Burikes: Di tsukunft

Описание: Di tsukunft [The Future] performed by Burikes in February 2020 / Shevat 5780.

Yiddish text by Morris Winchevsky
English translation by Adah Hetko
Arrangement by Burikes

Burikes:
Adah Hetko, guitar and vocals
Ariel Shapiro, accordion and vocals
Clarissa Lyons, clarinet
Matthew Thornton, cello and vocals
Rachel Leader, violin
Ozzy Gold-Shapiro, ukulele and vocals

Special thanks to Eric Donnelly for filming this video, to Sophia Shoulson for help with the translation, and to Matthew Thornton for sound recording!

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Lyrics:
o, di velt vet vern yinger,
un dos lebn laykhter, gringer,
yeder kloger vet a zinger
vern, brider, bald.

loz dos folk nor vern kliger,
un faryogn dem batriger,
im, dem fuks, un oykh dem tiger
fun zayn sheynem vald.

Oh the world will glow with beauty
Love enhanced and hatred puny
Between every state and country
People tearing down walls

loz di glaykhkeyt nor bazign
farbrekhn, shvindl un lign,
loz der mentsh nor endlekh krign
mentshlekhn farshtand.

loz dos folk zikh nor nisht bangen
frish a hoyb zikh tsu derlangen
un zikh nemen - nisht farlangen -
zayne rekht oyf der erd.

mutik brider, mutik shvester!
yener kamf, der letster, grester
ruft aykh fun di tukhle nester*
oyfn frayen feld.

And the world will become freer
Freer, newer, younger, dearer
And the truth within her clearer
Ringing clear as a bell

alzo, mutik in di rayen,
in di rayen, tsu bafrayen
tsu bafrayen un banayen
undzer alte velt.

As you struggle become braver
Activist and liberator
Be a hero and creator
Re-imagining our world