[1st verse:]
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Miss Minnie Rosenstein
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Had such a voice so fine
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Just like Tetrazzini
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Any time that Minnie sang a song
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You'd think of real estate seven blocks long
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Some song!
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Young Mister Abie Cohn used to call to her home
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Just to hear her singing
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Presents he was bringing
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Full of bliss!
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One night young Abie proposed to the Miss
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Like this!
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[Refrain:]
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Yiddisha nightingale, sing me a song
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Your voice has got such sweetness that it makes me strong
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Yiddisha nightingale, sing me a song
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I promise that I'll take you on a long honeymoon
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I'd give a dollar to hear you, my queen
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I wouldn't give a nickel to hear Tetrazzini
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Just to hear your cultivated voice good and strong
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I'd serve a year in jail
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Yiddisha nightingale
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Won't you sing me a song?
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[2nd verse:]
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Then said young Abie Cohn
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"I'm going to buy a home
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One that's made of marble
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Dear, where you can warble harmony
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And I don't care for expenses you see
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That's me!
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I'll go and learn to play on the piano, say
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You'll sing while I'm playing
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People will be saying
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As they pass
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Some class!"
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Yiddisha Nightingale
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| Irving Berlin |
