Dray Tekhterlekh - Yiddish song from Cracow скачать видео бесплатно

A melancholic song in yiddish, about a father giving away all hes three daughters in marriage.. Written by the late Mordechai Gebirtig, and the sung by the great Bente Kahan.

All the pictures are from the US holocaust memorial museum!

Translation;

1.

When, with good luck, there arrives the day

When I marry off my youngest daughter,

I will dance and dance

A burden has been taken off my mind-

My eldest daughter is getting married

I have two more maiden daughters waiting for their turn to

be married

You bandsmen, tear at your strings!

Let everyone rejoice with us.

My joy is so great.

Only the good God can understand how great it is,

And so can those who have also given away their daughters

in marriage

2.

When I see my second daughter getting married in her white

wedding dress,

I will drink wine with joy -

What a burden off my shoulder!

You bandsmen - tear at yours strings!

My second daughter is getting married.

Now it is only my youngest one who remains in the house

I wish she would be married soon, too

Play, bandsmen play for our in-laws!

Let all poor folk share our happiness

We are having our child settled down to married life

And this child is a daughter, too

3.

Now the sounds of a third wedding are dying away

And this makes me sad and thoughtful

My youngest daughter is gone

What else is there for me to be living for?

You bandsmen, play for the bride.

All three daughters have now been given away in marriage

All our children have left us

It was hard for us to bring them up,

And without them life is even harder

Go on playing.

Let my tears run down.

Today, the last bed will be deserted

Their room will be empty

And so will their wardrobe

Oh, how desolate the life is now.