MA LA’ASOT
Kama ra li ba’olam, Oyah, anashim tovim, lama ze kulam, kulam bi kol kach mit’ahavim? Ma la’asot, ma la’asot She’ani yafah kazot, sheani ayelet chen veshniyah kamoni ein?
Yesh li guf kalil kalil, ki noladti baGalil, yesh li regel chamudah ki gadalti biYehudah. Ma la’asot, ma la’asot She’ani yafah kazot, veshniyah kamoni ein min hayam ad haYarden?
Lu haya li pe akum Lo haya chaser li klum, lu haya li af gadol, od efshar haya lisbol. Ma la’asot, ma la’asot She’ani yafah kazot, sheani kim’at nochah rak bishvil ta’aruchah?
Kol habachurim, pashut Li omrim: Hineh, namut! Vehabachurot omrot: At osah lanu tzarot! Ma la’asot, ma la’asot She’ani yafah kazot, Shelibi, lamrot hakol, le’ehov eino yachol?
Ach, sof sof, le’asoni, Histabachti gam ani, Pa’am bati leKarkur Umatzati sham bachur Ma la’asot, ma la’asot She’ani tipshah kazot? Rak pagashti bo, ukvar Hitahavti ad hatzavar!
Habachur amar li kach: gam ani ohev otach! Az aniti bekitzur Ve’amarti labachur: Ma la’asot, ma la’asot She’ani yafah kazot, gorali goral misken bo maher venitchaten!
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WHAT TO DO
How bad in the world for me, Ohy, good people, How happens that everybody Fall in love with me? What to do, what to do, That I’m so beautiful, That I’m a gracious doe And there isn’t a second like me?
I have a light, light body, ‘cause I was born in Galilee, I have a gracious leg, ‘cause I grew up in Yehudah. What to do, what to do, That I’m so beautiful, And there isn’t a second like me From the Jordan to the sea?
Had I a twisted mouth, Nothing was still missing, Had I a big nose, It was possible to bear that, What to do, what to do, That I’m so beautiful, That I’m fit almost Only for an exhibition?
All the boys just Say to me: Here we shall die! And the girls say: You make us trouble! What to do, what to do, That I’m so beautiful, That my heart, against it all, Cannot, in love, fall?
But, at last, my disfortune, I became entangled, Once I came to Karkur And I found there a guy, What to do, what to do, That I’m so silly? I just met him, and I Fell in love up to my neck!
The guy said to me so: I’am in love with you too! So I answered shortly, And said to the guy: What to do, what to do, That I’m so beautiful, I have this poor fate: Come, and let’s marry quickly!
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