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oy, vifl yorn zenen farforn zayt ikh bin a milner ot to do: di reder dreyen zikh di yorn geyen zikh, ikh bin shoyn alt un grayz un gro. s'iz teg faranen kh'vil mikh dermonen tsi kh'hob gehat a shtikl glik--- di reder dreyen zikh di yorn geyen zikh keyn entfer iz nit do tsurik. 'kh hob gehert zogn men vel mikh faryogn aroys fun dorf un fun der mil. di reder dreyen zikh di yorn geyen zikh oy, on an ek un on a tsil. fun glik fartribn bin ikh geblibn on vayb, on kind ot do aleyn. di reder dreyen zikh di yorn geyen zikh, un eylent bin ikh vi a shteyn. vu vel ikh voynen ver vet mikh shoynen ikh bin shoyn alt ikh bin shoyn mid -- di reder dreyen zikh di yorn geyen zikh, un oykh mit zey geyt oys der yid.
Translated lyrics
oh how many years have passed since i've been a miller here the wheels turn the years pass i'm growing old and grey. there are days i want to remember if i had a little happiness? the wheels turn the years pass i don't get any answers i heard it said they want to drive me out away from my village and away from the mill the wheels turn the years pass without an end, without a goal [this verse omitted from Levison translation] Exiled from happiness I remain without it No wife or child--myself alone. The wheels turn The years pass I am miserable as a stone where will i live? who will care for me? i'm already old, i'm already tired the wheels turn the years pass and with them, also go the jews (or more poetically, as the mloteks translated: and soon no trace of the jews will remain) - translated by Jenny Levison
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