Oso boyker
Language: Yiddish (יידיש)
Shabes banakht. Fintster in shtub, fintster in gas, Un Yankl pakt di zakhn. “Got fun Avrom, fun Yitskhok un fun Yankev!” Un Yankl shpant dem shlitn. “Vayiten lekho, vayiten lekho …” Un Yankl fort in veg. Er fort di nakht, er fort dem tog, Un Yankl vert antshlofn. Vilde vintn royshn, yogn, S’flien volkn iber berg un toln, Un Yankl shloft nokh alts. Er shloft di teg, er shloft di nekht Un khapt zikh keyn mol uf. Shvartse vintn royshn, yogn, S’flien volkn iber berg un toln, Un Yankl khapt zikh uf. “Got, o, Got! Biz vi lang, o Got, Vestu mir lozn shlofn?” Un Got hot im geentfert: “Oso boyker ve-gam laylo, Un du, Yankl, host farshlofn.”
Authorship:
- from Volkslieder (Folksongs) , "Oso boyker" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Joel Engel (1868 - 1927), "Oso boyker", op. 24 no. 1 (1919), published 1919 [ voice and piano ], Moscow: Society of Jewish Music [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2023-03-18
Line count: 21
Word count: 118