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For the first time, the song “Vos bistu, ketzel, broiges” appeared in one of the Jewish “spires” at the beginning of the last century. The plot is something like this: a guy wooes a girl who is a little “snobbish” and thinks that he is not a match for her. Then the guy gives her her pedigree:

Vus bisti, ketsele, baroygez,

In vus zhe geysti upgelozt di nuz?

In efsher vilsti visn mayn yikhes,

Finvanen ikh shtam aroys?

Mayn tate iz a shmarevoznik

Oy, in di mame ganvet fish in mark,

Oy, in mayn brider iz a kartyozhnik,

Zoln zey ale zayn gezint in shtark!

Vus bisti, ketsele, baroygez,

In vus zhe geysti upgelozt di nuz?

In efsher vilsti visn mayn yikhes,

Finvanen ikh shtam aroys?

Der feter iz geshtanen in di rogn,

Oy, in di bobe a hendlerke in gas,

In eyn brider zitst in ostrogn,

In di shvester tra-la-la-la-la...

Farvus zhe bisti azoy ungeblusn,

Ikh bet dokh kim tsi mir arayn in shtib,

Oy, vus zhe toyg dir bluzn vi di huzn

Oy, iz dokh, dushe, hob dikh azoy lib!

Iz zay nit, ketsele, of mir baroygez,

In gey zhe nit aropgelozt di nuz,

Vayl di veyst ingantsn mayn yikhes,

Fin vanen ikh shtam - yo, finvanen ikh shtam -

Fin vanen ikh shtam - aroys!

(Why are you angry, pussy?

Why are you turning up your nose?

Do you want to know about your origin?

This is how I can tell you:

Your father is a scavenger,

Mother steals fish from the market

Your brother is a gambler,

And my sister lives with a Cossack

Your uncle is "standing on his horns"

Your aunt is a street vendor,

Brother is in prison

Sister - she’s just... tra-la-la.

Your grandfather was a shoikhet,

Grandma is a bath attendant,

And you yourself -

A stray from the shelter.)

There are a huge number of variations of this song. The Berry sisters perform it in the Ukrainian-Moldavian dialect of the Yiddish language.

Information taken from the Megapolis website forum