SHEDEMATI


 

O, my field,
That I sewed at morn in tears –
The yeoman’s prayer was heard.

My field drank in the heavy dew,
Imbibed the sun’s warm light.
Before the stooping reaper came,
Its stalks bowed low with grain.

With easy stride his scythe did fall
And swing again up high.
With easy stride, an upward swing
Then blade did fall and rise,
And swing again up high.

O, my field,
In golden tresses on the ground,
Its ripe bounty – our delight.

MY FIELD


Shedemati
Im shachar zera’tiha bedim’ah,
T’filat hayogev nishma’ah.

Shedemati ravta t’lalim,
Shachrah mei’or chamah,
Lifnei kotzer shachah, shachah kamah.

Betza’ad kal chermesh kalal,
Yunaf el al.
Betza’ad kal yunaf
Chermesh kalal yunaf,
Yunaf el al.

Shedemati
Zahav names shafuch al adamah,
Rinateinu al hakamah.
Hoy…


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Hebrew words

Shavuot Songs and Dances
1973 video of Shedemati

LYRICS
Yitzchak Shenhar
MUSIC
Yedidya Admon
SINGER
Ofra Haza
The Dudaim
CD
Ofra Haza Shirey Moledet Part 1+2 Track 13
The Dudaim 30th Anniversary Track 7
DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER
Bentzi Tiram 1975
DANCE FORMAT
Partner
DANCE CHOREOGRAPHER
Dani Dassa 1985
DANCE FORMAT
Circle

Words transliterated and translated by Gila Ansell Brauner of Jerusalem, Israel.
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