The Levins - LYRICS

ALBUM: Trust

ALBUM: My Friend Hafiz

THE LEVINS

ALBUM : TRUST : © 2015 - All music/lyrics written by
Ira Scott Levin and Julia Bordenaro Levin
(except #3 - Love Song by Bruce Cockburn)

TRUST

I read a quote of Eleanor’s at the Cafe,
“Do something that scares you everyday.”
Ever since then, I have stopped hiding away.
I can’t keep this light to myself on my way, on my way.

You’ve got to move to change the state you’re in.
You’ve got to roll to strike all the pins.
You’ve got to get on if you’re driving the bus.
The race has begun and we must trust.

When I find myself in an unknown place,
I can see old friends in each new face.
And when the fear takes hold, you will find
I am beside you.The road may curve
but we’ll just have to ride; we’ll just have to ride through...

You can hide from your fate, you can hide from your day.
You can hide from your pain ‘til your light goes away.
If you don’t like what you’re thinking about,
then you can shift. You can turn it around.
Hope brings motion, motion brings change;
Change is your friend when the going gets strange.

When the going gets strange... ...and we must trust.

I AM HERE

It's so isolating to ride up on this cycle
with fear of being idle, with my anger on parade.

In saying that I have no time, I limit my lucidity,
become an addict to validity,I take myself out of my prime.
I have time, I have time

If I step out of the story then I get the chance to see-
There's a bigger picture here,something more for me.

I am here and I am needed.I will stand up and be greeted
by what comes my way.I will fill my day with love;
with love, with love, with love.

Always justifing my existence,always chained to my reactions,
In a moment of resistance, I might get some satisfaction.
In saying that there’s not enough, I’m holding on to scarcity,
clinging to adversity as if I’ve got it rough.
I have enough. I am enough.

If I step out of the story, then I get the chance to see
there's a bigger picture here.Something more than me...

LOVE SONG - (Bruce Cockburn)

In the place my wonder comes from,
there, I find you. Your face shines in my sky.

In your heart where the world comes from,
there, you will find me. Your eyes dance in my mind.

So, come with me.We will sail on the wind.
We will sway among the yellow grass.
When you be beside me, I am real.
Though my eyes be closed forever,
still, I would find you. You shine across my time.

So come with me. We will sail on the wind.
We will sway among the yellow grass.
When you be beside me, I am real.

In the place my wonder comes from, there...I find you.

LINES IN THE LAND

Traipsing the Michael-Mary as the sky lanterns rise
in an arc-aligned sign over Glastonbury.
We feel the power going into our hands
on this New Year’s night. It’s the land’s way of saying
“hello, I’ve got so much to tell you, there’s so much to know.”

There’s a circle of stones in a green carpet field,
there’s something inside us that’s starting to yield.
Standing over us… watching over us.

The red and white springs rising. Tiny candles, they guard.
they are holding a space when our hearts becomes hard.
When our hopes become barren, the branches of trees
reach out to embrace us, before our souls freeze.
Go out past the ruins and see what this means.
There’s an intricate weave between seen and unseen,
pulsing life into Winter until white becomes green.
Standing over us, Watching over us

There are lines in the land that are unmarred by time.
They hum to us softly converging in rhyme.
Like the song that we sing at the start of the year,
it was penned in the past and it calls us to hear.
Standing over us, Watching over us

STUCK

I was stuck sitting inside self pity
in the heart of the city of Woe-Is-Me.
Peace came along
saying you can be strong
Look inside and see.

But I ran away saying that’s okay,
I will see you another day.
Too many things that I must do.
Until then, there’s no time for you.

So I climbed a ladder and I scaled a wall,
and I reached the top and I began to fall.
I was losing power, I was losing steam,
I was so unhappy, I had lost my dream...

So I wrote a book and then I sang a song,
and I painted a picture but before too long
my thoughts ran dry and I started to cry,
I’m stuck in the desert and I don’t know why.

