S’vet Geshen Text Shmerke Kaczerginski music Sigmunt Berland
Tango Yona’s Source: Sheet music courtesy of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and field recording of Shmerke Kaczerginski singing the song on the Yad Vashem website Heartstrings: Music of the Holocaust
| 1 Fray shvimen shifn af yamen
Di masten flatern tsum blo Ikh shtey af der vakh un mayn mamen Bahaltn muz ikh afn dno
Di shif muz in tifn antrinen Es zol undz keyner nit gefinen O shturem vint, O derbreng mame’n kind Gikh tsum breg dem gegartn Genug shoyn gevart!
S’vet geshen, s’vet geshen Un mir ale veln vider zayn tsuzamen
Oykh undzer shif vet shvimen fray af ale yamen
Undzer heyliker farlang Um tsu kern zikh in land fun di neviim
Vet mekuyem vern, kh’her shoyn di gezangen
2 Gebroyst hot der yam dan fun tsorn Mit farpaynikte fun veg Dokh zaynen mir yinger gevorn Ven mir hobn derzen dem breg
Un khotsh bin geven dan farmatert Hob ikh zikh vi a fon tseflatert Shalom! mir rufn Nor plutsem krigshifn bafaln! Oys glik! Men firt undz tsurik!
Nor s’vet geshen! S’muz geshen! Un mir ale veln vider zayn tsuzamen Ir vet zen, ir vet zen Oykh undzer shif vet shvimen fray af ale yamen Undzer heyliker farlang Um tsu kern zikh in land fun di neviim Vet mekuyem vern, kh’her shoyn di gezangen
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1 Ships sail freely on the sea
The sails flutter in the blue I stay on watch and my mother I must hide in the hold
The ship must flee on the deep No one must find us O storm wind O bring mother and child Quickly to the desired shore Enough waiting!
It will happen, it will happen And we all will be together again You will see, you will see Our ship also will sail freely on all the seas
Our holy longing To return to the land of the prophets
It will be /it will materialize I hear already the song As they bless us Welcome/Blessed are those who come
2 The sea stormed with anger with the torment of the journey Yet we became younger When we saw the shore
And although I was exhausted I waved like a flag Shalom!/Hello! we call But suddenly battleships fall upon us Gone is our luck They are sending us back
But … It will happen… It must happen And we all will be together again You will see, you will see Our ship also will sail freely on all the seas Our holy longing To return to the land of the prophets It will be/it will materialize I hear already the song As they bless us Welcome/Blessed are those who come |
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