Friling by Shmerke Kaczerginski

http://hebrewsongs.com/?song=friling

(Much more about this song at the above URL)

FRILING

פרילינג

Ikh blondzhe in geto 
Fun gesl tsu gesl 
Un ken nit gefinen keyn ort 
Nito iz mayn liber, 
Vi trogt men ariber? 
Mentshn, o zogt khotsh a vort. 
Es laykht oyf mayn heym itst 
Der himl der bloyer 
Vos zhe hob ikh itst derfun? 
Ikh shtey vi a betler 
Bay yetvidn toyre 
Un betl a bisele zun.

Chorus: 

Friling, nem tsu mayn troyer 
Un breng mayn libstn 
Maynt trayen tsurik 
Friling oyf dayne fligl bloye 
O, nem mayn harts mit 
Un gib es op mayn glik. 

Ikh gey tsu der arbet 
Farbay undzer shtibl 
In troyer, der toyer farmakht. 
Der tog a tsehelter 
Di blumen farvelkte, 
Zey vanynen, far zey iz oykn nakht. 
Far nakht oyf tsurikvegs, 
Es noyet der troyer, 
Ot do hostu libster gevart. 
Ot do inem shotn 
Nokh kentik dayn trot iz, 
Flegt kushn mikh liblekh un tsart 

Chorus

S'iz hay-yor der friling 
Gor fri ongekumen, 
Tseblit hot zikh benkshaft nokh dir, 
Ikh ze dikh vi itster 
Balodn mit blumen, 
A freydiker geystu tsu mir. 
Di zun hot fargosn 
Dem gortn mist shtraln, 
Tseshprotst hot di erd zikh in grin 
Mayn trayer, mayn libster, 
Vu bistu farfaln? 
Du geyst nit aroys fun mayn zin. 

Chorus

I wander through the ghetto  From lane to lane  Useless, no solace I find.  My beloved is gone  How can I go on?  Someone, oh say just a word!  My house is aglow now  The sky's like a blue dome  But what is there left in my life?  I stand like a beggar  At each of these doorways  And beg for a little bit of sun  Refrain  Springtime, please take my sorrow  And bring my loved one,  My dear one back to me.  Springtime, upon your wings of blue  Take my heart with you  And bring love back to me  I go to my work  And pass by our small house  In sadness, the door is closed tight  The days is full of sunlight  But flowers won't bloom now,  They're wilting, for them too it's night  At night when returning  The sadness is burning  Right here love, you waited for me  Right here in the shadows  I still hear your footsteps  You kissed me so passionately  Refrain  Springtime is with us  This year very early  My longing for you is in bloom.  I see you before me  Adorned with spring flowers  Smiling, you will greet me soon  The sun's rays have lit up  The garden with sunlight,  Turning the hard earth to green.  My dearest, my loved one  Are you gone forever?  I can't get you out of my mind.  Chorus

This moving song memorializes the author's wife who perished in the ghetto.

Written by the poet after the death of his wife in April 1943. Kaczerginski joined the partisan forces following the liquidation of the ghetto in September 1943. After the war he compiled several hundred poems and song lyrics. He survived the war to meet his death in a plane crash in 1954. The music is by Abraham Brudno, who, following the liquidation of the ghetto was deported to a concentration camp in Estonia, where he died.
(from liner notes to "We are Here - Songs of Remembrance, Hope, and Celbrat) 

http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=friling 

LYRICS	Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954 Poet Partisan of Vilna)
MUSIC	Abrom Brudno (Died in the Holocaust 1943)