Cabaret Soundtrack Meeskite Lyrics

Meeskite Lyrics

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!