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The sheet music begins with a long verse Lucy Gehrman did not record (she sang just the chorus, which says: the eternal mother, what a patsy). My favorite part: "One mother can care for ten children but ten children, God forbid, will let their mother beg in the street."

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from Lebedik Yankel: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Vol. 2, released September 12, 2013

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Mappamundi Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Folk music band plays "More-or-less traditional music of the Northern Hemisphere and the Previous Millennium." Vocals, lots of instruments, specializing in Eastern European music (Balkan, Slavic, Russian, Polish); Jewish music in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino; Celtic, British Isles and early American / Colonial music. And swing. ... more

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