Rubin Doctor [Reuben Stollar] (1878-1946)

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[78RPM]
Chicken (Rubin Doctor) Anna Hoffman Victor 73431-B 1922
Die Greene Moid (Rubin Doctor - Leo Daniderf) Nina Sheikevitz Columbia 5090 1929
Ikh Benk Nokh Mayn Shtetele (Rubin Doctor) Simon Paskal Brunswick 50001 B 1920
Ikh Bin A Border Bay Mayn Vayb (Rubin Doctor) Jacob Jacobs Victor 73431-A 1922
Mentshlekhkayt Iz Tayerer Fun Gelt (Rubin Doctor) William Schwartz Victor 72395-A 1918
Oy, Oy, Di Vayber (Rubin Doctor) Moshe Burstin Clausophon 788 (EA 75X) 1928
Oy, Oy, Di Vayber (Rubin Doctor) William Schwartz Columbia E4744 1920
Peisach Zeit (Rubin Doctor) Aaron Lebedeff Vocalion 14521 B 1923

 

 

[33RPM]
Peisach Zeit (Rubin Doctor) Aaron Lebedeff The Greater Recording GRC 46 1964

 

 

 

I’m a Boarder at My Wife’s

ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb

Rubin Doctor

I’m a boarder at my wife’s.
Guys, it’s a sweet deal.
She attends to my every need.
When I come home, she doesn’t ask any questions.
I am a boarder at my wife’s.

I’m single once again,
single like a young boy.
I’ve divorced my wife.
I thought about moving out,
I looked for a room to lodge,
but my wife persuaded me:

Why do you need to look for bargains
And be cramped in strange rooms,
And be alone and talk to the walls.
Stay here just like before.
Be a boarder now with me.
So like a boarder, I pay her rent.

I’m a boarder at my wife’s.
It’s so nice, so good.
Guys, it’s a sweet deal.
She attends to my every need.
When I come home, she doesn’t ask any questions.

I am a boarder at my wife’s.
It’s a pleasure;
I can get it all
as a stranger boarding at my wife’s.
I’m no greenhorn,
and every day, after dinner,
I lie down, just to pass the time.

Oh, earlier she used to curse me
and make a big hullabaloo,
Even when there was a stranger boarding in my house.
But ever since I became a boarder at her place,
she is so good to me.
It costs me little, and she loves me.
ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb,
oy, mener, iz dos a tayerer job.
zi atendet mikh mit ales,
ven ikh kum fregt zi keyn shayles.
ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb.

ikh bin shoyn vider single
single vi a yingl.
mit mayn vaybl hob ikh zikh geget.
gedenkt hob ikh tsu mufn
a room gezukht tsu shlofn
hot mayn vaybl mikh ibergeredt:

vos darfstu zukhn glikn,
in fremde rooms zikh shtikn,
un zayn aleyn un redn tsu di vent,
blayb do iber punkt vi frier
zay a boarder yetst bay mir.
vi a boarder tsol ikh ir di rent.

ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb,
ay voyl, ay gut, ay voyl
oy, mener, iz dos a tayerer job.
zi atendet mikh mit ales,
ven ikh kum fregt zi keyn shayles.
ikh bin a boarder bay mayn vayb.

es iz a fargenign,
ales ken ikh krign,
vi a fremdn boarder bay mayn vayb.
ikh bin gornit keyn griner,
un yedn tog nokh dinner
leyg ikh zikh tsu azoy tsum tsayt-fartrayb.

oy frier flegt zi mir sheltn
un iberkern veltn
gor mit a fremdn boarderin mayn shtub.
nor zayt ikh bin in board bay ir,
iz zi azoy gut tsu mir,
es kost mir bilik un zi hot mikh lib.
 

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