Bei Mir Bistu Shein
                                                       Music - Sholom Segunda(18941974)   Lyrics - Jacob Jacobs (1932)

The popular Yiddish song "Bei Mir Bistu Shein" was written by Jacob Jacobs (lyricist) and Sholom Secunda (composer) in 1932 for a Yiddish comedy musical  known as "Men Ken Lebn Nor Men Lost Nisht". Later this song was performed by the Andrews Sisters and became a #1 hit in 1938. There are many interpretations  of this song around the world In 2008 Efim Alexandrov(Russian Singer)presented this song during his concert at the "Big Theater" in Moscow.

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Yiddish
Kh'vel dir zogn, dir glaykh tzu hern
Az du zolst mir libe  derklern
Ven du redst mit di oygn
Volt ikh mit dir gefloygn vu du vilst

S'art mikh nit on
Ven du host a bisele seykhl
Un ven du vaytzt dayn
kindershn shmeykhl
Vendu bist vild vi indianer
Bist afile a galitsianer 
Zog ikh: dos art mikh nit. 

Bay mir bistu sheyn,
Bay mir hos tu heyn,
Bay mir bistu eyner oyf der
velt.
Bay mir bistu sheyn,
Bay mir hostu heyn,
Bay mir bistu tayerer
fun gelt. 

Fil sheyne meydlekh hobn gevolt nemen mir,
Un fun zey ale oysgeklibn hob
ikh nor dikh.

English
I will say to you, so you'd
hear directly
so that you would declare (your) love to me
When you speak
with your eyes,

I would fly with you wherever you wish
I do not care  where.
When you have a bit of sense
And when you show your childlike
little smile
When you are wild as an Indian
Even if you were a  Galitzyaner,
I say: It doesn't bother me. 

To me, you are lovely,
To me, you are charming.
To me, you are the
only one in the world.
To me, you are lovely,
To me, you are charming,

To me, you are more precious than money. 
Many pretty girls wanted me for a spouse
and among them all I chose only  you.