Lyrics
Lyrics by Reuben Doctor
I’m a boarder at my wife’s.
Guys, it’s a sweet deal.
She attends to my every need.
When I come home, she doesn’t ask any questions.
I am a boarder at my wife’s.
I’m single once again,
single like a young boy.
I’ve divorced my wife.
I thought about moving out,
I looked for a room to lodge,
but my wife persuaded me:
“Why do you need to look for bargains
And be cramped in strange rooms,
And be alone and talk to the walls.
Stay here just like before.
Be a boarder now with me.”
So like a boarder, I pay her rent.
I’m a boarder at my wife’s.
It’s so nice, so good.
Guys, it’s a sweet deal.
She attends to my every need.
When I come home, she doesn’t ask any questions.
I am a boarder at my wife’s.
It’s a pleasure;
I can get it all
as a stranger boarding at my wife’s.
I’m no greenhorn,
and every day, after dinner,
I lie down, just to pass the time
Oh, earlier she used to curse me
and make a big hullabaloo,
Even when there was a stranger boarding
in my house.
But ever since I became a boarder at her place,
she is so good to me.
It costs me little, and she loves me.
Lyrics by Reuben Doctor
ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb,
oy, mener, iz dos a tayerer job.
zi atendet mikh mit ales,
ven ikh kum fregt zi keyn shayles.
ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb.
ikh bin shoyn vider single
single vi a yingl.
mit mayn vaybl hob ikh zikh geget.
gedenkt hob ikh tsu “mufn”
a room gezukht tsu shlofn
hot mayn vaybl mikh ibergeredt:
vos darfstu zukhn glikn,
in fremde rooms zikh shtikn,
un zayn aleyn un redn tsu di vent,
blayb do iber punkt vi frier
zay a boarder yetst bay mir.
vi a boarder tsol ikh ir di rent.
ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb,
ay voyl, ay gut, ay voyl
oy, mener, iz dos a tayerer job.
zi atendet mikh mit ales,
ven ikh kum fregt zi keyn shayles.
ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb.
es iz a fargenign,
ales ken ikh krign,
vi a fremdn boarder bay mayn vayb.
ikh bin gornit keyn griner,
un yedn tog nokh dinner
leyg ikh zikh tsu azoy tsum tsayt-fartrayb.
oy frier flegt zi mir sheltn
un iberkern veltn
gor mit a fremdn boarderin mayn shtub.
nor zayt ikh bin in board bay ir,
iz zi azoy gut tsu mir,
es kost mir bilik un zi hot mikh lib.
Credits
Composer: Reuben Doctor
Length: 2:25
Genre: Yiddish Theater
Performers: Bruce Adler, Tenor; Barcelona Symphony-National Orchestra of Catalonia; Elli Jaffe, Conductor
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