Fifty-fifty (1917)
from Shtoyst zikh on by Jane Peppler
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Louis Gilrod wrote the lyrics and Joseph Rumshisky (Rumshinsky) wrote the music for this song from the show Uptown-Downtown. The plot of the second verse was stolen and turned into a whole song a generation later: Dir a nickel, mir a nickel. (On one of my previous collections)
I've loved this song for years but had to table it until I could play diminished chords on the keyboard. The lyrics of this song are simply fabulous and so germane right now.
I've loved this song for years but had to table it until I could play diminished chords on the keyboard. The lyrics of this song are simply fabulous and so germane right now.
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Doctors in America have a good business. The drugstore and the undertakers give them bribes. They split everything 50-50, it's a swindle partnership until the sick guy moves away ... to Washington cemetery. Fifty-fifty! You pay your money for medicine and you get Ex-lax and vaseline. Fifty-fifty! It's a bluff all the way around. The druggist and the undertaker, it's a 50-50 scheme!
Full transliterations and translations available free with purchase of entire album.
Full transliterations and translations available free with purchase of entire album.
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from Shtoyst zikh on,
released February 1, 2022
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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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