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I am hard of hearing and cannot make out, either on CD or on a YouTube video, the words to MBD’s “Lichtiger Shabbos”. My cousin in Flatbush painstakingly dictated to me, by phone last week, the words to the first verse plus chorus. My intent is to have the entire song not only translated (that’s the quick part; first verse and chorus already done) as a singable version (matching the rhyme scheme and rhythm, thank you) but with both Yiddish and English typeset on the same sheet, in time to take copies with me when I visit this cousin and her family iy”H for the last days of Sukkos.
Please help me out with the second and subsequent verses. Many thanks in advance. I don’t care whether the words are in the Yiddish or the Latin alphabet.
Choirmistress
Mistress,
If I understand this correctly, you translated the song from the dictated Yiddish, yes? Why not have your cousin type up the lyrics and e-mail them to you, or post them on this thread?
(If they don’t have a computer/Internet, surely they know someone who does, or have a public library they can use?)
By the way, if you can translate a song and “matc[h] the rhyme scheme and rhythm” in the new language, hats off to you.
But b’li neder, I’ll take a stab at it this afternoon.
(I just successfully downloaded a YouTube video of it.)
(P.S. “I don’t care whether the words are in the Yiddish or the Latin alphabet”? Do you mean the English lyrics that you’re asking us to provide?)
if you can translate a song and "matc[h] the rhyme scheme and rhythm" in the new language, hats off to you.NB: But not for Country Yossi’s “Hello Mameh, Hello Tateh.”
The rhyme scheme and rhythm are just too easy.
Still hilarious (especially for kids) until you grow out/get sick of it.
Here you go, Madame! In return, I ask only that you post your English version once you have completed it, that I may see the fruits of my labor.
(Mods, maybe you should send her an e-mail – she could well have given up and may not come back to check for a response.
I just hope this wasn’t a random trolling.)
Second verse:
Zin geit shoin intehr
Di Shabbos vehrt neintehr
Di challos di vain oifen tish shoin geshtehlt
Di hertzer derfreiyen zich
Neshumes banaiyen zich
Lichte(r?)lach brennen
Balaichten di vehlt
[Chorus – same as first chorus]
Third verse:
Tahm Oilam haBeh
Feelt men in Shabbes
Mit di maluchim
Bahm heiligen tish
Mir zingen tsizamen
Es hut alleh tahmin
Dos essen in t’rinken
Es shmekt azoi frish
[Chorus – same as first chorus]
P.S. It took careful reading of your post to realize that you just wanted the Yiddish lyrics transcribed, and not turned into an English song matching… etc., with both sets of lyrics on the page, nuch der tzi. That may be why you didn’t get a response sooner.
Wow, randomex, that was really nice of you! I’m really impressed.
You’re welcome! (And thank you, Letakein.)
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Of the Chicago Sun-Times?!
Updated version with first verse and translation here:
http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/mbd-yiddish-lyrics-a-lichitig-shabbos
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