The Song Remains – דאָס ליד איז געבליבן

Category: Mordkhe (Mordechai) Gebirtig

  • Hey Little Lambs

    Hey little lambs come here faster / I’ll welcome you with a little song / A shepherd began singing / and a maiden joined him along

  • I Had a Home

    Once I had a home, a warm safe place / a bit of furnishings like poor people have / securely fastened roots of a tree / I had tied to my poverty

  • Farewell, my Kraków

    Farewell, my Kraków! / Farewell my dear / The wagon waits before my house /and mad enemies are here drive me out / like you would cruelly chase a dog

  • March of the Unemployed

    Mordkhe Gebirtig / One Two Three Four / unemployed are we / haven’t heard month’s long / the factory’s hammering sound / tools lay cold forgotten / rust has made them rotten / and we walk around the streets / like the wealthy here and there / like the wealthy here and there

  • About Mordkhe (Mordechai) Gebirtig

    Mordkhe (Mordechai) Gebirtig was born Markus Bertig in Kraków on 4 May 1877, and is one of the best known Yiddish poets. He trained as a carpenter, but his true passion was the theater. He published his first book of poetry in 1920, and made many of his poems into songs.