Samet un Zayd (Velvet and Silk) - Yiddish song about a girl with incorrect values...
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Here's a live video of Samet un Zayd aka Samet und Seid or, as on the label of Anna Hoffman's 78, Somid in Seid:
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Like In dem hoyz vu men veynt un men lakht which I've also put on this blog, this song has a severe disconnect between the cheerful, jazzy tune and the grim story of a girl who ends up DEAD because she likes fancy clothes.
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A guiltless girl in a poor land blooms like a beautiful flower. She gives herself to a rich guy because she thirsts for money and glory. The rich man buys her innocence for a silk shirt, her love for a penny. Her life's strength disappears, the rich guy appeases his appetite, then he pants quietly.
Velvet and silk can't heal the anguish and suffering of a sick soul. How empty to sell virtue. She gambled her youth on velvet and silk. What good is silk that brings suffering? The hearts cut to the bone. People admire a cheap dress on an honest girl more than velvet and silk.
Late at night the ambulance brought a beautifully dressed girl to the hospital. Fate brought her to drinking poison because a rich man deceived her. She was dressed in velvet and silk, her face white as chalk. When night turned to day she was already dead, a sacrifice to velvet and silk.
Velvet and silk can't heal the anguish and suffering of a sick soul. How empty to sell virtue. She gambled her youth on velvet and silk. What good is silk that brings suffering? The hearts cut to the bone. People admire a cheap dress on an honest girl more than velvet and silk.
Late at night the ambulance brought a beautifully dressed girl to the hospital. Fate brought her to drinking poison because a rich man deceived her. She was dressed in velvet and silk, her face white as chalk. When night turned to day she was already dead, a sacrifice to velvet and silk.
Labels: battle between the sexes, modernity, songs for sale
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