Vu nemt men a fraynd? (Where Do You Find a Friend?)
from Vos hot men tsu mir? What Have They Got Against Me? Yiddish songs 1895-1922 Volume 2 by Jane Peppler & Friends
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Another grouchy song by Morris Rund set to the lovely tune "Ven men ruft dikh tsurik."
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Consider the world well, how false everyone is these days!
As soon as you're poor and have no money, you won't have a friend.
Everyone laughs when things are bad for you, nobody feels your suffering.
You won't get a friend even if you seek him with a lantern
Just because you don't have money for bread.
Oh, how false the world is today!
Your best friend is just thinking of your money.
As soon as you're rich you'll have lots of friends
Who will smile with you day and night.
They're planning to get your goods, your riches,
These days you won't find a real friend
Even if you search with a lantern.
Consider that man over there: how lonely his world is now!
He had lots of friends when he was spending his money.
Now that he's weak and old, he's lost his riches.
Everybody looks at him with cold indifference.
He doesn't have a single friend any more!
As soon as you're poor and have no money, you won't have a friend.
Everyone laughs when things are bad for you, nobody feels your suffering.
You won't get a friend even if you seek him with a lantern
Just because you don't have money for bread.
Oh, how false the world is today!
Your best friend is just thinking of your money.
As soon as you're rich you'll have lots of friends
Who will smile with you day and night.
They're planning to get your goods, your riches,
These days you won't find a real friend
Even if you search with a lantern.
Consider that man over there: how lonely his world is now!
He had lots of friends when he was spending his money.
Now that he's weak and old, he's lost his riches.
Everybody looks at him with cold indifference.
He doesn't have a single friend any more!
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from Vos hot men tsu mir? What Have They Got Against Me? Yiddish songs 1895-1922 Volume 2,
released May 9, 2016
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Mappamundi Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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