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Dem Milners Trern [The Miller's Tears]

from Surprising Finds by Metropolitan Klezmer

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Grandpa Phillip's sign-off is excerpted from the song he announces as "Der Milman's [sic] Trern," a well-known work by Mark M. Warshawsky (1840-1907)...
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Dem milners trern / The Miller's Tears [Yiddish & translation below: Final verse]

Vu vel ikh voynen, ver vet mikh shoynen?
Ikh bin shoyn alt, ikh bin shoyn mid;
Di reder dreyen zikh, di yorn geyen zikh
Un oykh mit zey geyt oys der yid.

Where shall I live? Who shall spare me?
I'm already old, I'm already tired;
The wheels are turning, the years are passing
And with them, the Jew passes.

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from Surprising Finds, released February 13, 2014
M. M. Warshawsky, sung by Philip Karpel

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Metropolitan Klezmer New York, New York

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER, established in 1994, brings eclectic exuberance to Yiddish musical genres from all over the map. Performing vibrant versions of lesser-known gems from wedding dance, trance, folk, swing and tango styles, as well as soundtrack material from vintage Yiddish films, they re-invent tradition with both irreverence and respect… an exhilarating journey! ... more

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