I was stuck sitting inside self pity
in the heart of the city of Woe-Is-Me.
Peace came along saying you can be strong.
Look inside and see.

So I heaved a big sigh and I opened wide
and I let peace come inside.

Well, all at once I was feeling strong,
time was sweet and life was long.
There’s so many things
that I’d like to do,
but with peace inside
they can all ring true.

So if you’re stuck
sitting inside self-pity
in the heart of the city of Woe-Is-Me,
when peace comes along
saying you can be strong...
don’t wait as long as me.
Look inside and see. Look inside.

GOD’S SPIES (King Lear:Act 5, scene 3)
(Inspired by Shakespeare / King Lear)

Sometimes love's depths
can find no words
to paint the picture properly.
Break the silence, speak your truth,
or court uncertain misery.

For some it's all a battleground;
reaping sorrow from mock rage.
But the two of us,
together we’ll sing like birds;
even when we're feeling caged.

As we head off, it occurs to me
there are so many ways to give,
like in King Lear Act 5 Scene 3...
“So we’ll live...
and we’ll pray and sing
and tell old tales and
laugh at gilded butterflies,
and take upon us the mystery of things,
as if we were God's spies.”

We can rail against the storm,
keep the fool for company.
Be sad, go mad, become a crown-less king.
Still, it's down to you and me.

The news is like the tide,
with who loses and who wins.
Pacts and sects of great ones,
who is out and who is in,
ebbs and flows like the moon
while we’re wandering on the heath.
Oh, that fickle changing loon
with us playing underneath!

As we head off it occurs to me,
there’s still time to forgive.
Like in King Lear Act 5 Scene 3...
“So we’ll live...

We are telling different tales;
secrets falling from our lips.
When our eyes are free from scales,
we can see what was eclipsed.

“So, we’ll pray, and sing,
and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies,
And take upon us the mystery of things,
as if we were God's spies.”

DREAM UNSPOKEN

Driving in my car today, trying to find some color
in a world gone gray. I heard an old song,
made me leap inside; I thought of you and
I laughed, and then I cried.

I remember, I remember
the twinkle in your eye, the fire in my heart.
A bond of understanding that can't be torn apart.

Remember a time when your lungs filled with song?
It was a new sensation...you knew that you belonged!

I remember, I remember,
a dream unspoken by us all,
a love that broke down every wall.
I remember, I remember it all.

It seems so easy to forget
the splendor of a single sunset,
the importance and the beauty of friendship.
It keeps us alive. We can never let it slip.

I remember, I remember,
photographs and phone calls,
visits and the letters,
help repaint the pictures
which over time have weathered.

I sing to you now of who we were then,
all that we are and what we’ll be
when we meet again... (i remember....)

A WORLD OF PEACE

Sometimes I am afraid of change.
I want things just to stay the same.
I think that we’re moving too fast
when we say forgive the past.

There’s so much to learn
from each other;
we can only make it together.
I’ll give you smile; a smile is for giving.
Now is the time for living.

A world of peace, war will cease.
I can see you are me in disguise.
Let me open up my eyes.
A world of peace, war will cease.
I can see you are me in disguise.
Let me wipe the tears from your eyes.

Sometimes, I think that there’s a way,
only one way to play the game.
Holding onto the dark of night,
trying to hold back the incoming light.
There’s so much to learn from each other.
We can only make it together.
I’ll give you a smile; a smile is forgiving.
Now is the time for living...

We can only make it together.
We can only make it ...a world of peace...

Sometimes I am afraid of change.
I want things just to stay the same.
But what if peace could come at last,
if we chose to forgive the past?

THE GREAT CONSTELLATION

For Madmen Only (Inspired by Hermann Hesse / Steppenwolf)

“If I had the pieces in my pocket and
I could change my life, would I change my life?”

