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Di libe fun a heyliker mame (The Love of a Holy Mother)

from Lebedik Yankel: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Vol. 2 by Jane Peppler and friends

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Benzion Witler sang this in a show called "Bandit Gentlemen," but I transcribed it as sung by Herman Fenigstein. An orphan, buffeted by storms, longs for his dead mother. (See, you'll be sorry when I'm gone!)
A great tango.

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from Lebedik Yankel: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Vol. 2, released September 12, 2013
Jane Peppler: vocals and fiddle
Randy Kloko: bass vocals
Roger Lynn Spears: piano

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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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