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The Songs
In If
Cows Could Fly, Allan has reconstructed the
fragmented memories of his family in diaspora, and
interspersed them with a wide range of musical
styles Yiddish songs, country-and-western
ballads, as well as Klezmer and Ottawa Valley
fiddle tunes.
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Act One Song List (full 2008 two-act
production version)
Misty Muldoon/Scrambled Eggs by Reg
Hill
Shlof Mayn Kind words by Sholem Aleichem, music by David
Kovanovsky
Ruby's Freilach by Allan Merovitz
Der Gasn Nigun (The Street Tune) traditional
Der Naivelt Waltz Allan Merovitz
Terkisher Yale V'yove Tantz traditional
My Father's Nigun traditional
Chosn Kalle Mazel Tov traditional and Allan Merovitz
Yamlied (Song of the Sea) music M. Shneyer, Hebrew words by
poet Judah ha-Levi, translated into Yiddish by Chaim Nachman
Bialik
Strathspey / Reel (for Canso)
A Purim Lid folk song
Dos Lid Fun Der Ayznban (The Train Song) folk song
Di Ban Poem Allan Merovitz
Mein Ruhe Platz Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923)
Keshenever Pogrom folk song
Abi Gezunt lyrics by Molly Picon, music by Abraham
Ellstein
Dire Gelt folk song
Odessa Bulgarish traditional
Act Two Song List (full 2008 two-act
production version)
Yoshke Fort Avek traditional
Arum dem Fayer (Around the Fire) folk song
Misty Muldoon (reprise) by Reg Hill
A Nakht in Gan Eydn traditional
Der Feter Elye words Moyshe Kulbak
Az Der Rebbe Tantzt folk song
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon by J. Jacobs, S. Secunda
In a Little Shack up the Pontiac by Mac Beattie
La Bastringue Quebec folk tune
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Kern / Harbach
My Father's Nigun (reprise) traditional
A cowgirl, a fire and a song by Allan Merovitz
Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen (Raisins and Almonds) by Abraham
Goldfaden (1840-1906)
Arum dem Fayer (reprise) folk song
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