Harry Haller and Hermann Hesse sat down
in Hermann’s mind to play a game of chess.
Harry did the foxtrot while Hermann made his move
and spoke about Siddhartha
and the need for solitude, inside.

Harry is half-wolf and with his queen
denies the bishop access to the castle,
which is where he keeps his pride.
“I will take your queen but then I’ll be your pawn.
Cheer up, Harry; sing a madman’s song tonight!”

“You are the Great Constellation!
Not just one soul in isolation.”

Your King is in check, and your life is a wreck.

Leave the razor and blaze a new trail.

Harry loves the knight and is seeking second sight.

“Don’t be so worried that your life is going to fail.

Listen to life’s music on the radio.

This sadness is a tyrant you can overthrow.” ...

“Laugh with the immortals, overcome the hurdles!
Handel is disfigured by the radio
but it doesn’t bring him down.
You know genius isn’t tarnished by technology.
Play this little game with me, you’ll see.
Listen to life’s music on the radio.
This sadness is a tyrant we can overthrow.”...

A sky full of souls, you play all the roles.”
You are the great constellation!
“I have the pieces in my pocket. I can change my life.”

CHILD IN SPACE

We are all part of a child in space.
One body, one heart, one race.
We are all atoms dancing face to face,
and the bond that we can’t see between us,
keeps us in this place.

While the left hand wrestles with the right,
the belly goes hungry, eyes shut tight.
If I could reach across the great divide,
our tears would become nourishment
and heal us from inside.

And the darkness would fade...
if I could hasten the day.

We are all part of a child in space.
One body, one heart, one race.
We are all atoms dancing face to face,
and the bond that we can see between us,
keeps us in this place.
One body, one heart, one race.

RELIEF

I was empty, I was tired.
I was drowning there in grief.
But I know If I had to hate you,
I would never know relief.
You silenced every mother singing,
“Safe from harm.”
Sisters, friends and brothers,
they were stolen from our arms.
Now, we are lights cast into darkness.
We are hope from love’s lost strength.
But I know I must have hope for you.
I must believe we all can change.
I must let Mercy lead the way.

Laugh With Me

I used to think that life was just a race to reach a point called win;
to be happy in the end, but the point is to begin.
Every day’s a lifetime, another chance to choose
how I’ll be remembered; as a blessing or the blues.

What I have to give inside becomes the portion that I’ll keep.
The love that I receive becomes the harvest that I’ll reap.
Let me be remembered for something true.
Not for what I am alone, but for who I am with you.

Laugh with me and life bursts open into Spring.
Sing with me and see what harmony we’re bringing.
Hold my hand and I’ll lead you to a quiet stream.
Together we will understand the meaning of this dream...the meaning of this.

Without you I’m a shadow dancing in the frame of time,
a scribbled line of prose but with you, an endless rhyme.
Every day’s a lifetime, another chance to choose
how I’ll be remembered; as a blessing or the blues...

A book, a song, a story, without love there’s no glory.
What is the center of it all? ...

Album: My Friend Hafiz by The Levins
Music: Ira Scott Levin & Julia Bordenaro Levin
Lyrics: Hafiz/Ladinsky/Levin © 2013
- inspired by the poetry of Hafiz of Shiraz as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky

I am one of many, I’m not one alone.
When I sing from the center of my soul
I shine like a diamond in the old king’s throne. Ah –ha! Hey, hey!
I shine like a diamond in the old king’s throne.

The small minded man locks up everyone he knows
But the sage ducks his head when the moon is low.
And all night long he’s dropping keys,
To the beautiful prisoners at his knees.
All those beautiful rowdy prisoners must be freed!

Doubt came along and captured me
he stuck me in a trunk at the bottom of the sea.
The wise old sage had mercy on me
and his words of wisdom set me free.
All those beautiful words of wisdom set me free. Chorus

The king takes a diamond off his throne
and he sticks it in the ground where the seeds are sown
and up from the ground comes a groove of trees
sprouting words to the wise in the shape of keys.

