Τετάρτη 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - The Weavers - (Lyrics)

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  1. "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" είναι ένα τραγούδι, που γράφτηκε στα Εβραϊκά από τον Issachar Miron (Stefan Michrovsky), ένας Πολωνός μετανάστης στην τότε Βρετανική Εντολή της Παλαιστίνης που είναι τώρα το Ισραήλ και Jehiel Hagges (Yechiel Chagiz).


    Miron, born in 1919, left Poland at the age of 19, thus avoiding the Holocaust. In 1941, while serving in the Jewish Brigade of the British forces, he composed the melody for lyrics written by Chagiz. The song became popular in Palestine and was played on the Israeli radio.

    Julius Grossman, who did not know who composed the song, wrote the so-called third part of 'Tzena' about November 1946. Gordon Jenkins made an arrangement of the song for The Weavers, who sang it with Jenkins' orchestra as backing. The Jenkins/Weavers version, released by Decca Records under catalog number 27077, was one side of a two-sided hit, reaching #2 on the Billboard magazine charts while the flip side, "Goodnight Irene," reached #1.

    Cromwell Music Inc., a subsidiary of Richmond/TRO, claimed the rights to the song, and had licensed the Decca release. They alleged the music to have been composed by a person named Spencer Ross, though in reality this was a fictitious persona constructed to hide the melody's true authorship. Mills Music, Inc., Miron's publisher, sued Cromwell (TRO) and won. The presiding judge also dismissed Cromwell's claim that the melody was based on a traditional folk song and was thus in the public domain.

    Arounds the 80's, Israeli folk star Ron (Ran) Eliran recorded the song along with 14 more songs by Miron to make a CD together called, Sing to Me Eretz Yisrael.

    The original English lyric, written by Mitchell Parish, was greatly altered in the version recorded by The Weavers. Other charting versions were recorded by Vic Damone and Mitch Miller's Orchestra.
    [edit] Lyrics

    צאנה צאנה צאנה צאנה הבנות וראינה חיילים במושבה

    אל נא אל נא אל נא אל נא אל נא תתחבאנה מבן חייל איש צבא

    Go out, go out, go out girls and see soldiers in the moshava (settlement).

    Do not, do not, do not hide yourself away from a virtuous man [a pun on the word for "soldier"], an army man.

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