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Nu-zhe, kum-zhe, ikh un du, Ven der ovnt shteyt uf kegn dem himl Vi a leymener goylm af Tisha b'Av Lomir geyn zikh Durkh geselakh vos dreyen zikh Vi di bord fun dem rov Oy, Bashe, freg nisht keyn kashe, A dayge dir Oyf der vant fun dem koshern restorant Hengt a shmutsiker betgevant Un vantsn tantsn karahod In tsimer vu di vayber zenen Ret men fun Marx un Lenin Ike ver alt...ikh ver alt... Es vert mir in pupik kalt Zol ikh oykemen di hor, meg ikh oyfesn a floym? Ikh vel tskatsheven di hoyzn un shpatsirn bay dem yam, Ikh vel hern di yam-moydn zingen khad gadyo Ikh vel zey entfernv borukh-habo.
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from http://savethemusic.com/yiddish/kumzitz/question002.html : It appears in a paper by Ruth R. Wisse entitled "Language as Fate: Reflections on Jewish Literature in America", a paper published in the 1996 Studies in Contemporary Jewry (Vol. 12), pages 129- 147, Oxford University Press. The volume is subtitled Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts. Ruth Wisse (b'sheim omro) says that she got these lines from Lucy Dawidowicz, who got them from Chaim Raphael, who got them from Daniel Bell. Alas, I could not find the original in any of SaulBellow's papers on deposit at the University of Chicago library. Bellow assisted Isaac Rosenfeld in its composition, and I could not find the original in any of Rosenfeld's books. Thus this is, as Ruth Wisse says, an oral tradition that she finally recorded on paper.
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