For those who appreciated Machnisei Dimah’s yiddish lyrics, I wrote a song in English (2001?) based on that song. I finally figured out how to copy and paste,so I will try….
C. Banet Tape
Yiddishe Kinder, do you know
That in shomayim, tears flow
For yiddishe tears still overflow
And when, this glass is full, Moshiach will come.
Six million screamed Shema Yisroel Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echod
Tears were shed for rivers of Yiddish blood
How many tears soak every cheek?
Our precious Tehillim will one day speak
Oy, oy, oy, when / will / the geula be here at last?
Oy Ribono Shel Olam, how deep is the glass?
So many hearts are broken, so many tefillos spoken
Young yesomim voices piercing the crowd
The tzibbur listens with sadness as / they say Kaddish out loud
Tosim dimoseinu benodcha
Ana, rachem al amcho
How can it be the glass is not yet full?
[musical interlude here]
Yiddishe Kinder, do you know
That in shomayim, tears flow
For yiddishe tears still overflow
And when / this glass is full Moshiach will come.
Tears of another kind
Could fill the glass, each drop we find
We plead with you Hashem, please gather them in
Tears of a simcha
Of mitzvos done with kavannah
With these tears, too, perhaps the glass will brim.
Oy, oy, Ribono Shel Olam, please / look down and see
The tears a mother and father shed freely
Leading a choson and kallah under the chuppah
So many tears of friends and family
Oy, oy, Ribono Shel Olam, please / look down with pride
See yiddishe mothers bentching the licht each Friday night
Whispering, Yehi Rotzon Lifnei Hashem Elokai
The precious tears of every Aim Habonim
(music)