barnyard Sounds/Joy

Origin:

Rub Oak 95/R-007(b)/Kinderbuch 164/Alb L-062(a)

Transliteration:

Rub Oak 16/Alb O-001(c)/Kinderbuch 164/Alb R-001(a)/Alb R-007(b)/Alb R-007(f)1

Translation:

Rub Oak 16/Alb R-007(b)/Kinderbuch 165/Alb R-007(f)1

Music:

Kinderbuch 164/Rub Oak 16

Additional song notes:

See" Bay Dem Shtetl" Liner notes on Alb P-038(b) and L-061(a) credit Moyshe Oysher as composer and Zalmen Rozental with the text. Translation and Translitliteration also on Alb K-051(l) - Recorded under title as Shtetl M.O.

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

2020

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Author:

Rozental, Zalmen — ראָזענטאַל, זלמן

First line:

Bay dem shtetl shteyt a shtibl, mit a grinem dakh, mit a..

First line (Yiddish):

בײַ דעם שטעטל שטײט אַ שטיבל, מיט אַ גרינעם דאַך, מיט אַ גרינעם..

Track comment:

Translat, translit with album notes.

Language:

Yiddish

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:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

2987

Artist:

Mills, Alan

First line:

Akh, vi di yorn zaynen farforn, Zayt Ikh bin milner ot o do?

First line (Yiddish):

אַך, װי די יאָרן זײַנען פֿאָרפֿאָרן, זײַט איך בין מילנער אָט אָ דאָ ?

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Language:

Yiddish

Dayenu — דינוּ

Genre:

Holiday/Haggadah/Passover/

Subject:

Sufficiency/Torah/Sabbath/Israel/Exodus/Egypt/Thankfullness

Origin:

Coopersmith NJS 54

Transliteration:

Coopersmith NJS 54/Alb K-022(b)/Alb R-001(a)/Schwartz 14

Translation:

Coopersmith NJS 54/Alb R-001(a)/Schwartz 14/Metro Album 13

Music:

Coopersmith NJS 54/Schwartz 14/Metro Album 13

Related information in folder 696:

Comments:

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

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

2922

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

First line:

Ilu hotse hotsianu, hotsianu mi mitsrayim, hotsianu mitsrayim, dayenu…

First line (Hebrew):

אלו הוֹציא, הוֹציאנוּ, הוֹציאנוּ ממצרים, ממצרים הוֹציאנוּ, דיינוּ.

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Language:

Hebrew

Eyn Mol Tu Ikh Zikh Banayen — אײן מאָל טו איך זיך באַנײַען

Also known as:

Eyn Mol

Genre:

Folk/Humorous

Subject:

Poverty/Drinking/Shabos/Whiskey/Dance/Drunk/Maiden

Song comment:

Borukh Elokeynu- Varient

Origin:

Alb K-051(e)/Alb B-090(x)

Transliteration:

Alb K-051(e)/Alb R-001(a)/Alb B-090(x)

Translation:

Alb R-001(a)/Alb K-051(e)

Related information in folder 132:

Document type:

Article

Author:

Chana Mlotek

Publisher:

Yiddish Forward

Date:

12/26/2004

Comments:

Reply to reader requesting information. Refers to different sorts and versions of various songs.

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

4999

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Eyn mol (4x), eyn mol tu ikh zikh banayen,

First line:

אײן מאָל (4מ), אין מאָל טו איך זיך באַנײַען, אַ גאַנצע װאָך...

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album title.

Du Du — דו דו

Author:

Greenblatt, Aliza — גרינבלאַט, עליזה

Genre:

Literary Origin/Love

Subject:

Shore/Seek/Wave/Voice/Flowers/Dream/Secrets/Desire/Longing

Origin:

Album L-038(d)

Transliteration:

Album L-038(d)Album N-002(b)- Partial

Translation:

Album L-038(d)/Album N-002(b)- Partial

Additional song notes:

You You Liner notes indicate that the music is "Traditional Palestinian

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

4343

Author/Composer:

Greenblatt, Aliza — גרינבלאַט, עליזה

Artist:

Raasche

First line:

Kh'gey arum baym breg fun yam Un zukh dikh alts arum,

First line:

כ'גײ אַרום בײַם ברעג פֿון ים, און זוך דיך אַלץ אַרום,

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

In An Orem Shtibele — אין אַן אָרעם שטיבעלע

Author:

Korman, Moyshe — קאָרמאַן, משה (1884-1928)

Composer:

Gelbart, Mikhl — געלבאַרט, מיכל

Genre:

Popular/Children

Subject:

Mother/Child/Father/Clothes/Love/Poverty

Song comment:

Refrain similar to "Patsh, Patsh, Kikhelekh"

Transliteration:

C-042(b)

Translation:

Alb C-042(b)

Additional song notes:

In a House of Poverty/From liner notes of C-042(b)-popular in Yiddish Schools in US and Poland in the 1930's

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

7314

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

In an orem shtibele, ovnt-tsayt baym koymen, shpilt a libe..

