(lyrics & music by Moshe Wilensky)
(Esther Ofarim, 1961)
available here
watch my video to this song:
Avi, avi hagida na li
Madua halaila shachor we’afel
Weruach masia kirei arafel?
Afel jaldi, halaila afel
Weruach dofek mechalon le’eshnaw
Al aw shemarad im chameshet banaw
Haged avi me’ain ala
Me’ein ala halapid habo’er
We lama yaruts bedarko mimaher?
Alai jaldi, ala halapid
Misdoth modain el mishor hakwarim
Lisroach kulo shalawot we’orim
We’ey hashwil ayč hamishol
Ayč hamishol ze atik hadorot
Bo rats halapid we zorea oro?
Mahar bagai omer hamishol
Mimrom hagalil ad Eilath we hajam
Ad sedot giborim she naflu al harbam.
We’od avi, emorli rak zoth
Madua halaila mikol haleiloth
Zorchim ha orim umargim la’aloth?
Midor lador jaldi ze ha’ot
Zoreach haor we oleh melawew
Belaila hazč el kawda le kislew.
Many thanks to Roel van Nieuwenhoven