"Drey Dreydl" performed by fantastic Boston Workers Circle members:
Jonah Sidman - fiddle, vocals
Julia Donnelly Spiegelman - clarinet
Uri Schreter - piano


Song is in Yiddish with English captions.

"Drey Dreydl" is known from the performance of Moishe Oysher. Lyrics may have been written by Oysher, or by Abraham Ellstein, or by both together. The melody was likely written by David Beigelman.


Video editing by Madeleine Jackman. Learn more about Boston Workers Circle: circleboston.org.



English Translation:
Bring me bread and bring me wine
We’ll have ourselves a grand ol’ time
I’ve got the latkes and the fish
The table’s set with every dish

Menorah lit, blessings made
Magnificence in every shade
All the candles speak aloud
Of everything that makes me proud

(Chorus)
Spin, dreidel, from nun to a win
Spin, dreidel, to a win!
Come the week of Chanukah
Everything goes my way

Every candle has a soul
They remind me that I’m whole
Dazzling without end
Everyone is my dear friend

Even the heretics, call them in
Let’s not judge our kith and kin
May they themselves be aware
A great miracle happened there

Who could ever have foreseen
A scrap of light, barely gleaned
For generations long would burn
And light our way at every turn

Even our enemies, let them sit
Don’t punish them, God, just scare them a bit
Bring me bread and bring me wine
Let’s all have a grand old time


Yiddish transliteration:
Breng mir broyt un breng mir vayn
Veln mir ale freylekh zayn
Kh’hob shoyn latkes fleysh un fish
Un a vays gedektn tish

Kh’hob di brokhes shoyn gemakht
Di menoyre shaynt a prakht
Toyznt zunen yeder flam
Shtolts bin ikh mir mit mayn shtam

(Chorus)
Drey, dreydl fun nun tsum gerotn
Drey, dreydl tsum gerotn
Kumt di vokh fun khanuke
Iz alts bay mir gerotn

Yeder likhtl hot a zin
Es dermont mikh ver ikh bin
Di menoyre iz oysfarshaynt
Ale zenen mayne fraynt

Apikorsim ruf arayn
S’zol zey nisht gerekhnt zayn
Zoln zey take zen aleyn
S’iz a groyser nes geshen

Ver hot zikh af dem gerikht
Az a shtikl brekl likht
Brenen vet af doyres lang
Un balaykhtn undzer gang

Breng afile sonim mit
Shrek zey, got, nor shtrof zey nit
Breng mir broyt un breng mir vayn
Veln mir ale freylekh zayn

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