A Meydl from Berlin-Daniel Kahn/the Painted Bird

[00:06.753]Gelibt hob ikh a sheyn meydele fin der shtut Berlin [00:14.048]Gelibt hob ikh a sheyn meydele fin der shtut Berlin [00:20.198]Iz zi gefurn iberfreygn tsi ir futer in Vien [00:26.684]Iz zi gefurn iberfreygn tsi ir futer in Vien [00:33.680]Fur ikh mir aroys amul azoy di velt oystsikikn [00:39.705]Flit arup a sheyner foygl en tit mayn harts derkvikn [00:45.816]Nisht azoy di sheynkeyt vi dus hoykhe flien [00:52.022]A brivele hot er mir arintergevorfn tsi shtamt es oys fin Berlin? [00:58.590]Ikh nem dus brivele in der hant arayn in fang ikh un tsi leyenen [01:05.035]Plitsling falt af mir a shtarke moyre, fang ikh un tsi veynen [01:10.728]Farvus zol ikh nit veynen azoy vi nukh a korbn [01:16.918]Mayn tayere kale vos ikh hob gehat, [01:19.237]Mayn sheyn meydl iz geshtorbn [02:13.677]Once I did love a pretty girl, down in old Berlin [02:19.652]But she took off to her old man, to talk it out with him [02:25.793]I went out to see the world, I traveled round & round [02:31.496]& high above a pretty bird dropped a letter to the ground [02:37.841]I took the letter in my hand & fearfully I read [02:43.912]My darling girl is gone away & all my love is dead [02:48.967]So brothers, do not play at love, five years just left me yearning [02:55.793]& forget about the pretty girls, they're only good for burning [03:02.447]Kimt aher libe brider, in kayn libes nit tsi kenen [03:08.441]Tsizamennemen ale sheyne meydelakh en afn fayer zey farbrenen [03:14.579]Tsi farbrenen afn fayer biz af di kleyne koyln [03:20.768]Finef yur a libe tsi shpiln nisht amul tsi kenen poyln [03:26.848]Gelibt hob ikh a sheyn meydele fin der shtut Berlin [03:33.269]Gelibt hob ikh a sheyn meydele fin der shtut Berlin [03:39.283]Gelibt hob ikh a sheyn meydele fin der shtut Berlin