The Barry Sisters - Yoshke Furt Avek (Yoshke is Leaving)

Oy, oy, oy, oy Yoshke furt avek
Noch a sho un noch a sho
Bange shoin avek…

Written to a rollicking tune by singer, actor and vaudeville performer Aaron Lebedeff during the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War, “Yoshke Fort Avek” depicts a scene at a railroad station where Yoshke, who has been drafted into the czarist army, is about to board a train for boot camp. The lyrics consist of alternating stanzas: one spoken by a pregnant young wife or girlfriend, the next by Yoshke.
“Don’t buy me any trinkets,
don’t try making me look nice,
Buy yourself a pair of boots,
you’re going off to fight,”
says the wife or girlfriend, to which Yoshke replies:
“Don’t you fret and don’t you weep, it’s all foolery,
The Czar won’t have a better man than me in his army.”
Each stanza is followed by the refrain:
Oy, oy, oy, Yoshke fort avek,
Nokh a kush un nokh a kush, der poyezd geyt avek
“Oy, oy, oy, Yoshke’s on his way
One more kiss, and one more kiss, the train is on its way.”

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