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                                                                                                                      Makhateyneste Mayne
                                                                                                     
Music and Lyrics Jewish folks Singer Irma P. Jaunzem

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 Irma P. Jaunzem was born on September 27, 1897 in Minsk.
After finishing high school, her father sent Irma to learn singing and music in St. Petersburg, where  she successfully entered the conservatory. In the summer of 1917 she went on vacation in Minsk, but go back to the conservatory Irma was not meant to be. During the Revolution and the Civil War, she had to act in the small ensembles (chamber theaters thumbnails) postranstvovav from Penza to Sevastopol. After the war was recertified in the Union of Artists (Rabis) and start of a planned
concert work as a member of a small group, which also includes: the young Vladimir Horowitz and Nathan Milstein. About those lean years, Irma remembered this way: "The food problem to some extent accelerated the final solution to the problem of my role. Together with my sisters, I went to the Belarusian villages to barter our underclothes belongings for food. And from there brought untold wealth - roughly about hundred Jewish and Belorussia folk songs. Among them Makhateyneste Mayne.

Yiddish
Ih for fun ajh avek
Ih for fun ajh avek
Majne libe mehatonim
Maine Libe mehatonim

Refrein:
Ih loz ajh iber majn kind
Majn tohter far a shnur
Un zet zi zol nit onvern ir ponim

Mehateneste majne
Mehateneste gitrae
Majn kind fri zol tir mir nit vekn

Refrein
Un tomer vet ir zen
A navle fun majn kind
Vi a mame zol tir dos fardekn

Mehatenste majne
Mehateste gitrae
Af kinder tutmen blud fargisn
Af kinder tutmen blud fargisn

Refrein
Un tomer vet ur zen
As der zun got lib di shnur
Vi a mame zol aih nit fardrisn

Shvigerl majne
Shvigerl gitrae
Tsu ajh kum ih on a parikl
Tsu ajh kum ih on a parikl

Refrain
Un tomer vet ir zany
A shlah a bejze shviger
Bin ih doh a shnurl an antikl



 


English
I leave you to
I leave you to
My favorite in-law
My favorite in-law

I'm leaving you my kid
My daughter for a in-law
Just see that She will not loose her face

My favorite in-law
My favorite in-law
Do not wake up my daughter very early

And if you will not see
A respect from my kid
Like a mother forgive her

My favorite in-law
My favorite in-law
For children we will our blood spill
For children we will our blood spill


And if you will see
That your son love me(in-law)
Like a mother don't get offensive

My Dear In-Law
My Dear In-law
I'm coming without hidden face

But if you will be a bad in-law
I will be also not very good