《Meeskite》歌词

[00:00:01] Meeskite - Jack Gilford

[00:00:01] Now the only word you have to know to understand this

[00:00:05] Little song is the Yiddish word meeskite

[00:00:10] Meeskite means: ugly funny looking Meeskite means

[00:00:16] Meeskite meeskite

[00:00:18] Once upon a time there was a

[00:00:20] Meeskite meeskite

[00:00:21] Looking in the mirror

[00:00:23] He would say

[00:00:24] What an awful shock

[00:00:26] I've got a face

[00:00:27] That could stop a clock

[00:00:30] Meeskite meeskite

[00:00:31] Such a pity on him

[00:00:33] He is a

[00:00:33] Meeskite meeskite

[00:00:35] God up in his Heaven left him out on a shaky limb

[00:00:40] He put a meeskite on him

[00:00:43] Listen he grew up Even meeskites grow up

[00:00:48] And soon in the Heder (means Hebrew School)

[00:00:52] He sat beside this little girl

[00:00:55] And when he asked her her name

[00:00:58] She replied: "I'm Pearl"

[00:01:03] He ran to the Zeiddah (that's grandfather)

[00:01:06] And said in the scratchy voice of his

[00:01:10] You told me I was the homeliest

[00:01:13] Well gramps you're wrong Pearl is

[00:01:17] Meeskite meeskite

[00:01:18] No one ever saw a bigger

[00:01:20] Meeskite meeskite

[00:01:22] Ev'rywhere a flaw

[00:01:23] And maybe that is the reason why

[00:01:26] I'm going to love her until I die

[00:01:30] Meeskite meeskite

[00:01:32] Oh it is a pleasure she's a

[00:01:34] Meeskite meeskite

[00:01:35] She's the one I'll treasure

[00:01:37] For I thought there could never be

[00:01:40] A bigger meeskite than me

[00:01:43] Listen to what happened

[00:01:45] And so they were married

[00:01:49] And in a year she turned and smiled

[00:01:52] I'm afraid I am going to have a child

[00:02:00] Nine months she carried

[00:02:03] Worrying how's that child would look

[00:02:06] And all the cousins well worried too

[00:02:10] But what a turn fate took

[00:02:15] Gorgeous gorgeous

[00:02:17] They produced a baby that was

[00:02:20] Gorgeous gorgeous

[00:02:22] Crowding 'round the cradle

[00:02:23] All relatives awed and wooed

[00:02:27] He ought to pose for a baby-food

[00:02:32] Gorgeous gorgeous

[00:02:33] Would I tell a lie

[00:02:35] He's simply

[00:02:36] Gorgeous gorgeous

[00:02:37] Who'd have ever thought

[00:02:39] That we will see such a flawless gem

[00:02:43] Out of two meeskites like them

[00:02:47] Wait Wait This story has a moral All my stories have morals

[00:02:54] Moral moral

[00:02:56] Yes indeed the story has a

[00:02:58] Moral moral

[00:03:00] "Thou you not a beauty

[00:03:02] It is nevertheless quite true

[00:03:06] There may be beautiful things in you"

[00:03:13] Meeskite meeskite

[00:03:15] Listen to a fable of the

[00:03:17] Meeskite meeskite

[00:03:19] Anyone responsible for loveliness large or small

[00:03:31] Is not a meeskite at all