Ale vasserlech (All the waters flow away) for alto recorder and guitar by Traditional Alto Recorder - Digital Sheet Music

Instrumental arrangement of a Yiddish folk song.The sound sample is an electronic preview.The pdf file contains score and parts.Lyrics of the original folksong (English translation follows)Ale vasserlech flisn avek,di gribelech blaybn leydik.  Nito aza mentsh oyf gor der velt,vos zol farsteyn mayn veytik.Di yorelech tsien, di yorelech flien,di tsayt geyt avek vi roych,un az ich dermon zich on dir, mayn zis lebn,geyt mir oys der ko'ech.Un aza meydele shpilt a libe, shpilt in ir alle farbnun az zi shpilt ir libe nit oys,ken zi cholile noch shtarbn.Un az de tepelech trinkenen oysblaybn zey ale leydikun az a meydele firt ir libe nit oysvert zi farfalln oyf eybik.All the waters flow awayThe little ditches remain dryThere is nobody on this whole earthwho can understand my painThe years drag on, the years fleeTime goes away like smokeand when I think of you, my sweet lifeI lose my strengthAnd when a young girl plays at loveall the colours play in herand if she doesn't play her love for realshe can - G*d forbid - still die.And when the water jars run outthey all remain dryand when a young girl doesn't play her love for realshe will pine away for ever.