The song “On the road there is a tree” is Yiddish language and is titled: “Oyfn veg shteyt to Boym”.
He tells of a mother who does not fly his baby on the tree of life to have it loaded with too many clothes.
It was the favorite song of Moshe Zeiri, although he did not want to be sung in Selvino because he wanted all the boys learned Hebrew and forget their origins, wanted that Hebrew was the common language of the colony and that the future of his boys was in Palestine. But often many kids, Poles like Moshe, the singing and Moshe joined them: he knew that his children would not have to put too many clothes not to prevent them from flying to the promised land of Eretz Yisrael!
Sidney Zoltak, a Selvino Child, who lives in Canada and who remembers that song, wanted to sing it for us with his deep voice, accompanied by his guitar to Aron Gonshor.
And ‘the memory of the master, Moshe Zeiri, the real engine of life in Selvino, the educator and father of the Selvino children.
The words are Yitzik Manger and music Shmuel Fischer, but it is a popular classic theme.
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OYFN VEG SHTEYT A BOYM Oyfn veg shteyt a boym, Dray keyn mayrev, dray keyn mizrekh, Zog ikh tsu der mamen: -her, Ikh vel zitsn oyfn boym Zogt di mame: – nite, kind – Zog ikh: -mame, s’iz a shod Veynt di mame: – ltsik, kroyn, Di kaloshn tu zikh on, – Un dos vinter-laybl nem, Kh’heyb di fligl, s’iz mir shver, Kuk ikh troyerik mir arayn Oyfn veg shteyt a boym,
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ON THE ROAD STANDS A TREE
On the road stands a tree, Turn toward the west, turn toward the east, I say to momma–“Listen, I’ll sit in the tree And momma says, “No, child,” So I say, “Momma, it’s a waste And momma cries: – Itzik, my Crown, “Put on your galoshes, “And take your warm underwear, I lift my wing, but it’s hard… I look sadly straight forward On the road stands a tree, |
