Budapescht
Music , Lyrics - Jewish Folk
Singer Karster Troyka

Budapescht is a love song, classic unrequited, cross-cultural, song from the perspective of a Jewish boy that fell in love with a Polish girl.
My father understands Yiddish and he helped me to translate what the song is about. A Jewish boy who lives in Budapescht (Hungary) and he sings:
I'm a young and happy lad.
I walked all the streets
and screamed: "Gevolt! I need to find a girl".
Then he sings:
Play Gypsy, on your fiddle
I lost my heart in Budapescht at night when the moon was so bright
I asked the girl to be with me, but she just laughed at me
My father understands Yiddish and he helped me to translate what the song is about. A Jewish boy who lives in Budapescht (Hungary) and he sings:
I'm a young and happy lad.
I walked all the streets
and screamed: "Gevolt! I need to find a girl".
Then he sings:
Play Gypsy, on your fiddle
I lost my heart in Budapescht at night when the moon was so bright
I asked the girl to be with me, but she just laughed at me
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