Du Meydele Du Fayns (You Pretty Little Girl)

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Yiddish Lyrics

Du meydele, du fayns, Du meydele, du sheyns,
Ich vel dir epes fregn, A retenish a kleyns:
Vos is hecher fun a hoyz?
Un vos iz flinker fun a moyz?

Du narisher bocher, du narisher chlop!
Host doch nit kayn seychl in dayn kop!
Der roych iz hecher fun a hoyz.
A katz iz flinker fun a moyz.

Du meydele du fayns, du meydele du sheyns,
Ich vel dir epes fregn, a retenish a kleyns:
Vos fara keyser iz on a land?
Un vos fara vaser iz on zamd?

Du narisher bocher, du narisher chlop!
Host doch nit keyn seychl in dayn kop!
Der keyser fun harts hot nit keyn land.
Trern fun di oygn zenen on zamd.

Translation

You pretty little girl, You apple of my eye,
I have a riddle for you, So answer it, please try:
What is taller than a house?
And what is faster than a mouse?

You foolish boy, well, you sure are so dense!
Dont you have a bit of common sense?
For smoke is taller than a house.
A cat is faster than a mouse.

You pretty little girl, you apple of my eye,
I have a riddle for you, so answer it, please try:
Where is the king who has no land?
And where is the water without sand?

You foolish boy, you sure are so dense!
Dont you have a bit of common sense?
The king of hearts, he has no land.
The tears that fall, they have no sand.

clip here from Rebecca Wave's website, and her album A Bisl Libe, und A Bisele Glik

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Added August 16th, 2000