VE'ULAI
AND PERHAPS
(Kinneret Sheli) (My Kinneret)
   

Ve'ulai - lo hayu hadvarim me'olam
Ve'ulai - lo hishkamti im shachar lagan
Le'avdo beze'at apay...

Me'olam - bayamim arukim veyokdim
(arukim veyokdim) shel katsir
Bimromei agalah amusat alumot
Lo natati koli bashir

Me'olam lo taharti bitchelet shoktah
uvatom

Chorus
Shel Kinneret sheli,
hoy Kinneret sheli
Heyayit, o chalamti chalom?

(repeat)

And perhaps - these things never happened
And perhaps - I never rose at dawn to plant
the fields with my own hands...

Never - on the long days
(long) of harvest

I did not give my voice to sing.

Never did I purify myself in your azure waters
with innocence

Chorus
Of my Kinneret,
oh my Kinneret.
Perhaps it was a dream.

(repeat)

 

 



Hebrew words


LYRICS

The poet Rachel

MUSIC Yehuda Sharet
SINGERS Various
CD Ke'chakot Rachel   Track 7 (sung by Arik Einstein)

Words transliterated & translated by George Jakubovits of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
German translation on the Esther Ofarim website published by Conny Drees
Singable Italian translation by Daniel Shalev of Rishon Le Zion, Israel
Contact the publisher of Hebrew Songs.com
 


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