A popular song from 1911
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Miss Minnie Rosenstein
Had such a voice so fine
Just like Tetrazzini
Any time that Minnie sang a song
You’d think of real estate
Seven blocks long, Some song!
Young Mister Abie Cohn
Used to call to her home
Just to hear her singing
Presents he was bringing full of bliss
One night young Abie
Proposed to the Miss, like this
Refrain
Yiddisha nightingale, sing me a song
Your voice has got such sweetness
That it makes me strong
Yiddisha nightingale, sing me a song
I promise that I’ll take you on a long honeymoon
I’d give a dollar to hear you, my queen
I wouldn’t give a nickel to hear Tetrazzini
Just to hear your cultivated voice good and strong
I’d serve a year in jail
Yiddisha nightingale
Won’t you sing me a song?
- Then said young Abie Cohn
“I’m going to buy a home
One that’s made of marble
Dear, where you can warble harmony
And I don’t care for expenses you see
That’s me!
I’ll go and learn to play on the piano, say
You’ll sing while I’m playing
People will be saying as they pass
And they look in through the window glass
“Some class!”
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: