Text & Translation
L'énigme éternelle
Yiddish source:
Anon.
Tra la tra la la la la
Ent fernt men
Tra la la...
Un as men will kennen sagen
Tra la la …
Frägt die Velt die alte Casche
Tra la la...
The eternal enigma
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Tra la tra la la la la
The answer comes:
Tra la la …
If you cannot be answered:
Tra la la …
World, you question us:
Tra la la …
L'énigme éternelle
Yiddish source:
Anon.
The eternal enigma
English source:
Richard Stokes
Frägt die Velt die alte Casche
World, you question us:
Tra la tra la la la la
Tra la tra la la la la
Ent fernt men
The answer comes:
Tra la la...
Tra la la …
Un as men will kennen sagen
If you cannot be answered:
Tra la la …
Tra la la …
Frägt die Velt die alte Casche
World, you question us:
Tra la la...
Tra la la …
Composer
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. In the 1920s and 1930s he was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. He was one of the first composers to acknowledge the potential of recording in making…
