Yiddish Lyrics

Makh tsu di eygelekh - ot kumen feygelekh
un krayzn do arum tsukopns fun dayn vig
dos pekl in der hant dos hoyz in ash un brandt
mir lozn zikh, mayn kind, zukhn glik.

di velt hot G-t farmakht un umetum iz nakht
zi vakht af undz mit shoyder un mit shrek.
mir shteyen beyde do in shverer shverer sho
un veysn nit vuhin s'firt der veg.

men hot undz naket bloyz faryogt fun undzer hoyz
in fintsternish getribn undz in feld
un shturem, hogl, vint s'hot undz bagleyt, mayn kind,
bagleyt undz inem opgrunt fun der velt.

Translation

Di iberzetsung do iz "shuresdike" - vu nemt men dem
literarishn
variant ken ikh layder nisht.

Zakryvaj skoree glazki - vor letjat ptichki,
i kruzhatsja u izgolov'ja tvoej krovatki
paketik v ruke, dom v ogne i pozhare --
my poterjalis', moe ditja, v poiskakh schast'ja.

Mir zakryl nam B-g, i vezde noch',
on storozhit nas uzhasom i strakhom,
my oba stoim zdes' v tjazhelyj-tjazhelyj chas
i ne znaem, kuda vedet doroga.

Nas tol'ko razdetykh vygnali iz nashego doma
v temnote vyveli na pole -
i burja, grad i veter nas provozhali, moy mal'chik,
nas provozhali v zijajushchuju propast'.

English Translation
Now close your little eyes,
Soon little birds will fly
In circles everywhere.
They'll flutter by your bed.
Your head upon your hand,
The house in ash and sand!
We leave, my darling child,
In search of life...

Gods from the world withdrawn,
The black night fills each dawn,
She waits for us
With horror and with dread,
With terror always near,
Not knowing where, oh where
Our road has led.

Stripped naked, we were thrown,
Chased from our loving home,
In darkest night
Into the open field.
In wind and hail and storm,
By fearsome currents borne,
Borne forth into the depths
Of the earth.