evodammer: My Yiddishe Momme

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MY YIDDISHE MOMME
(aka My Yiddishe Mame)
Lew Pollack / Jack Yellen
Recorded by: Stanley Black; Billy Daniels; Meir Finkelstein;
Connie Francis; Sándor Deki Lakatos; Issy Bonn; London Festival Orch.;
Shelly Manne; Neil Sedaka; Anne Shelton; Sophie Tucker; Jackie Wilson.

My yiddishe momme

Of things I should be thankful for I've had a goodly share
And as I sit here in the comfort of my cosy chair
My fancy takes me to a humble eastside tenement
three flights up in the rear to where my childhood days were spent
It wasn't much like Paradise but 'mid the dirt and all
There sat the sweetest angel, one that I fondly call..............

My yiddishe momme I need her more then ever now

My yiddishe momme I'd like to kiss that wrinkled brow

I long to hold her hands once more as in days gone by

and ask her to forgive me for things I did that made her cry

How few were her pleasures, she never cared for fashion's styles

Her jewels and treasures she found them in her baby's smiles

oh I know that I owe what I am today

to that dear little lady so old and gray

to that wonderful yiddishe momme of mine