Der Rebbe Elimelech is a Yiddish song published in 1927 by the communist satirist Moyshe Nadir and loosely based on the song Old King Cole.

Lyrics and translation

(first verse)

Yiddish
Yiddish lyrics:

English translation

When Rabbi Elimelekh

Became happy,

(Became happy, Elimelekh)

He took off his tefillin

And he put on his glasses

And he sent for his two fiddlers.

And the fiddling fiddlers

Fiddlingly fiddled!

Oh, they fiddlingly fiddled, they did!

References

Yiddish-language songs
1927 songs