Schlof mayn Kind (Willem Verkaik)

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  • (Posted 2015-03-26)  CPDL #34900:        (Finale 2004)
Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2015-03-26).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 320 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: Schlof mayn Kind
Composer: Willem Verkaik
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SecularFolksong

Language: Yiddish
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1990
Description: 

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Original text and translations

Yiddish text

Schlof mayn kind, mayn treyst, mayn sheyner,
schlof zhe zunenyu,
schlof mayn lebn, mayn kadish eyner,
schlof zhe lyu, lyu, lyu.

Bay dayn vigl zitst dayn mame,
zingt a lid un veynt.
Du vestamol farshteyn misame,
vos zi hot gemeynt.

Er vet shikn tsvantsig doler,
zayn portret dertsu,
un vet nemen, lebn zol er!
Undz ahin tsu tsu.

Er vet chapn undz un kushn,
tantsn azh far freyd!
Ich vel kvaln trern gisn,
veynen shtilerheyt.

Bis es kumt dos gute kvitl,
schlof zhe zunen yu.
Schlofn iz a tayer mitl,
schlof zhe, lyulyulyu.