Текст песни Артём Гельман - Аркадию Гендлеру

Annotation:
Arkady (Abram) Gendler is a Yiddish performer, folklorist, teacher.

You didn't live to see a hundred ...
The Lord has given you a wonderful voice.
How beauty helped songs
Endure war, devastation, hunger!

In the midst of the war, very dark days,
Before the battle, despite the fatigue,
You will cheer up your friends with a song,
It was possible to distract from sad thoughts.

The soul ached from sorrows so
After all, there were them - not to list how many ...
You mowed down enemies from the PCA,
Until suddenly struck by a splinter.

And, despite the bloody itching wounds,
Heavy chains on difficulties
We did not lose heart ... "Lakhn is from gesund!" *, -
Once you read in a book.

All my life, forgetting about the burden of resentment,
We tried to remember only the good.
That, nevertheless, "Freyen zikh is from the gith!", - **
You sang songs for us on mame-loshn *** ...



* "Lakhn is from the gesund!" - "Laughter is health!" (Yiddish). The phrase of the writer Sholem Aleichem.
** "Freyen zikh - from the gith!" - "It's good to be happy!" (Yiddish). Song by Zeylik Bardichever, performed by Arkady Gendler.
*** Mame-loshn is the native language (Yiddish).