First line:

אין אַן אָרעם שטיבעלע, אָװנט-צײַט בײַם קױמען, שפּילט אַ ליבע...

Track comment:

Transliteration and Translation with album notes.

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:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

9166

Artist:

Raasche

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,

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Nem Aroys A Ber Fun Vald — נעם אַרױס אַ בער פֿון װאַלד

Genre:

Folk/Humor

Subject:

Bear/Forest/Children/Virgin/Fools/Shirts/Ladder/Fish

Transliteration:

Alb R-001(a)/Alb C-035(e)

Translation:

Alb R-001(a)/Alb C-036(e)

Additional song notes:

Take A Bear Out Of The Forest

Related information in folder 423:

Document type:

Article

Author:

Gus Tyler

Publisher:

Forward

Date:

1/11/2002

Comments:

Transliteration and text of Nem Aroys A Ber Fun Vald.

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

10970

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Nem aroys a ber fun vald, un lern im oys shraybn,

First line:

נעם אַרױס אַ בער פֿון װאַלד, און לערן אים אױס שרײַבען,

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Ot Azoy Neyt A Shnayder — אָט אַזױ נײט אַ שנײַדער

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Occupation/Tailor/Poverty

Origin:

Rubin Oak 90/Alb R-001(a)/Alb R-007(a)/Alb R-007(f)2/Alb R-007(g)/Alb B-004(c)

Transliteration:

Rubin Oak 50/Alb R-001(a)/Alb H-002(c))Alb R-007(f)2/Alb R-007(g)/Alb B-004(c)

Translation:

Rubin Oak 50/Alb R-001(a)/Alb R-007(a)Alb R-007(f)2/Alb L-049(a)/Alb B-004(c)/

Music:

Rubin Oak 50

Additional song notes:

See Gottlieb 216-17 for relationship between Ot Azoy Neyt A Shnayder and That's The Way A Tailor Sews (The Tailor Song)./ Recorded under title "Shnayder" by the Budapester Klezmer Band [Alb B-065(c)].

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

11600

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

First line:

Ot azoy neyt a shnayder, ot azoy neyt er dokh!

First line:

אַט אַזױ נײט אַ שנײַדער, אָט אַזױ נײט ער דאָך!

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

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:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

12921

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

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…

Track comment:

From the operetta "Shulamis"

Language:

Yiddish

Lekoved Dem Heylign Shabos — לכּבֿד דעם הײליגן שבּת

Also known as:

Rebenyu

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Shabos/Food/Poverty/Challah/Fish/Meat/Faith/Rebe

Origin:

Alb R-001(a)

Transliteration:

Alb R-001(a)

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

12677

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Rebenu, rebenu, "vos iz, rebenyu, rebenyu, "vos iz",

First line:

רבּיניו, רבּיניו, "װאָס איז", רבּינין, רבּיניו, "װאָס איז,"

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Reyzele — רײזעלע (ווידי

Author:

Gebirtig, Mordkhe — געבירטיג, מרדכי

Composer:

Gebirtig, Mordkhe — געבירטיג, מרדכי

Genre:

Love/Courtship/Folk

Subject:

Love/Courtship

Origin:

ML MTAG 48/Alb L-023(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb B-007(b)Belarsky Fav 31

Transliteration:

ML MTAG 48/Alb L-023(a)/Alb O-001(b)/Alb R-001(a)/Belarsky Fav 15

Translation:

Alb R-001(a)/Alb H-006(a)/Alb R-033(a)/Alb B-007(b)/Belarsky Fav 15

Music:

ML MTAG 50/Gold Zem 186/Belarsky Fav 15

Additional song notes:

See Heskes 1, entries 2165, 2931, 3281 respecting sheet music. See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell.

