Songs
Vi Azoy Trinkt A Keyser Tey? — װי אַזױ טרינקט אַ קיסר טײ?
- Also known as:
- Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser ?
- Also known as:
- How The Kaiser Drinks Tea
- Also known as:
- Rabosi
- Genre:
- Humorous/Satirical/Folk
- Subject:
- Emperor/Question/Tea/Sugar/Potatoes/Butter/Sleep/Soldiers
- Origin:
- Vinkov 3 47/SM 40
- Transliteration:
- Alb K-030(a)/Vinkov 3 47/SM 40
- Translation:
- Alb K-030(a)/Vinkov 3 47
- Music:
- Vinkov 3 46/SM 40
- Sheet music:
- Folder:
- 560
- Series:
- 4
- Arranger:
- Low, Leo
- Arranged for:
- Voice/Piano/Also may be used for solo and chorus
- Texts:
- Yiddish/Transliteration
- Publisher:
- Metro Music Co.
- Publisher address:
- 58 Second Ave, New York, NY
- Date:
- 1931
- Provenance:
- Schper-Rosenthal Sheet Music Collection, Gift of Faye & Jerry Rosenthal
- Mel & Shrifra Gold Project, NYBC Catlg #:
- 310
- First line:
- Raboysay robosay, ikh vil bay aykh fregn, Ikh vil bay aykh..
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּותי, איך וויל בײַ אײַך פֿרעגן, איך וויל בײַ אײַך פֿרעגן...
- Notes:
- Cover: Block Lettering Title in Yiddish and English, subtitled "Trinkt Tei" Title given as "Vi Der Keiser Lebt" / subtitled "Trinkt Tei". Price 35 cents
- Folder:
- 40
- Series:
- 1
- Arranger:
- Low, Leo
- Arranged for:
- Voice/Piano
- Texts:
- Yiddish/Transliteration
- Publisher:
- Metro Music Co
- Publisher address:
- 58 Second Avenue, New York
- Date:
- 1931
- Provenance:
- Gift of Barbara Moskow, March 2014
- First line:
- Raboysi, raboysi, ikh vil bay aykh fregn (2), frag־zhe (2)..
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּותי, איך וול בײַ אײַך פֿרעגן (2), פֿרעג־זשה (2), ענטפֿערט אַלע
- Notes:
- Block lettering in English and Yiddish, Price 60 cents
Recordings
- On album:
- R-010(b) (Chants Et Danses Du Folklore Yiddish Abraham Samuel Rettig — ייִדישע פֿאָלקס-געזאַנגען און טענץ)
- Track ID:
- 16551
- Vocal:
- Rettig, Abraham Samuel — רעטיג, אַבֿרהם שמואל
- Conductor Orchestra:
- Wiernik, Adam
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך...
- Track comment:
- Recorded under title "Vi Azoy Lebt A Keyser"
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- S-002(f) (Martha Schlamme at Town Hall)
- Track ID:
- 16552
- vocal:
- Schlamme, Martha
- Piano:
- Gould Tanya
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך...
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- K-049(a) (Solomon Kromchenko Jewish Folk Songs)
- Track ID:
- 16553
- Artist:
- Khromchenko, Solomon Markovich
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, oy, entfert ale oyf..
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, אױ, ענטפֿערט אַלע אױף מײַן שאלה,
- Audio:
- Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- K-030(a) (Kapelye Future and Past — קאַפּיליע)
- Track ID:
- 16546
- Vocal:
- Waletzky, Josh — װאָלעטסקי, יהודה
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a shir, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ שיר, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך...
- Audio:
- Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
- Track comment:
- Sung acapella.
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- N-003(b) (Nira Rabinovitz /Shlomo Nitzan Shabbat, Hassidic & Folk Songs — נירה רבּינוביץ שלמה ניצן שירי חסידים, שירי שבּת ועוד...)
- Track ID:
- 16547
- Vocal:
- Rabinovitz, Nira — רבּינוביץ, נירה
- Arranger/Conductor:
- Aldema, Gil — אלדמע, גיל
- Vocal:
- Nitzan, Shlomo — ניצן, שלמה
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך...