The poet and the wise man climbing trees
so they can sing us songs like these. Chorus
END: Ah-ha, hey, hey- Shine like a diamond in the old king’s throne!

The Sun Never Says

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth: “
You owe me!”, “You owe me!”
Look what you can do with a love like that… I
t lights up the whole sky – hi hi- hi hi – hi hiiii

Chorus -

I give to you and you give to me, it raises us up and allows us to see
When I give to you and you give too, then it frees me
―I can see me and you.

Even after all this time, the river never says to the sea,
“You owe me!”, “You owe me!”
Look what you can do with a love like that…
It covers the whole earth with life- hi hi- hi hi- hi hiii Chorus

Bridge: When I give then I get so much more than I give
when I give then I get so much more. (4x)

Look what you can do with a love like this . . .
it covers the whole sky with bliss Hi hi- hi hi- hi hiiii
Chorus + And it frees me, I can see me and you.
Even after all this time…

Your Mother and My Mother

We’re all renting rooms in this house,
fear is the cheapest one here.
I’d like to see you in a room in this house,
one with a little more cheer.
For I know the Inn Keeper who runs this galaxy,
happy to help you with one word from me.
Tonight get some rest and let your heart mend,
sing me tomorrow, we’ll go see my friend

Chorus:

For your mother and my mother
are good friends who care for each other
Your heart and my heart
belonged to each other right here from the start.
Old, old friends, very, very old friends

We’re all renting rooms in this house,
joy is the finest one here.
We can explore all the rooms in this house,
with a view that is forever clear.

For I know the Inn Keeper who runs this galaxy,
the drinks will be flowing tonight and they’re free.

To leave a tip of a generous size
—let love and playfulness show in your eyes.

END: Send that thought up with your heart wide open,
somewhere, something good will happen (2x)

When the violin can begin to forgive the past
- it starts singing.When the violin can begin to stop worrying
what the future will bring - it starts laughing.

Lean down and comb me into your hair.
Let me know, let me know you are there.

When the violin, can begin
to forgive all the wounds
that the others are bringing - it starts singing:
Yi li yi li li li li- Yi li li li li li li
When the violin can begin

A Root In Each Act and Creature (Sun’s Eyes)
Hafiz/Ladinsky/ Levin © 2013

Sun’s eyes are painting fields again.
Disguised eyelashes sweep the land.
Embraced by sunlight’s masquerade,
the Earth’s a canvas on parade.

Chorus -
If just a little clay and water in a bowl
reveals these wonders to behold.
What new delights will soon unfold?
The endless petals of the soul.

One heart resides in everything
Renew your body, hear it sing.
Each act and creature we perceive
has roots in one who can conceive. Chorus -

The endless petals of the soul (3x)

Sun’s eyes are painting fields again.
Disguised eyelashes sweep the land.
Illuminated scents and sounds
Exquisite whirling forms abound. Chorus –

The endless petals of the soul (3x)
END: Sun’s eyes are painting fields again.

Like a Life-Giving Sun
Hafiz/Ladinsky/Levin © 2013

You could be, you could be a Wild Horseman
Help to free, help to free us all from the state that we're in…
What if you and love become sweet lovers?
What if you and prayer become one?
It’s naïve to believe we’re not in battle.

And I grieve, as the brave are falling like cattle.
Fall in pain, gone insane
Oh, the brave are falling like rain.
You could be, you could be a victorious horseman.
And carry your heart through this world. Free yourself and this world.
Carry your heart through this world like a life giving sun.

What if you and love became sweet lovers?
What if you and love became one?
So below as above Sweet love

Don’t sit grieving. Go where you’re needed
Carry your heart through this world like a life giving sun.
You could be, you could be a great horseman.
Carry your heart through this world. (Help to) free yourself and this world
Carry your heart through this world like a life giving sun.

What if you and love became sweet lovers?
What if you and love became one?

