Mark Zuckerman - Composer

Tum-balalayke

1994 SATB a cappella (CE) Get the Music Recording: Goldene Keyt Singers
(Traditional) A playful arrangement of the famous riddle song. Part of the ECS Mark Zuckerman Yiddish Choral Series.

Tum balalayke is a popular folksong where a young man poses a series of riddles to the girl he is courting:

Can you tell me what grows without rain, what yearns without tears, what burns forever? Silly boy, a stone can grow without rain, a heart can yearn without tears, and love can burn forever.