Schlof mayn Kind (Willem Verkaik)
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- Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-03-26). Score information: A4, 4 pages, 320 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Schlof mayn Kind
Composer: Willem Verkaik
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Secular, Folksong
Language: Yiddish
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1990
Description:
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Original text and translations
Yiddish text
Schlof mayn kind, mayn treyst, mayn sheyner,
schlof zhe zunenyu,
schlof mayn lebn, mayn kadish eyner,
schlof zhe lyu, lyu, lyu.
Bay dayn vigl zitst dayn mame,
zingt a lid un veynt.
Du vestamol farshteyn misame,
vos zi hot gemeynt.
Er vet shikn tsvantsig doler,
zayn portret dertsu,
un vet nemen, lebn zol er!
Undz ahin tsu tsu.
Er vet chapn undz un kushn,
tantsn azh far freyd!
Ich vel kvaln trern gisn,
veynen shtilerheyt.
Bis es kumt dos gute kvitl,
schlof zhe zunen yu.
Schlofn iz a tayer mitl,
schlof zhe, lyulyulyu.