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                                                                                                                                                    A BISL LIBE, UN A BISELE GLIK 
                                                                                                              
Music Joseph  Rumshinsky(1881–1956),  Lyrics Unknown
                                                                                                         Singer
Zoila Canta

Picture
 Jewish composer and Conductor Joseph Rumshinsky was born near Vilna in Lithuania (then part of Russian
Poland). He graduated from the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1903 he traveled to London to avoid getting recruited into the czar's army. Rumshinsky is considered one of the "big four" figures of American Yiddish theater together
with Alexander Olshanetsky,Sholom Secunda and Abraham Ellstein. The song A BISL LIBE, UN A BISELE GLIK comes from the 1924 musical comedy Tsipke. The comedy is about a poor, young Jewish woman (Picon)  who, after concocting and carrying out an elaborate and deceptive scheme to extract money from a wealthy family, tells all and winds up finding true happiness.

Yiddish
Ven ikh ben geven a kind
Gedenk ikh punkt vi a tzind
Geven iz mir da-moltst gut
Gevust hob ikh dan fun kayn zorg nit
Ven ikh bin gevorn groys,
Ikh bin in der velt aroys.
Gezen  vi mentchn zey zaynen farshtelt,
Gevorn iz mir fintster mayn  velt. 

A bisl libe un a bisele glik,
Di zun  zol shaynen
Nor oyf eyn oygnblik
Ven ikh zol kenen in mayn Hartz 
arayn brengen zonnenshayn
oyf eyn minit 


A bisl libe un a bisele glik
Di zun  zol shaynen
Nor oyf eyn oygnblik
Der liber Got hot yedn gegebn
Azoy  fil glik in lebn
Nor mir keyn zakh nit.

English  
When I was a little child,
I still can recall the time, 
Ah, those were the good old days.
I knew not a care nor a worry.

When I was at last full grown
I wandered the world around
Seeing how  people are hollow and false,
My world was a darker place. 

A little love and a little luck,
The sun shall shine
Just a little bit
When I'll know in my heart
to bring the sunshine  around
in a minute.

 A little love and a little luck,
The sun shall shine 
just a little bit
To every one our dear lord has given
A bit of luck  in living,
Don't deny me mine
.