Mickey Katz — Sixteen Tons lyrics

Lyrics

Oh, I went to woyk in a delicatessen
Far draysik toler and plenty to fresn
The balebast promised me a real gedila
Instead of gedila I catched me a kila
Sixteen tons all kinds smooked fishes
Latkes, blintzes, un heyse knishes
O Lordy nem es shnell to the promised land
A fayer afn bus zol er vein farbrent
You load sixteen tons of lekakh un tagl
Herring mislines stuffed heldzl and beygl
Genig tsu shlepn just like a ferd
Hert zikh tsu tsu mir mentshn
Es teyg in dred