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Song Parodies -> "Yiddish Rhapsody"
Original Song Title:
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
(MP3)Original Performer:
Queen
Parody Song Title:
"Yiddish Rhapsody"
Parody Written by:
The Comedian
The Lyrics
I love the Yiddish language! Yiddish has a vocabulary that sparkles with what I can only describe as "definitional-onomatopoeia". Modern American English contains many commonly-used expressions that come directly from Yiddish - you will probably recognize some of them in this parody.
Is this a mitzvah?
Is this really Yiddish?
Only a shvitzer
Who's meshuganah would write this
Abi gezunt,
Sha shtil, shvayg, and listen, please!
I'm just a goyem
Who loves this Yiddish-speak
It's so fun to say!
It's a joy!
So heymish!
Ut azoy!
Any way the vint blows
It's nisht ahir un nish aher - nor there ...
Mamme ... just ate fleyshik
Just a little as forshpaytz
Then I realized that it's trayf
Mamme ... I'm no paskudnyak
Although I kvetch I'm not moyshe pupik
Mamme ... oooo
Didn't want you to farklempt
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Zay gezunt, zay gezunt
It's nisht ahir un nish aher ...
Too late ... I'm farchadat ...
I'm such a shlemazel
Name should be Chiam Yankel
Goodbye, everybody - a sheynem dank
Gotta leave you all and face my own tsoris
Mamme ... oooo ( any way the vint blows )
I feel farfalen!
I should have learned to really ke nignehore!
This song's a little cokamammie I admit
Oy gevald! Oy gevald! It's a parody - voden ?
If you do not like it, just kush meer in toches, please!
Mame-loshin! ( Mame-loshin! )
Mame-loshin! ( Mame-loshin! )
Mame-loshin! Gezunter! Menshlechykayt!
I'm just a goyem, nobody loves me
He's just a goyem, from a goy family
His Yiddish stinks - voden, from a goyem?
So farklempt, farfalen, will you lomir geyn ?
OY GE-VALD - NO! They will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
OY GE-VALD! They will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
OY GE-VALD! They will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
Will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
Will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
Never lomir geyn, ah oh oh - Oy Oy Oy Oy Oy Oy OY !!
I'm farshluginer, farshluginer, farshluginer, lomir geyn!
Beelzebub has a teufel put aside for me, for me, FOR ME
So you think that a shtick holtz like you doesn't shmek?
Then why when I'm around you you shmek just like dreck?
You shmendrick! Kush meer in toches shmendrick!
You tochus leker! Ver derharget tochus leker!
Nisht ahir - nish aher
Anyone can see
Nisht ahir - nish aher
Nisht ahir - nish aher - to me ...
...Any way the vint blows...
Is this really Yiddish?
Only a shvitzer
Who's meshuganah would write this
Abi gezunt,
Sha shtil, shvayg, and listen, please!
I'm just a goyem
Who loves this Yiddish-speak
It's so fun to say!
It's a joy!
So heymish!
Ut azoy!
Any way the vint blows
It's nisht ahir un nish aher - nor there ...
Mamme ... just ate fleyshik
Just a little as forshpaytz
Then I realized that it's trayf
Mamme ... I'm no paskudnyak
Although I kvetch I'm not moyshe pupik
Mamme ... oooo
Didn't want you to farklempt
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Zay gezunt, zay gezunt
It's nisht ahir un nish aher ...
Too late ... I'm farchadat ...
I'm such a shlemazel
Name should be Chiam Yankel
Goodbye, everybody - a sheynem dank
Gotta leave you all and face my own tsoris
Mamme ... oooo ( any way the vint blows )
I feel farfalen!
I should have learned to really ke nignehore!
This song's a little cokamammie I admit
Oy gevald! Oy gevald! It's a parody - voden ?
If you do not like it, just kush meer in toches, please!
Mame-loshin! ( Mame-loshin! )
Mame-loshin! ( Mame-loshin! )
Mame-loshin! Gezunter! Menshlechykayt!
I'm just a goyem, nobody loves me
He's just a goyem, from a goy family
His Yiddish stinks - voden, from a goyem?
So farklempt, farfalen, will you lomir geyn ?
OY GE-VALD - NO! They will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
OY GE-VALD! They will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
OY GE-VALD! They will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
Will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
Will not lomir geyn!
(Lomir geyn!)
Never lomir geyn, ah oh oh - Oy Oy Oy Oy Oy Oy OY !!
I'm farshluginer, farshluginer, farshluginer, lomir geyn!
