Klezmer Gourmets playing papirosen

This Yiddish song is about a boy, selling cigarettes in the rain, who pleads with passers by to buy them so he will not die of the cold like his sister did. Not a happy topic, but some of the best tunes in many genres of music have sad lyrics. In this performance it is played 'upbeat', but with a sad ending.
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• nostressmusic
• Michael
• Kahan
• klezmer
• Ros
• Hawley
• music
• east
• Yiddish
• song
• european
• violin
• Jewish
• clarinet

[HikoShinju]

Does anyone know where can I find the lyrics? I really need them for my project but I have never learned Yiddish so I can't write it down by listening.

(Btw, This melody is haunting me since I was a little girl. :) )

[Stinkyscatt]

six thousand, six hundered and sixty six views.

[UmHumaid]

Ahhh, my heart. So, so beautiful.

[0802kota]

wonderful, probably that boy could play violin too, as many of them

[samuel17517]

Played on a violin, especially brings back many memories for me as a child on the lower east side of New York's kosher restaurants, where fiddle players would go around to the tables playing their music & I remember that this was always a popular request from the patrons.

Thank you for bringing back those memories.

[yogisuperman]

The lyrics were written in 1931 by Herman Yablakoff for the play "Di Payetz" (The Clown) for the Second Avenue theatre. Liner notes of "Garden of Yidn." Yale Strom with Hot Pstomi & Klazzj featuring Elizabeth Schwartz on vocals.

[paulostroff99]

Wonderful playing! He will be sorely missed.

[lukeyuenkh]

thank u for your sharing. the song is quite sentimental.

[MyPaprika]

BS"D

Beautiful. Thank U 4 sharing.

[rakkav]

Even in its "upbeat" parts, the song is sad, and not because it's in minor mode. There's sad, and then there's SAD...and the tempo change no doubt conveys that. Beautiful, heartbreaking performance.