Songs about Mothers and Fathers

1. Family conflicts expressed in parent-child dialogues
2. Songs about mothers and fathers referred to on the webpage
3. Songs about grandparents

1. Family conflicts expressed in parent-child dialogues

Ladino

♦ Ay madre, buscai me con quien duerma [O mother, find me someone to sleep with] - Daughter will sleep with her lover in the well
♦ Desde hoy, la mi madre [From this day, my mother] - Daughter leaves mother to go and serve husband
♦ Dos amantes tengo, la mi mama [Two lovers have I, dear mother] - Girl asks mother to help her choose
♦ Hija mia, te quero dar [Daughter, I wish to give you] - Mother names various suitors
♦ La comida la mañana [The meal of the morning] - Young girl wants to marry for love; mother worries about honour
♦ Levantisme, madre [I woke up, mother] - Girl goes to market to buy a husband
♦ Majka Rada [Rada's mother] - Daughter isn't interested in the choice of husbands her mother offers her.
♦ Mi mama si asenta i pensa [My mother sits and thinks] – Ambitious mother thinking about who her daughter can marry
♦ Papa, sos sin corazon [Father, you don't have a heart] – Son rails against father’s wish for yichus
♦ Una matica de ruda [A sprig of rue] - Mother disapproves of daughter's young suitor

Yiddish

♦ Der yunginker shnayderl [The young tailor] – Parents don’t want the daughter to marry a tailor
♦ Fishelekh [Fish] – A young girl asks her mother to allow her to keep searching for her true love
♦ Di mame hot geshikt [Mother sent] – Mother sends girl shopping, and boys fall in love with her
♦ Di mame iz gegangen [Mother went] – Mother goes to market to get a husband for her daughter
♦ Di mame kokht varenikes [Mother cooks varenikes] – Mother forbids her son to marry a girl with no money
♦ Farvos veynstu sheyndele [Why are you crying, Sheyndele] (Gebirtig) – Daughter wants to marry a tailor; mother is reminded of a former love
♦ Mamenyu lyubenyu - Girl has fallen in love with a worthless boy
♦ Oy narishe briye [O foolish creature] (Gebirtig) – Mother tries to dissuade her daughter from marrying a tailor’s apprentice
♦ Voszhe vilstu [What do you want?] - Mother names possible suitors; daughter wants a klezmer
♦ Yome – Young girl wants a groom more than anything else
♦ Zhamele - Son doesn't live up to his mother's dreams

2. Songs about mothers and fathers referred to on the webpage

[See databases for more details; Lullabies and children's songs are listed separately]

(a) Yiddish

Name of Song	Words	Music	Source
Babi Yar	Driz, Sh.	Boyarsky, R.	Disk:
Bay dem taykh	Folksong
Bay mayn mames heyzele / shtub	Folksong
A brif fun amerike	Warshavsky, M.	Warshavsky, M.
A brivele der mame	Smulevits, S.
Der alter menashe
Der kashtnboyn	Perlov, I.	Folman, L.
Der mames entfer	Warshavsky, M.	Warshavsky, M.
Di mame	Gebirtig, M.	Gebirtig, M.
Di mame iz gegangen / A yingele fun poyln	Folksong
Di mame kokht varenikes	Folksong
Farvos, zog mir, mamenyu	Gebirtig, M.	Gebirtig, M.
Farvos zol zayn mayn khosn a soldat	Folksong
Fun gros dosade	Folksong
Hungerik dayn ketsele	Gebirtig, M.	Hofman, Y.
Ikh volt mikh gern erkindikt	Folksong	Folksong	Cassette: Lifshe Schaechter-Widman
Kartofl zup	Gebirtig, M.	Gebirtig, M.
Mamele	Parish, Alstone & Goodhart
Mamenyu, lyubenyu	Folksong
Mayn mames shabes likht	Yellen, J.
Mayn shvester Haye	Heller, Binem	Albershtein, Chava	Disk:
Meyerke, mayn zun	R' L. I. Berdichiver
Motele	Gebirtig, M.	Gebirtig, M.
Moyshele	Gebirtig, M.	Gebirtig, M.
Nokhemke, mayn zun	Folksong
Oy, mame, bin ikh farlibt	Ellstein, Abe	Ellstein, Abe
Oy, mame, shlog mikh nisht
Oy, mamenyu mayn	Gebirtig, M.	Gebirtig, M.
Oy vey, mame	Folksong
Oyfn veg shteyt a boym	Manger, I.	Folk
Tsu der mame	Grade, H.	Levin, L.
Ver hot aza meydele / yingele	Fleishman, J.
Vi shlekht un vi biter	Folksong
Vos-zhe vilstu	Folksong
A yidish kind	Kheytin-Weinstein, H.
A yidishe mame	Yellen, Jack	Pollock, Lou
A yidishe tate	Kemelmakher, Samson
Yo, mayn libe tokhter / Di yidishe tokhter	Ellstein, Abe
A yor nokh mayne khasene	Reingold, I.	Reingold, I.
Yosemame	Gordon, S. / Cooper, A.	Svigals, A.
Zhamele	Litvin, A. (Hurvits, S.)
Zing shtil	Younin, W.	Secunda, Sh.

(b) Ladino

Adio, querida	Folksong
El rey de Francia	Romansa
Hija mia te quero dar	Folksong
Ir me quero	Folksong
Malana tripa de madre	Part of romansa Blancaflora y Filomena
Mama mia, mi querida	Folksong
Mama yo no tengo visto	Folksong
Mi padre era de francia	Folksong
Porque llorash	Romansa
Se paseava Silvana	Romansa
Shalom Rashel Levi	Folksong
Una matica de ruda	Folksong

3. Songs about grandparents referred to on the webpage