Der Rebbe Elimelech
Der Rebbe Elimelech is a Yiddish song published in 1927 by the communist satirist Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole.
Lyrics and translation
Yiddish
Yiddish lyrics:English translation
When Rabbi ElimelekhBecame happy,
He took off his tefillin
And he put on his glasses
And he sent for his two fiddlers.
And the fiddling fiddlers
Fiddlingly fiddled!
Oh, they fiddlingly fiddled, they did!