Burikes: Di tsukunft

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! **** 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