Meeskite-Jack Gilford

[ti:Meeskite] [ar:Jack Gilford] [al:Cabaret (Original Broadway Cast Recording)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Meeskite - Jack Gilford [00:01.65]Now the only word you have to know to understand this [00:05.23]Little song is the Yiddish word meeskite [00:10.49]Meeskite means: ugly funny looking Meeskite means [00:15.91] [00:16.73]Meeskite meeskite [00:18.05] [00:18.60]Once upon a time there was a [00:20.09]Meeskite meeskite [00:21.80]Looking in the mirror [00:23.06]He would say [00:24.12]What an awful shock [00:26.08] [00:26.67]I've got a face [00:27.48]That could stop a clock [00:29.24] [00:30.26]Meeskite meeskite [00:31.94]Such a pity on him [00:33.07]He is a [00:33.71]Meeskite meeskite [00:35.36]God up in his Heaven left him out on a shaky limb [00:40.24]He put a meeskite on him [00:43.03] [00:43.66]Listen he grew up Even meeskites grow up [00:47.13] [00:48.65]And soon in the Heder (means Hebrew School) [00:51.92] [00:52.49]He sat beside this little girl [00:55.12] [00:55.71]And when he asked her her name [00:58.13]She replied: "I'm Pearl" [01:00.87] [01:03.58]He ran to the Zeiddah (that's grandfather) [01:06.13] [01:06.69]And said in the scratchy voice of his [01:10.25]You told me I was the homeliest [01:13.53]Well gramps you're wrong Pearl is [01:16.19] [01:17.20]Meeskite meeskite [01:18.83]No one ever saw a bigger [01:20.69]Meeskite meeskite [01:22.26]Ev'rywhere a flaw [01:23.29]And maybe that is the reason why [01:26.80]I'm going to love her until I die [01:29.59] [01:30.68]Meeskite meeskite [01:32.29]Oh it is a pleasure she's a [01:34.19]Meeskite meeskite [01:35.60]She's the one I'll treasure [01:37.11]For I thought there could never be [01:39.70] [01:40.37]A bigger meeskite than me [01:43.26] [01:43.85]Listen to what happened [01:45.62]And so they were married [01:47.54] [01:49.43]And in a year she turned and smiled [01:52.19] [01:52.76]I'm afraid I am going to have a child [01:57.62] [02:00.31]Nine months she carried [02:02.01] [02:03.73]Worrying how's that child would look [02:06.92]And all the cousins well worried too [02:10.30]But what a turn fate took [02:13.30] [02:15.72]Gorgeous gorgeous [02:17.88]They produced a baby that was [02:20.10]Gorgeous gorgeous [02:22.07]Crowding 'round the cradle [02:23.78]All relatives awed and wooed [02:27.82]He ought to pose for a baby-food [02:30.94] [02:32.07]Gorgeous gorgeous [02:33.90]Would I tell a lie [02:35.72]He's simply [02:36.27]Gorgeous gorgeous [02:37.62]Who'd have ever thought [02:39.17]That we will see such a flawless gem [02:43.19]Out of two meeskites like them [02:46.35] [02:47.26]Wait Wait This story has a moral All my stories have morals [02:52.71] [02:54.19]Moral moral [02:56.37]Yes indeed the story has a [02:58.53]Moral moral [03:00.62]"Thou you not a beauty [03:02.27]It is nevertheless quite true [03:05.71] [03:06.41]There may be beautiful things in you" [03:11.64] [03:13.40]Meeskite meeskite [03:15.58]Listen to a fable of the [03:17.90]Meeskite meeskite [03:19.83]Anyone responsible for loveliness large or small [03:31.73]Is not a meeskite at all