Sheet music for this new melody and words of explanation by Deborah Sacks Mintz will be included in Hadar's 5782 Pesach Reader. Download a copy here: https://www.hadar.org/torah-resource/pesach-reader-5782

Text: Vayehi Bachatzi HaLayla - Pesach piyyut by Yannai (6th Century)
Melody: Deborah Sacks Mintz

Singers:
Deborah Sacks Mintz
Chava Mirel
Joey Weisenberg

Recorded November 2021 at the Germantown Jewish Centre
Mastered by Don Godwin

Karev Yom - Deborah Sacks Mintz

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Dedicated to HH

This song began in 2011 and has changed its melody and lyrics somewhat since then. I'm usually more of a singer-songwriter. This one is more pop.
What hasn't changed over the years is the longing for people to live without war.
It's not that everyone loves me, or that I love everyone. Nevertheless, I'm not constantly threatened or beaten by people in my personal life just because I think and live differently.
And I personally have no desire to harass or even kill people just because I don't share their interests or outlook on life. So, on the level down here, almost everyone gets along without murder and manslaughter.
That should be possible on the higher level too, right?
Or not, since other interests prevail there?
When I stay awake and see where death and destruction are currently raging everywhere,
I don't really believe the message of my own lyrics.
It's just an illusion, fantastic nonsense.
But I allow myself to dream. The alternative would be despair.
And I have no desire for that any more than I have for war.

Dieses Lied nahm seine Anfänge 2011 und hat Melodie und Text seitdem etwas verändert. Sonst bin ich ja mehr so Liedermacher-mäßig unterwegs. Hier ist es doch eher Pop.
Was sich in den vielen Jahren nicht verändert hat, ist die Sehnsucht, dass Menschen ohne Krieg leben.
Es ist nicht so, dass mich alle Menschen lieben oder dass ich alle Menschen liebe.
Dennoch werde ich im persönlichen Bereich nicht ständig von Menschen bedroht oder geschlagen, nur weil ich anders denke und lebe. Und ich selbst habe auch keine Lust Menschen zu bedrängen oder gar zu töten, nur weil ich nicht ihre Interessen oder Lebensansichten teile.
Also auf der Ebene hier unten klappt es doch fast mit allen Menschen ohne Mord und Totschlag.
So sollte es doch auch der höheren Ebene möglich sein.
Oder nicht, da dort andere Interessen herrschen?
Wenn ich wach bleibe und sehe, wo gegenwärtig überall Tod und Zerstörung wüten, glaube ich selbst nicht so recht an die Botschaft des eigenen Textes.
Ist doch nur Illusion, fantastische Spinnerei.
Aber ich gestatte es mir zu träumen. Die Alternative wäre Verzweiflung.
Und darauf habe ich genauso wenig Lust wie auf Krieg.


Immer wieder danke Frank, für Deine Geduld, sich mit einem Laien die Aufnahmesessions um die Ohren zu hauen und dann noch was ganz Ordentliches daraus zu machen.
Thank you again and again, Frank, for your patience in going through the recording sessions with a complete amateur and then making something really decent out of it.

Lyrics proofreading in English my dear friend and musician Sabine Weber 


You and me and one

1.
Little girl, pretty springtime’s bud
Her whole life is warm and bright, she’s so fresh and free
Little girl in a little world
Playing wonderful games and she lives in harmony

Ref.: 
You and me and one are three
Late springtime not too late to start the game
Not too late to calm the storm of violence
For the innocent to be released

Fife, six, seven, earth and heaven
Many weak hearts make a brave heart that can reach the aim
Little steps of love become the biggest march
With all people we can live in………….peace?

2.
Lady young, many years are gone
Wakes up painfully in a cruel world’s reality
And she recognizes all of mankind’s works
But she takes the chance of planting an apple tree

Ref.: 
You and me and one are three
Late springtime not too late to start the game
Not too late to calm the storm of violence
For the innocent to be released
Fife, six, seven, earth and heaven
Many weak hearts make a brave heart that can reach the aim
Little steps of love become the biggest march
Little steps of love become the biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest….
March
Many weak hearts make a brave heart that can reach the aim
Little steps of love become the biggest march, little steps of love…..
With all people…., with all people…..
We can live in…….., live in……….,
Live in peace.

You and me and one

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