Of things I should be thankful for,
I've had a goodly share;
And as I sit here in the comfort,
Of a cozy chair;
My fancy takes me to a humble,
East-side tenement;
Three flights up in the rear to where
my childhood days were spent.
It wasn't much like paradise,
But mid the dirt and all;
There sat the sweetest angel,
One that I fondly callwowowowowo
My Yddishe mamme
I need her more than ever now
My Yddishe mamme
I love to kiss that wrinkled brow
We'd haved to tumble, when a hatte nochmal sehn
er weist nicht wie treurig,
wie traurig und bitter 't ist
when together weg zu gehen
How few were, pleasures
She never cared for fashion styles
Her jewels and treasures
She found them in her babys smiles
Oh I know that I owe, what I am today
To that dear little lady so old and gray
To that wonderful Yddishe maaaaamme
mamme,mamme,mamme mine
My Yddishe mamme,
Sie machts noch schicks die ganze tag
My Yddishe mamme,
I may be bitter when she felt
We'd have to don't go, when a hatte nochmal sehn
der weist nicht wie traurig,
wie traurig und bitter est ist
when together weg zu gehen
Was so teuer, had Sie gelaffen for a gig
ich habe nie teuer, this is gewist uns to sehn
Oj we click little reich is a wedgewoods at
we a shememan tolle geschenkt zu Got
But a dont tiske Yiddische maaaaamme,
mamma mamma mamma mammamamamamaaaaaaa.
I've had a goodly share;
And as I sit here in the comfort,
Of a cozy chair;
My fancy takes me to a humble,
East-side tenement;
Three flights up in the rear to where
my childhood days were spent.
It wasn't much like paradise,
But mid the dirt and all;
There sat the sweetest angel,
One that I fondly callwowowowowo
My Yddishe mamme
I need her more than ever now
My Yddishe mamme
I love to kiss that wrinkled brow
We'd haved to tumble, when a hatte nochmal sehn
er weist nicht wie treurig,
wie traurig und bitter 't ist
when together weg zu gehen
How few were, pleasures
She never cared for fashion styles
Her jewels and treasures
She found them in her babys smiles
Oh I know that I owe, what I am today
To that dear little lady so old and gray
To that wonderful Yddishe maaaaamme
mamme,mamme,mamme mine
My Yddishe mamme,
Sie machts noch schicks die ganze tag
My Yddishe mamme,
I may be bitter when she felt
We'd have to don't go, when a hatte nochmal sehn
der weist nicht wie traurig,
wie traurig und bitter est ist
when together weg zu gehen
Was so teuer, had Sie gelaffen for a gig
ich habe nie teuer, this is gewist uns to sehn
Oj we click little reich is a wedgewoods at
we a shememan tolle geschenkt zu Got
But a dont tiske Yiddische maaaaamme,
mamma mamma mamma mammamamamamaaaaaaa.