Mekhuteineste Mayne (My Mother-in-Law)

MEKHUTEINESTE MAYNE מעכוטײנעסטע מײַנע
Mekhuteneste mayne, mekhuteneste getraye,  Oy, lomir zayn oyf eibik mekhutonim.  Ikh gib aykh avek mayn tokhter far a shnur,  Zi zol ba aykh nit onvern dos ponim.  Mekhuteneste mayne, mekhuteneste getraye,  Mayn kind zolt ir nisht fri oyfvekn,  Un tomer vet ir zen an avle oyf mayn kind,  Vi an eygene mame zolt ir dos fardekn.  Mekhuteneste mayne, mekhuteneste getraye,  Oyf kinder hobn muz men blut fargisn,  Un tomer vet ir zen, az der zun hot lib di shnur,  Zol es aykh gornisht fardrisn.  Mekhuteneste mayne, mekhuteneste getraye  Ikh far tzu aykh mit a parikl  Tomer vet ir zayn  A shlak a beygzey shviger  Iz mayn tokhter oykhet an antikl

My dear in-law, this is what I want to tell you. 
Today, we have become relations. 
I am giving you my daughter for a daughter-in-law. 
May she not lose face with you. 

My dear-in-law, this is what I want to tell you. 
Do not wake my daughter too early in the morning. 
And should you hear an evil word from her, 
May you forgive as her own mother would. 

My dear in-law, this is what I want to tell you.
It needs much effort to bring up a child. 
And if your son looks lovingly at his wife, 
Do not keep a jealous eye on him. 

My dear in-law, this is what I want to tell you.
I am willing to bet you 
That if you are going to be an angry, 
unforgiving mother-in-law, 
My daughter is quite a brilliant herself!

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SONGS IN DARK TIMES

I've been reading Songs in Dark Times: Yiddish Poetry of Struggle from Scottsboro to Palestine, Harvard University Press, with great interest.  Amelia M. Glaser, Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at University of California, San Diego, has given us a remarkable collection of Yiddish songs addressing labor, poverty, war, and injustice along with text offering historical context. 

The song texts, in one of the appendices, are given in English and transliterated Yiddish plus about 60 pages of notes with additional historic information.  

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Darktown Strutters Ball by KFT

 By KFT - tune Darktown Strutters Ball

Never did anything with this.

Ikh vel dikh kumen opnemen mit mayn ferd un vogn,

Halb nokh akht zolstu shoyn zayn greyt.

Ikh vel nit kumen shpeyt,

Vayl ikh vil zeyer hern di klezmer kapelye.

Ikh veys vest zeyer hanoe hobn.

Mirn hulyen, svet zayn a skandal!

Tseraysn beyde shikh

Fun tantsn azoy lang un gikh,

Morgn bay nakht af dem bal-hagoles bal.

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UN MIR ZAYNEN ALE BRIDER (ENGLISH)

 And we are all brothers, oy, oy, all brothers,

and we sing happy songs, oy, oy, oy.

 

And we hold together, oy, oy, hold together,

such a thing you will not find anywhere, oy, oy, oy

 

And we are all united, oy, oy, all united,

whether we are many or a few, oy, oy, oy

 

And we do love each other, oy, oy, each other,

like the bride (loves) the groom, oy, oy, oy

 

And we are jolly and cheerful, oy, oy, jolly and cheerful,

we sing songs and are dancing, oy, oy, oy

 

And we are all sisters, oy, oy, all sisters,

like Rachel, Ruth and Esther, oy, oy, oy

KFT Dream a little Dream of Me (Troym fun mir a Zisn Troym) Yiddish by Khane-Faygl Turtletaub

 (C) Khane-Faygl Turtletaub 2006