- Track comment:
- Recorded under title "Chayei Hakesar" "הקיסר "חיי
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- P-004(c) (Molly Picon sings Song Hits of the Yiddish Theatre)
- Track ID:
- 16548
- Artist:
- Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, ikh vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, איך װעל אײַך פֿרעגן,
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- R-004(a) (Paul Robeson: Favorite Songs)
- Track ID:
- 16549
- Artist:
- Robeson, Paul
- Artist:
- Brown, Lawrence, piano
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך...
- Track comment:
- Recorded under title "Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser"
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- R-010(a) (From The Album Of Jewish Songs Z Albumu Piesni Zydowskich — פֿון ייִדישן לידער -אַלבום)
- Track ID:
- 16550
- Vocal:
- Rettig, Abraham Samuel — רעטיג, אַבֿרהם שמואל
- Conductor Orchestra:
- Wiernik, Adam
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך...
- Track comment:
- Recorded under title "Vi Azoy Lebt A Keyser"
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- B-065(a) (Folklore Yiddish D'Europe Centrale Budapester Klezmer Band)
- Track ID:
- 22439
- Artist:
- Cohen, Bob/Budapester Klezmer Band
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך…
- Track comment:
- Recorded under "Vi Azoy Lebt Der Keyser?"
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- A-033(b) (The Austin Klezmorim East of Odessa)
- Track ID:
- 23253
- Artist:
- Austin Klezmorim
- Arranger/Director:
- Averbach, Bill
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakute yor? Oyb nit zibn zol khotsh...
- First line:
- װוּ זײַנען מײַנע זיבן גוטע יאָר? אױב ניט זיבן זאָל כאָטש זײַן אַ פּאָר
- Style:
- Instrumental
- On album:
- L-043(a) (Judische Gesange/ Leipziger Synagogalchor/ Helmut Klotz)
- Track ID:
- 24460
- Artist:
- Reimer, Rudolf, baritone
- Artist:
- Collegium Instrumentale Lipsiense
- Artist:
- Leipziger Synagogalchor
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, כ'װעל אײַך פֿרעגן, כ'װעל אײַך...
- Track comment:
- Werner Sander, arranger
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- P-004(e) (The Very Best Of Molly Picon 14 Yiddish Theatre Favorites)
- Track ID:
- 24598
- Artist:
- Picon, Molly — פּיקאָן, מאָלי
- First line:
- Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, ikh vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- רבּותי, רבּות, חכמים און אַ ברעג, איך װעל אײַך פֿרעגן,
- Language:
- Yiddish
- On album:
- J-033(a) (Lin Jaldati / Jiddischer Lieder)
- Track ID:
- 31382
- vocal:
- Jaldati, Lin — יאַלדאַטי, לין
- Conductor/Arrangement:
- Hoffman, Martin — האָפֿמאַן, מאַרטין
- Artist:
- Martin Hoffman Orchestra — מאַרטין האָפֿמאַן אָרקעסטער
- First line:
- A sholem aleichem, Rabosay, rabosay, khakhomim un a breg, kh'vel aykh fregn,
- First line (Yiddish):
- אַ שלום עליכם, רבּותי,רבּותי, חכמים און אַ ברעג, וויל אייִ ך פֿרעגן
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Concert/Orchestral Accompaniment
- Length:
- 3:14
- On album:
- Z-022(a) (19 Beloved Yiddish Folk Songs sung in English by Meyer Zaremba)
- Track ID:
- 27719
- Vocal:
- Zaremba, Meyer
- Narrator:
- Zaremba, Helen
- First line:
- Gentlemen, wisemen, whose wisdom knows no bounds,
- Track comment:
- Recorded under "How The Kaiser Drinks Tea"
- Language:
- English
- Style:
- Folk
- On album:
- F-010(b) (Jewish Humor Through Jewish Song Maurice Friedman/ Susie Michael)
- Track ID:
- 32183
- Vocal:
- Friedman, Maurice
- Piano, Narrator:
- Michael, Susie
- First line:
- (English narration)...Rabosay, rabosay,ikh vil bay aykh fregn...
- First line (Yiddish):
- ראַבאָסײַ, ראַבאָסײַ, איך װיל בײַ אײַך פֿרעגן...
- Language:
- Yiddish
- Style:
- Concert