Cabaret: Meeskite - Cabaret Original Broadway Cast/Jack Gilford

作词：Fred Ebb/Joe Masteroff

作曲：John Kander

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

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

Listen he grew up Even meeskites grow up

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

Listen to what happened

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

Wait Wait This story has a moral All my stories have morals

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