Tum Balalayka - Yiddish Song - Dorothea Fayne video

Songs from the Jewish New Year 5768 -- Tum-Balalayka (Yiddish Folk Song) Live Performance of the Yiddish folk song -- Tum-Balalayka-- by Dorothea Fayne (Mezzo-Soprano) and Jürgen Gottschalk (Accordion). This song is about a young man, who is having trouble deciding which girl he should marry. In the end he decides that he will marry the girl, who can answer his "three questions" about life... Here is an English translation of the Yiddish folk song -- Tum-Balalayka: "All night long a lad worries which girl to marry Without embarrassing the other one. Maiden, can you tell me what grows without rain? What yearns without tears? What burns forever? Silly lad, a stone can grow without rain. A heart can yearn without tears. And love can burn forever..."

Running time: 03:58

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