Related information in folder 731:

Comments:

1. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

12750

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Shteyt zikh dort in gesele, shtil fartrakht a hayzele,

First line (Yiddish):

שטײט זיך דאָרט אין געסעלע, שטיל פֿאַרטראַכט אַ הײַזעלע,

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Language:

Yiddish

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:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

14855

Artist:

Mills, Alan

First line:

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

First line (Yiddish):

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

Track comment:

Transliteration and translation with album title.

Language:

Yiddish

Undzer Nigndl — אונדזער ניגונדל

Also known as:

A Nigndl (Undzer Nigndl)

Also known as:

Hobn Mir A Nigndl

Also known as:

Our Song

Author:

Shternheim, Nokhem — שטערנהײַם, נחום

Composer:

Shternheim, Nokhem — שטערנהײַם, נחום

Genre:

Folk/Literary Origin

Subject:

Family/Melody/Tune/Parents/Children/Grandparents/Joy

Origin:

ML MTAG 158/Shternheim 70/Alb G-026(a)/Alb R-022(a)/Alb C-015(a)

Transliteration:

Shernheim 70/Alb C-015(a)/ML MTAG 158/Alb D-016(a)/Alb R-001(a)

Translation:

Alb R-001(a)/Vinkov 2 68/Alb R-022(a)/Alb J-007(a)/Alb L-024(b)Alb M-129(a&b)

Music:

Shternheim 70/ML MTAG 158/Gold Zem 86/

Additional song notes:

Our Melody Also Translation and transliteration on Alb 126(a) J. Vernik credited as composer on Alb W-034(b)

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

15928

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Hobn mir a nigundl, In nakhes un in freydn, Zingen mir es,

First line (Yiddish):

האָבן מיר אַ ניגונדל, אין נחת און אין פֿרײדן, זינגען מיר עס,

Language:

Yiddish

Vos Zhe Vilstu ? — װאָס זשע װילסטו ?

Also known as:

Mayn Tayer Kind

Genre:

Folk

Subject:

Occupation/Husband/Mother/Daughter/Match

Origin:

Bugatch 106

Transliteration:

Silverman SJP 6/Alb R-001(a)/Gold Zem 156/Irza 17/Ephemera 1458

Translation:

Alb H-006(a)/Alb R-001(a)/Silverman SJP 7/Bugatch 106/Ephemera 1458

Music:

Silverman SJP 6/Gold Zem 155/Irza 17/Bugatch 106

Additional song notes:

See Ephemera 80 for singable English adapation by Edith Finell. Ephemera 1458: See 2016 program for translat and translit

Related information in folder 737:

Comments:

1. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

16738

Vocal:

Mills, Alan

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Vos zhe vilstu, a shnayder far a man, a shnayder far a man,

First line:

װאָס זשע װילסטו, אַ שנײַדער פֿאַר אַ מאַן, אַ שנײַדער פֿאָר אַ מאַן,

Track comment:

Tranliteration and translation with album notes.

Yankele — יאַנקעלע

Also known as:

Shlof Mayn Yankele

Also known as:

Shlof Shoyn Mayn Yankele

Author:

Gebirtig, Mordkhe — געבירטיג, מרדכי

Composer:

Gebirtig, Mordkhe — געבירטיג, מרדכי

Genre:

Folk/Lullabye

Subject:

Child/Sleep/Teeth/Crying/Student/Wet/Khosn

Origin:

ML MTAG 08/Alb K-014(a)/GYF 60/Alb L-022(a)/Alb F-024(e)/

Transliteration:

GYF 63/ML MTAG 08/Alb R-007(f)1/Alb R-001(a)/Alb P-001(a)/Alb L-022(a)

Translation:

Alb H-006(a)/Alb G-022(a)/Alb K-014(a)/GYF 63/Alb O-001(c)/Alb P-001(a

Music:

ML MTAG 09/GYF 61/

Additional song notes:

See also Ephemera 918 for Yiddish text, translation and transliteration

Related information in folder 745:

Comments:

1. Transliteration and singable Yiddish translation by Edith Finell.

On album:

R-001(a) (Raasche and Alan Mills sing Jewish Folk Songs)

Track ID:

17133

Vocal:

Raasche

First line:

Shlof zhe mir shoyn, Yankele, mayn sheyner, Di eygelekh,

First line (Yiddish):

שלאָף זשע מיר שױן, יאַנקעלע, מײַן שײנער, די אײגעלעך, די...

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Transliteration and translation with album notes.

Language:

Yiddish

Style:

Folk