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Af a lonke ba dem veldl

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!


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

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

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