Act Great
Hafiz/Ladinsky/Levin © 2013

What is the key to unlock your mind to untie the knot of suffering blind?
What is the secret to silence the madness?
That tramples the landscape, the heart’s tender bliss?
That imprisons the eye with all its denied, from the cold golden idol to the forbidden kiss?

Chorus:
Act great! Act great! Act great! Act —great!
Whatever life hands you, you don’t have to wait.
Act great! Act great! Act great! Act —great!
One act of kindness can overcome fate.
...Always act great my dear. Act great!

What is the cure to this poisoned well?
Where is the ladder set here when we fell?
What is now sacred and how shall I care?
What can I cling to as true as my true love’s hair?

My Friend Hafiz he whispers two words
Two little words with the beauty of birds
with the beauty of emeralds of angels and light.
two words that restored me and gave my eyes sight.
Chorus
Benevolent thought, benevolent sound,
benevolent movement around and around (2x)

Always act great my dears. Always act great my dear.
Always act great my dears. Act great!

Forgive the Dream
Hafiz/Ladinsky/Levin © 2013

I see your sky is winter and know your wounds that will not heal
You long for the warmth of a perfect one’s circle
Only complete when love becomes real. –when love becomes real.

Your hands and feet and heart are wise
Still the tears they sting your eyes
Allow yourself to view the brow that allows this universe to rise
this universe to rise this universe to rise

Chorus:

Are you still listening to that old alley song?

It brings you such pain and it goes on far too long.

Train your ears to hear this gentle stream

until you can forgive —forgive this dream.

We can drink wine from a gourd that I hollowed in my house.

We can eat cheese from a calf that I raised up by myself.

We can feast upon this truth throughout the night

We can break bread on a carpet made of light. Chorus

A saint is an Earth in eternal spring. Hafiz is a poet whose song I sing

Inside the veins of a petal of a redbud tree are hidden worlds where he may be.

I see your sky is winter —forgive this dream.

Know your wounds will finally heal —forgive this dream. And become real.

I see your sky is winter —Oh, forgive this dream.

Wounds of love will finally heal —forgive this dream. And become real.

A saint is an Earth in eternal spring. Hafiz is a poet whose song I sing

Inside the veins of a petal of a redbud tree are hidden worlds where he may be.

Forgive this dream ―and become real. Forgive this dream ―and become real.

Every Child

Every child has known God. That’s quite a claim.

For they don’t know God

as a ‘God of Names’ as a ‘God of Don’ts’ a ‘God of Shame,’

of stormy moods or any strange behavior. Not a king or a queen, a giant, tyrant or savior.

But every child knows God. Not as someone you can see,

But the God who only knows four words:

Come Dance with me! Come Dance with me!

Come Dance! Come Dance! Come Dance! 2x

END: —with me. Oh, Come Dance with me!

The first chord is an open one on the 3rd and 4th strings 3rd string on fret 9 and the 4th string on fret 11.

The second chord is a minor interval on the 10th and 11th fret on the 2nd and 3rd strings.

the 3rd chord is an open E 5.

Troubled

Troubled? Stay with me I’m not. Lonely? Play with me.

I’ve got two ancient caves behind my eyes where true love lies.

Chorus:

Write them all down all your worries and your fears
even from a thousand yearsI will lean into today,
and the flame inside my heart will burn them all away.

Frightened? Be with me ―and cope.
Weary? Dance with me —there’s hope.
“If I wrote my troubles down, they would wind this earth around.”

Offer them in prayer and in a flash
―they’re holy ash, incense in the air-
And we’ll rise and we’ll rise until all the earth and sky
disappear with your fear
And we’ll sing and be the space containing everything. Chorus

Old Sweet Beggar

Once I was envied as having what seemed to be all you could want to possess

People revered me, Powerful feared me, but soon all I wanted was less.

