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A Yiddish Lullaby – Pretty Like the Moon – Sheyn vi di levone

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Last weekend I recorded my husband’s 92 year old grandmother, Edna Pomerantz, singing a verse of a Yiddish Lullaby. It’s called Sheyn vi di levone, or Pretty Like the Moon, in English.

Here you can hear the recording and read the transliterated Yiddish lyrics, followed by an English translation (the last line might be a little different in the recording):

MP3 of Sheyn vi di levone

Sheyn vi di levone
(Yiddish Transliteration)

Sheyn vi di levone,
Likhtik vi di shtern,
Fun himl a matone,
Bistu mir tzugeshikt!

Pretty Like the Moon
(English Translation)

Pretty like the moon
Bright like the stars
From Heaven you were
Sent to me as a present.

Many thanks to Grandma Edna for singing this song for us and to Monique Palomares of Mama Lisa’s World en français for helping me with the translation!

-Lisa

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While researching this song I came across a site with lots of lyrics to songs in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Judeo-Spanish, most with English translations.

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