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Oy! Wey! Rebbenyu! Rebbenyu! Rebbenyu! Oy! Wey! Rebbenyu! Tswish'n Kosef un Kitef, Iz a weldale farannen. Futer Baal Shem, Futer Baal Shem, Dort iz Tatenyu gegangen.
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Oy vey! Our rebbe! Our rebbe! Our rebbe! Oy vey! Our rebbe! Between Kosef and Kitef Is a [something something] Where the Baal Shem, where the Baal Shem Went with his father.
Notes
from the jewish-music listserv: I learned it a few months ago in Berlin from the beautiful norwegian yiddish singer Bente Kahan. Michel Sara: I was just in Vilne (and I too learned it from Bente!) but I've also heard it go by the name of "Twish'n Kosef un Kitef". There are a lot of verses,and I don't speak enough Yiddish that I remember any of them. The verses are all about 'Between Kosef and Kitef is a little [something], where [I learned this as avu, not futer -?] the Baal Shem [founder of Hasidism] would [do something]. The somethings vary with each verse.
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