I gave up privilege, feathers of vanity

Begging for change and filled with desire to be:

Kindness, humility, peace, and tranquility - Kindness, humility, peace, and tranquility

Chorus:

Love turned me into a sweet old beggar.

Love itself fell into my bowl

I rose from the ditch, infinitely rich

All that is left is one goal –one goal, -one goal . . .

All I want to do is empty my emerald filled pockets on this tear stained world for you.

—empty my emerald filled pockets on this tear stained world for you

Chorus - END: For you, for you, for you. (2x) This love, this love, this love. (3x)

The Chorus in the Eye

Your eye has a melody we want to hear.

The sun and moon will gladly wear robes and sway like children at play;

when the Pir directs light, when the saint conducts sight.

Slipping magic into sounds, won’t you pour them in the ground?

into the earth’s bruised ear. Can’t you hear?

Mashuq, Mashuq ―Mashuq! Sweetheart, Sweetheart, you are my counterpart.

Hafiz won’t you whisper of luminous bliss

that kisses each traveller through time

won’t you tell all the world of nature sublime?

“Yes” (he says,) “I will.” (Listen,) he is whispering still.

Slipping magic into sounds, won’t you pour them in the ground?

of the earth’s bruised ear. Can’t you hear?

Mashuq, Mashuq ―Mashuq! Sweetheart, Sweetheart, you are my counterpart.

Love is royalty moving ceaselessly. The chorus in the heart needs to sing

like the tuned clay drum humming all day long to everything:

Mashuq, Mashuq ―Mashuq! Mashuq, Mashuq ―Mashuq! Mashuq! Mashuq!

From The Gift Poems by Hafiz as rendered by Daniel Ladinsky – Penguin Compass books

ALBUM: Barely Contained

Barely Contained - Lyrics & Music- Ira and Julia Levin

My thoughts and my body are not me.

I can play them both like a violin.

Their melody reminds me of who I am and where I’ve been.

I once saw a fish in a tall tree, when she saw me she began to grin

She said, “Your melody reminds me, there’s water in air” and she started to swim.

Chorus:

I’m barely contained, you can’t buy how I feel.

I give it away, I’m a bright summer’s day with the

Colors of Fall.

I’m all things at once, and I’m nothing at all.

I used to think power was outside, and that strength was just a muscle show.

Strength funnels through from the inside.

I can bench press the world by just letting go.

I once saw a rose in an old book, when she saw me she began to grin.

She said, “Your melody reminds me of who I am and where I’ve been.”

I’m barely contained, you can’t buy how I feel.

I give it away, I’m a bright summer’s day with the

Colors of Fall.

I’m all things at once, and I’m nothing at all.

Breathing is more than a pastime, it’s a fine line

And you can’t hold on.

Laughing is healing and loving is really a wind chime;

It’s a song.

Chorus. I’m all things at once and I’m nothing at all.

I’m all things at once and I’m nothing.

I’m all things at once…

My thoughts and my body are not me.

I can play them both like a violin.

Their melody reminds me of who I am and where I’ve been.

Blue skies

Smiling at me

Nothing but blue skies

Do I see

Bluebirds

Singing a song

Nothing but bluebirds

All day long

Never saw the sun shining so bright

Never saw things going so right

Noticing the days hurrying by

When you're in love, my how they fly

Blue days

All of them gone

Nothing but blue skies

From now on

Coffee my Love- Lyrics & Music- Ira and Julia Levin

I’d like to see you, early in the morning.

I like to hold out, hold out till noon.

I might go crazy, crazy if I see you.

I might go crazy if I see you too soon.

But it’s a love affair, when your perfume’s in the air

I love this love affair, you perk me up! Oh!

Pre-chorus:

Coffee, you’re my cure-all, you’re my panacea paramour.

An ounce of hope in every cup, you pick me up from shore to shore.

If I never had another sip from today, I would love you – ever more.

Chorus: Coffee my love, black as the night.

