Tumbalalaika - Pete Seeger and Ruth Rubin video free download

Chen Fanghwey

Voilà une musique qui chante mon amour pour Sabina Spielrein, pour sa thèse inventive " La destruction comme cause du devenir"

Jack Coleman

I first heard this song in an audio dramatization of The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. Beautiful.

sa baka

beautiful and uncanny!

OtisFan1

The joys of unrehearsed, live television. Dear Ruth started with the 2nd stanza, so Pete came in in English with a quick recap of the missing first verse. Then she sang the 2nd again &, as you see, forgot some of the words of the last. A delightful rendition of the full song is on YouTube as: The Creepy Bard Tumbalalaika. Has very cute info on the song, too.

Frank Renfrow

Beautiful!

Allie Whiteley

Fascinating. This is the same melody as "Over & Over" by Nana Mouskouri - guessing it was borrowed for the English lyrics. Beautiful.

BeadsandFlowers

I found out about this song thanks to great Italian movie called 'Prendimi l'Anima' (lit. 'Take My Soul'), or 'The Soul Keeper'. I cry every time, at the end, when they sing it. :) Lovely version, by the way!

James M

According to my mother, my great great aunt would sing this song while playing a small guitar. I first got it from my parents and from Theodore Bikel.

Michael Friedman

Wonderful musical performance !

Hershl Hartman

Pete's was the voice of my growing-up years and Ruth Rubin was one of my teachers in the leftwing secular Yiddish supplementary schools of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order-International Workers' Order. (The Yiddish-handicapped are hereby informed that Ruth messed-up the last verse that Pete had accurately translated.) The book Pete refers to at the beginning is Ruth's "A Treasury of Jewish Folksong," 1964.

nora bodrova

RIP Pete Seeger

Jacob Feuerwerker

A Ukranian Jewish song.

drnurit

Singing along the Tumbalalaika with Pete Seeger and Ruth Rubin on a cold winter morning in NY, aching for the flowers gone long time ago, and remembering a Pete Seeger concert in Central Park on a warm summer night many years ago – so under his spell – believing wholeheartedly with him in building ladders to the sky, in overcoming some day, in forever young… May his songs always be sung. Nurit Israeli

The Cantors

The Cantors - Tumbalalaika