Track: 3. Zog Maran — 2:23

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Lyrics:

Zog maran, du khaver mayner,
Vu is greyt der seyder dayner?
In tifn heyl in a kheyder,
dort hob ikh gegreyt mayn seyder.

Zog maran mir vu bay vemen
Vestu vayseh matzos nemen?
In der heyl oyf got's barotn
Hobn mir dem teyg geknotn.

Zog maran vi vest zikh klign
A hagode vu tzu krign
In der heyl, in tife shpaltn
Hob ikh zi shoyn lang bahaltn.

Zog maran, vi vest zikh vern
Ven men vet dayn kol derhern
Ven der soyne vet mikh fangen
Vel ikh kempfn mit gesangen.

In an imagined dialog by a Yiddish poet, this is a great song of resistance on behalf of the Jews of Spain who were called Marranos. (The word means "pig" - representing that they had been forcibly converted to Christianity and were expected to eat the pork forbidden to Jews. Today they are called conversos. In the song, the Eastern European Jew asks the Marrano how he will celebrate Passover. He responds by saying that they celebrate it secretly in a cave where they have hidden their prayer books and bake their matzoth. "And what if the enemy hears you?" asks the Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jew. "If the enemy hears us we will drown the enemy with our singing."

Melody by Shmuel Bugatch

Lyrics by Abraham Reisen

Arranged by Linda Hirschhorn

Sung by Linda Hirschhorn, Judith-Kate Friedman and Ellen Robinson

ISRC: US-CGH-05-75084

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