Af a lonke ba dem veldl (Volkslieder (Folksongs)) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

Language: Yiddish

Af a lonke ba dem veldl,
vos shteyt shtendik vi fartrakht,
pashen mir kolvirtshe stades
fun fri bis in der nakht.

Af a bergl sits ikh mir
do mit mayn fayfele in hant,
un ken zich nit sat onkukn
af di sheynkayt fun mayn land.

Af di beymer grinen tsvaign,
okh, vi zaynen zei dokh sheyn!
Af di felder bliyen zangen,
zaynen ful mit khen.

Oy, oy, oy!
Oy lyu-lyu-lyu...

Git a tsveigl mir a shmeykhl
un a zangele a wunk,
es tserflakhert zikh in hartsn
fraydgefiln vi a funk.

Kum, mayn fayfele, getraye,
shpiln, singen velen mir
un oysgisn af der lonke
mayne fraydgefiln mit dir.

Zolst nit mer yomern, fayfl!
Zolst nit veynen vi amol,
freilekh zoln dayne tener
trogn zikh af berg un tol.

Oy, oy, oy!
Oy lyu-lyu-lyu...

Ikh ken do in kolvirt gliklekh zayn,
gliklekh, gliklekh on a shir!
Freilekh, freilekh, fayfl,
freilekh zolst itst zikh shpiln mir!

Authorship

Volkslieder (Folksongs)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

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Set in Russian, a translation of Anonymous/Unidentified Artist RUS FRE

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Iz Jevrejskoj Narodnoj Po`ezii (From Jewish Folk Poetry)

Date added to the website: 2003-11-02.

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