Avreml the Filcher-Daniel Kahn/the Painted Bird

[00:03.921]On a heym bin ikh yung geblibn [00:10.949]s'hot di noyt mikh aroys getribn [00:16.644]ven ikh hob keyn draytsn yor gehat [00:23.594]in der fremd, vayt fun mames oygn [00:30.591]s'hot in shmuts mikh di gas dertsoygn [00:38.660]gevorn iz fun mir a voyler yat [00:49.617]kh'bin avreml der feyikster marvikher [00:57.132]a groyser kinstler kh'arbet laykht & zikher [01:03.286]dos ershte mol kh'vel s'gedenken bizn toyt [01:09.920]arayn in tfise far lakhenen a broyt [01:16.840]kh'for nit af marken vi yene proste yatn [01:22.810]kh'tsup nor bay karge shmutsike magnatn [01:29.124]kh'bin zikh mekhaye ven kh'tap aza magnat [01:35.632]ikh bin avreml gor a voyler yat [01:43.569]On the street, hard to make a living [01:49.140]Ya beg for bread, a poor man might be giving [01:55.682]But all you people sick from being fed [02:02.381]You'd rather turn me out & lock your doors [02:08.819]You scorn us all as thieves & thugs & whores [02:14.411](well I say) Better a good crook than good & dead [02:21.108]Call me Avreml the finest little filcher [02:27.605]A master artist, you never see me pilfer [02:33.726]Some little sh*t you deposited in jail [02:39.732]Comes out a maven whose talent never fails (oh no) [02:46.631]I ain't some punk who steals from those who can't afford it [02:52.671]I just rob the stingy filthy rich who hoard it [02:59.445]The rich are leeches sucking money day & night [03:05.889]I'm just a flea who takes a bite, ain't I all right? [03:40.391](Well avreml won't live long at all) [03:42.794](He's sick from the streets & prison walls) [03:45.838](But on his gravestone etched in gold) [03:48.832](He should have his story told) [03:51.534]do ligt avreml der feyikster marvikher [03:54.968](Here lies Avreml, the king of the thieves) [03:58.623](A man whom all the world should grieve) [04:00.646]a mentsh a groyser geven volt fun im zikher [04:03.856](He could've been a purer soul) [04:05.978](But hunger is beyond control) [04:08.586](& he never had no ma or pa) [04:08.626]a mentsh a fayner mit harts mit a gefil [04:12.163](& the streets, they have their own law) [04:15.493](This crooked prince zol zayn gebentsht) [04:16.774]a mentsh a reyner vos got aleyn nor vil [04:19.829](Here lies Avreml, what a mentsh) [04:24.197]ven iber im volt gevakht a mames oygn [04:32.135]ven s'hot di finstere gas im nit dertsoygn [04:40.040]ven nokh als kind er a tatn volt gehat [04:47.643]do ligt avreml, yener voyler yat