Um clássico da música iídiche: "Papirosn" / купите папиросы (letra em iídiche com a tradução inglesa)

Descrição do tema da canção e letras em iídiche e russo dadas por Michel Van Der Burg:
'Story – The song “Papirosn” (in English “Cigarettes”) is about a little boy all alone trying to survive: Wet, hungry, standing in the rain on a cold, foggy, night, a little boy is standing on the corner of a street begging: Please, buy my cigarettes, buy my matches! Help an orphan, save me from hunger! With no father or mother, and after a year roaming the streets together with his little sister, she also died, and he is now all alone, trying to survive." In 
http://michelvanderburg.com/2012/09/21/papirosn/
Tradução inglesa:
Thanks to http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=papirosn

"PAPIROSN"

פאפיעראסן  (Letra em iídiche)"A kalte nakht, a nebldike finster umetum sheyt a yingele fartroiert un kukt zikh arum Fun regn shtist im hor a vant, A koshikl trogt er in hant, un zayne oygn betn yedn shtum Ikh hob shoyn nit keyn koyekh mer  arumtsugeyn in gaz, hungerig un  opgerizn fun dem regn naz.  Ikh shlep arum zikh fun baginen,  keyner git nisht tsu fardinen,  ale lakhn, makhn fun mir shpaz.  Kupitye koyft zhe, koyft zhe papirosn,  trukene fun regn nisht fargozn.  Koyft she bilik benemones,  koyft un hot oyf mir rakhmones,  ratevet fun hunger mikh atsind..  Kupitye koyft she shvebelakh antikn,  dermit verd ir a yosiml derkvikn.  Umzizt mayn shrayen un mayn loyfn,  keyner vil bay mir nit koyfn,  oysgeyn vel ikh muzn vi a hunt.  Mayn tate in milkhome hot farloyrn zayne hent,  mayn mame hot di tsores mer oyshaltn nisht gekent.  Yung in keyver zi getribn,  bin ikh oyf der velt farblibn,  ungliklekh un elnt vi a shteyn.  Breklekh klayb ikh oyf tsum ezn  oyf dem kaltn mark,  a harte bank iz mayn geleger in dem kaltn park.  In dertsu di politziantn, shlog mikh shvern kantn,  z'helft nit mayn betn, mayn geveyn.  Ikh hob gehat a shvesterl, a kind fun der natur,  mit mir tsusamen zikh geshlept hot zi a gants yor.  Mit ir geven iz mir fil gringer, laykhter vern flegt  der hunger, ven ikh fleg a kuk ton nor oyf ir.  Mit amol gevorn iz zi shvakh un zeyer krank,  oyf mayne hent iz zi geshtorbn oyf a gazn-bank.  Un az ikh hob zi farloyrn, hob ikh alts ongevoyrn, zol der toyt shoyn kumen oykh tsu mir." Tradução inglesa: "CIGARETTES" "A cold night, foggy, and darkness everywhere A boy stands sadly and looks around. Only a wall protects him from the rain He holds a basket in his hand and his eyes beg everyone silently: I don't have any strength left to walk the streets hungry and ragged, wet from the rain, I shlep around from dawn. Nobody gives me any earnings, everyone laughs and makes fun of me Buy my cigarettes! Dry ones, not wet from the rain Buy real cheap, Buy and have pity on me. Save me from hunger now Buy my matches, wonderful ones, the best, and with that you will uplift an orphan. My screaming and my running will be for naught. Nobody wants to buy from me- I will have to perish like a dog. My father lost his hands in the war My mother couldn't bear her troubles anymore And was driven to her grave at a young age I was left on this earth unhappy and alone like a stone I gather crumbs to eat in the *c*old market A hard bench in the cold park is my bed and on top of that, the police beat me with the edges of their swords and sticks my pleas and my cries are of no use. I had a little sister, a child of nature Together we shlepped around for an entire year. When with her, it was much easier for me. My hunger'd weaken when I glanced at her Suddenly she became weak and sick died in my arms on a street bench And when I lost her I lost everything Let death come already for me, too." Nota descritiva dada pelo site: Note: This song by "Der Poyets" (The Clown), HermanYablokoff, tells the tale of an orphaned cigarette peddler freezing in the rain on a street corner. Papirosn long ago entered the folk tradition, with several variants. One is the doina or lament in Rumanian-Yiddish style; another is a rollicking dance-band version in Klezmer style. Notes from Steward Hendrickson's homepage LYRICS  Herman Yablokoff MUSIC  Traditional Bulgarian Folk Tune SINGER Mandy Patinkin Dudu Fisher SHEET MUSIC    From the Virtual Klezmer website                 In http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?song=papirosn Não só pelo aspecto musical em si mas também pela pungente temática social, esta canção é realmente muito especial...evidentemente que isto não quer dizer que eu apoie o fumo, risos.