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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.

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