Beelzebub has a teufel put aside for me, for me, FOR ME
So you think that a shtick holtz like you doesn't shmek?
Then why when I'm around you you shmek just like dreck?
You shmendrick! Kush meer in toches shmendrick!
You tochus leker! Ver derharget tochus leker!
Nisht ahir - nish aher
Anyone can see
Nisht ahir - nish aher
Nisht ahir - nish aher - to me ...
...Any way the vint blows...
Definitions of all Yiddish terms used in this parody can be found at this website: http://www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm
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Good,'cept I got lost! I'm just used to once in a while words on "The Nanny"
This parody is so full of Yiddish words, how did you schlep it onto this site? Mazel Tov!
Thanks, Adagio and Mari D ! I included the dictionary link at the bottom to help folks figure out unfamiliar terms.
"Lomir geyn" = "Let me go"
"Lomir geyn" = "Let me go"
Hey JD - You actually used Beelzebub in this one. I think we used up all the rhyming ideas for this anyway. What a novel idea and that ol' boy Beelzebub has been giving the Jews grief for a long time now. This would sound awesome if it were actually performed by someone who could actually do the Yiddish accent well. Nice job, JD.
Thanks Guy!
What's Yiddish for "fives, mate"?
I don't know ABD, but you're a mensch for asking! Thanks!
Folks - here's a wonderful website where you can not only find all the definitions for all the Yiddish terms used in this parody, but also where they have short audio clips for many of those same terms, so you can hear how they are actually pronounced:
http://www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm
http://www.koshernosh.com/dictiona.htm
As Woody Allen would say , "I ate, d'jew? Oy!
Thanks Rick!
My grandfather told me that if you use the word "gevalt" twice in one day, it's bad luck. He lived to be 78, despite living on the Lower East Side, the Depression, The War, McCarthyism, and, most dangerous of all, driving a cab in New York! So I guess he knew what he was talking about. As for what you're talking about... Considering how hard this song is in English, anybody who doesn't give this one all fives is a schmuck!
Thanks Michael - I have absolute faith that my truly genuine and heartfelt love for the Yiddish dialect cancels out any superstitious stuff !!! Even though I was not raised in a Yiddish-speaking community, there's just something about the music of that language that appeals to me....it has its own innate sense of playfulness, I guess!
Johnny, Myron Cohen would give you such a hug! A Jewish friend of mine sent me this joke yesterday. Enjoy! Sol visits Abe and sees a dog in the house. "So what kind of dog is this?" asks Sol. "It's a Jewish dog. His name is Max," says Abe. "Watch this," continues Abe as he points to the dog. "Max, Fetch!" Max walks slowly to the door, then turns around and says, "So why are you talking to me like that? You always order me around like I'm nothing. And then you make me sleep on the floor, with my arthritis... You give me this fahkahkta food with all the salt and fat, and you tell me it's a special diet...It tastes like dreck! YOU should eat it yourself!...And do you ever take me for a decent walk? NO, it's out of the house, a short pish, and right back home. Maybe if I could stretch out a little, the sciatica wouldn't kill me so much!" Sol, amazed, tells Abe how remarkable this is, to which Abe answers, "I don't know, I think this dog has a hearing problem. I said fetch, and he thought I said kvetch."
LOL !! David, thanks so much for that wonderful joke! I emailed it to members of my family - it's hysterical! And thanks for your vote and comment!
You want Myron Cohen? I'll give you Myron Cohen: A man calls a mortician. "Morty, it's Sid. You gotta prepare a funeral. My wife just died." "Sid, you're drunk. Or you're losing your mind. I buried your wife two years ago!" "No, Morty, I got married again." "Oh! Congratulations!"
Thanks MP - Mazel Tov !
(ABC) You creative mensch! The pacing seems off at times, obviously to fit the words, but Nisht ahir - nish aher, mein boy. Good job! (but voden? :))
Thanks Agri !
(ABC3-Y) A lot of work you did here, JD! Genius stuff :-) 555
Jew-tastic!!!
Ahn shaynem dank dir im pupik (lol). No, zolst NICHT ligen in drerd, zolst leben un zein gezunt. Like three times in fifth heaven?
ABC...holy cow, JD...I don't even like to think about how hard this must have been to write! Nice work!
(abc3y) that is very funny JD - and it's funny because it just sounds so frickin funny - 555
ABC- Johnny, you must have had a hell of a time writing this, but the end results were great. Are you sure it was Yiddish and not gibberish? :)
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