Songs of Siberian Estonians | At a Jewish market in a Tartumaa town

II 25 At a Jewish market in a Tartumaa town

Leonora Haller, Emilie Illak, Olga Parts, Elfriede Reisman, Liidia Rist and Rosalie Taits (1995)

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Tartumaa linnas juudituru peal
kasvasin ma üles õlle-viinaga.
Kui neiu minnu pahandas,
ma tiia, mis ma teen –
ma panen kaerakotti ja viin ta veskile.
Jahvatan ta jahuks, söödan siale,
siast saan ma liha, neiust midagi^*.

^* siast saan ma liha, naisest midagi

A boy grows up in Tartu on beer and vodka. When a girl upsets him, he threatens to put the girl in a bag of oats, take her to the mill, grind her into flour, and feed her to his pig. The pig is good for meat, but she is no good at all.

ERA, DAT 24 (24) < Omski obl, Okonešnikovo raj, Zolotaja Niva k – I. Kaimer, A. Korb 1995 < Leonora Haller (Sarap), snd 1922; Emilie (Leena) Illak (Lepik), snd 1922; Olga Parts, snd 1926; Elfriede Reisman (Haller), snd 1925; Liidia Rist, snd 1925; Rosalie (Roosi) Taits (Leib), snd 1928.

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