Текст песни: The Ballad of How the Jews Got to Europe + перевод

Sing, oh muse, of how the Jews migrated to this place

And how the force of history has creolized the race

Our modest disquisition is burdened by the weight

Of European history and epic Jewish fate

The story of a people who, displaced from ancient lands

Became the slaves of Greece and Rome and Gaul’s marauding bands

Who planted little languages all along the Rhine

With odd stiff-necked customs that defy the test of time

They don’t eat this, they won’t wear that

Invite them in they always wear their hats

Worse, they refuse to recognize

The one true god in his earthly guise

Dos folk vos hot amol farmogt Yehude un Shomron

Es vandert itst di velt adurkh on land un on a fon

Mir zenen keyn tsigayner nisht, kholile nisht gedakht

Nishto, nisht dort, nisht far keyn yidn mitn mindstn pakhd

Eyrope heyst haynt undzer heym, a goles sheyn vi gor

Vos ligt tseshpreyt in veltl tsvishn hondl un teror

Di zkhus fun undzere oves, dos iz alts vos shteyt undz bay

Abi mir hitn toyre op un blaybn ir getray

S’iz treyf undz, feh, un shatnes loy

Mir maydn oys dem veg fun goy

Trogn mir di hit bay aykh in hoyz

Keyn koved gebn mir nit op dem Yoyz

Sing, oh muse, of how it was decided we would do

The work that goyim weren’t allowed: leave it to the Jew

We lent at interest to the princes who we sought to please

And went among the peasants to collect the royal fees

We did not cultivate our gardens, we did not grow fruit

We hondled, lent and dickered all along the trading routes

The prince needs men, the New World slaves, have we got stuff to sell!

We are the middlemen of Europe’s modern earthly hell

Mir hitn nit keyn gertner op, flantsn keyn geviks

Mir hondlen, borgen, dingen zikh, s’vert an idee fixe!

Tsi makhnes darf? Tsi felt a shklaf? Bay undz farkoyft zikh alts!

Mir zenen kontsert mayster fun Eyropes hondl-vals

Zenen kontsert mayster fun Eyropes hondl-vals

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