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Der Rebbe Elimelech
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Wikipedia article
'Der Rebbe Elimelech' is a Yiddish song written in 1927 by Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole.[http://www.folkways.si.edu/TrackDetails.aspx?itemid=16923 "Der Rebbe Elimelech (The Rabbi Elimelech)"], Smithsonian Folkways
Lyrics and translation
(first verse)
Yiddish
English translation
When Rabbi Elimelekh
Became happy,
(Became happy, Elimelekh)
He took off his tefillin
And he put on his glasses
And he sent for his two fiddlers.
And the fiddling fiddlers
Fiddlingly fiddled!
Oh, they fiddlingly fiddled, they did!
References
Category:Yiddish-language songs
Category:1927 songs
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