HERR SCHULTZ:

[spoken]

Now the only word you have to know to understand this

little song is the Yiddish word "meeskite".

Meeskite means: ugly, funny looking...

Meeskite means:



[singing]

Meeskite, meeskite

Once upon a time there was a

Meeskite, meeskite

Looking in the mirror

He would say

What an awful shock,

I've got a face

That could stop a clock.



Meeskite, meeskite

Such a pity on him

He is a

Meeskite, meeskite

God up in his Heaven left him out on a shaky limb

He put a meeskite on him!



[spoken]

Listen, he grew up. Even meeskites grow up.



[singing]

And soon in the Heder (means Hebrew School)

He sat beside this little girl

And when he asked her, her name

She replied: "I'm Pearl!"



He ran to the Zeiddah (that's grandfather)

And said in the scratchy voice of his

You told me I was the homeliest

Well, gramps, you're wrong, Pearl is!



Meeskite, meeskite

No one ever saw a bigger

Meeskite, meeskite

Ev'rywhere a flaw

And maybe that is the reason why

I'm going to love her, until I die!



Meeskite, meeskite

Oh, it is a pleasure, she's a

Meeskite, meeskite

She's the one I'll treasure

For I thought there could never be

A bigger meeskite, than me!



[spoken]

Listen to what happened:



[singing]

And so they were married

And in a year she turned and smiled:

"I'm afraid, I am going to have a child".



Nine months she carried

Worrying how's that child would look

And all the cousins, well, worried too,

But what a turn fate took:



Gorgeous, gorgeous

They produced a baby that was

Gorgeous, gorgeous

Crowding 'round the cradle

All relatives awed and wooed

He ought to pose for a baby-food.



Gorgeous, gorgeous

Would I tell a lie?

He's simply

Gorgeous, gorgeous

Who'd have ever thought

That we will see such a flawless gem,

Out of two meeskites like them?



[spoken]

Wait! Wait! This story has a moral. All my stories have morals:



[singing]

Moral, moral

Yes indeed the story has a

Moral, moral

"Thou you not a beauty

It is nevertheless quite true

There may be beautiful things in you".



Meeskite, meeskite

Listen to a fable of the

Meeskite, meeskite

Anyone responsible for loveliness large or small

Is not a meeskite at all!