Di milkh ku (Milk Cow) aka Cabbage Head
from In Odess: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Volume 1 by Mappamundi
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This is the Yiddish version of an old-time tune called Drunken Fool. The first verse is just about identical:
Well the first night that I came home so drunk I could not see,
Found a horse in the stable where my horse ought to be.
"Come here, my little wifey. Explain this thing to me.
How come a horse in the stable where my horse ought to be?"
"You blind fool, you drunken fool, can't you never see?
It's only a milk cow your granny sent to me."
I've traveled this world over, ten thousand miles or more,
But a saddle on a milk cow's back I never did see before.
Well the first night that I came home so drunk I could not see,
Found a horse in the stable where my horse ought to be.
"Come here, my little wifey. Explain this thing to me.
How come a horse in the stable where my horse ought to be?"
"You blind fool, you drunken fool, can't you never see?
It's only a milk cow your granny sent to me."
I've traveled this world over, ten thousand miles or more,
But a saddle on a milk cow's back I never did see before.
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The sheet music with transcription and translation also available. See http://yiddishtheatersongs.com or contact jane@mappamundi.com
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from In Odess: Yiddish Songs from Warsaw Volume 1,
released April 11, 2013
Jane Peppler: vocals, fiddles, piano
Randy Kloko: vocals
Jane Peppler: vocals, fiddles, piano
Randy Kloko: vocals
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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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