You make me- bright as the sun- ar-o-matic delight!

If I’m on the run or at my leisure, it’s a pleasure to be together.

It’s a pleasure to be together. Do- doo do dooo. Do Do Do Dooo Do Doo Dooo.

When we meet at your house, atmosphere is everything.

Linger over Whitman while the songwriter sings.

At the diner in a booth, at a counter in Deluth,

Local history as decure, beehive waitress: Want some more?

At the café, you and I will steal away. Grab a quick bite, catch up with friends,

Find time to write for hours on end…Oh.. Pre-chorus/Chorus but after… ‘It’s a pleasure to be together’ the 2^nd time straight into:

Viennese is such a tease, Costa Rica love to see you; Fly to Paris- sit outside, Go to

Venice- take a ride, why Rome? When we can make our own at home?

Pre-chorus/ Chorus

It’s a pleasure to be together.

Not as Dark as it Seems -Lyrics and Music: Ira Levin & Julia Levin

Were we all aware that every dish was made with care?

A symphonic rendezvous, and when the time is through

you’re doing dishes after midnight.

It’s not an unfamiliar sight.

And your cup of coffee

says: “Do they ever think of me?”

It’s not as dark as it seems

Just put in some cream,

and add some sweet memories

It’s not as dark as it seems.

Keeping busy all the time

To scale this mountain that you climb;

You’ve got a yearning and a longing there that’s burning.

Burning late into the night, it’s not an unfamiliar sight.

And your coffee cup

says: “I’m full but fill me up.”

It’s not as dark as it seems

Just put in some cream

and add some sweet memories

It’s not as dark as it seems Yi di di di…yi di didi

The bottom’s an opportunity to see what you are made of

and your own divinity.

A cup that’s made of clay is bound to hit the ground one day,

but don’t let that bring you down.

All that’s lost is found.

We’ll meet one day at eternity’s café.

It’s not as dark as it seems

Just put in some cream

and add some sweet memories

It’s not as dark as it seems. Yi di di di…yi di didi

Time To Go- Lyrics & Music- Ira & Julia Levin

It’s all one big day. The sun is a maypole and we are winding away.

How many moments, reflected like diamonds, gather around you

to light up your way?

Time to go. Time to go on our way.

Laughter that rises up from the center.

Tears that are taken away to the sea.

A house without walls, open to enter.

That is the time that you spend with me.

Time to go. Time to go on our way.

Raise your glass. Raise up your hope.

Raise your courage up high.

All that we share will not be forgotten.

We’ll see you again by and by.

Time to go. Time to go on our way.

Ale Brider – The Levins’ version

We are all together and we sing and dance forever

Ale brider, ale shvester, michbucha!

(We are all brothers, we are all sisters- family!)

When we sing we’re not divided. When we dance we are delighted-

Ale Shvester, ale brider, mishbucha!

(We are all brothers, we are all sisters- family!)

Un mir zinen ale brider- un mir zingen frelich lider

(We sing happy songs as brothers. We stick together like nobody else does!)

Ale shvester, ale brider- mishbucha!

(We are all brothers, we are all sisters- family!)

Ya la li li li li li li li – yay li li

Ya la li li li li li li li

Ya la li li li li li li li – yay li li

Oy, Oy, oy, OY, oy yoy yoy, yoy yoy!

La la la la…

Because we are a family, we treat each other joyously

Forgetting all our quarrels and our cares.

No matter what we have we share and when we sing we care

For one another, sister brother, mishbucha! (Family)

Un mir halten zeekin anum

Azelkis is nito bi canum

(We are all united whether we are many of few and we love each other.)

Ale brider, ale shvester- Mischbucha!

(We are all brothers, we are all sisters- family!)

Ya la li li li li li li li – yay li li

Ya la li li li li li li li

Ya la li li li li li li li – yay li li

Oy, Oy, oy, OY, oy yoy yoy, yoy yoy!