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Miracle Melody: Hasidic Nign​/​Poor Man's Tune

from Traveling Show by Metropolitan Klezmer, with bonus track from Isle of Klezbos

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A traditional 'nign' (wordless chant), played instrumentally, leads into another tune which imparts the Hasidic sense of musical rapture in both story and melody. This song about the wondrous workings of one man's incantation was published under a pseudonym by Leybush Lehrer (1887–1965), a beloved Yiddish children's educator and child psychologist who for many summers directed the upstate New York Camp Boiberik.

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Iz a kaptsn a mol gevezn,
Flegt er nor mit got zikh krign.
Vunder iber vunder hot mit im getrofn,
Ven er hot gezungen ot aza min nign:
Tshiri-bim-bam-bam...

[There once was a poor man
Who would fight only with God.
Wonder upon wonder would encounter him
When he sang this very kind of tune:
Chiri-bim-bam-bam...]

[Complete lyrics in Yiddish with transliteration and English translation in the liner notes]

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from Traveling Show, released July 1, 2007
Miracle Melody / Hasidic Nigunim: Hasidic Nagn, traditional, arranged by Eve Sicular & Metropolitan Klezmer;
A Nign, a.k.a. A Yid, A Kaptsn [The Poor Man's Tune], words: L. Magister (Leybush Lehrer); music: Lazar Weiner; arranged by Metropolitan Klezmer

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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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