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Bubby played the mandolin, and as she played she cried For it brought back all the melodies the years had helped to hide Oh, the years go by, people live and die The love gets locked inside your heart But a melody has a special way Of breaking the lock apart. She always wanted us to eat, for as a child she was hungry She baked us butter cookies and the jar was never empty Oh, the recipe she gave to me And each step she'd explain And I tried to make them many times But they never turned out the same. She spoke English with a little Yiddish And Yiddish with some English now and then And oh, wouldn't I give anything, Just to see my Bubby once again! Bubby came from Poland in 1924 she never heard from family again At the end of the war Oh, the years go by...
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A song about Bubby from the old country...who spoke Yiddish mixed with English and always kept the cookie jar full...a true story, with a little niggun in it. Available on Karen Daniel's Breaking the Lock cd.
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