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Cabaret : Meeskite
Jack Gilford
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Now, the only word
You have to know to understand this little song
Is the Yiddish word
"Meeskite"
Meeskite means "ugly"
Funny-looking
Meeskite means -
Meeskite, meeskite
Once upon a time there was a meeskite
Meeskite
Looking in the mirror
He would say
"What an awful shock!
I've got a face that could stop a clock"
Meeskite, meeskite
Such a pity on him
He's a meeskite, meeskite
God up in his heaven
Left him out on a shaky limb
He put a meeskite on him
Listen!
He grew up
Even meeskites grow up
And soon in the cheder -
Means Hebrew school -
He sat beside this little girl
And when he asked her
Her name, she replied
"I'm Pearl"
He ran to the Zayda -
That's Grandfather -
And said, in that screechy voice of his
"You told me I was the homeliest
Well, Gramps, you're wrong
Pearl is!"
Meeskite, meeskite
No one ever saw a bigger meeskite, meeskite
Everywhere a flaw
And maybe that is the reason why
I'm going to love her until I die
Meeskite, meeskite
Oh, is it a pleasure
She's a meeskite, meeskite
She's the one I'll treasure
For I thought there could never be
A bigger meeskite than me
Listen to what happened!
And so they were married
And in a year
She turned and smiled
"I'm afraid I am going to have
A child"
Nine months she carried
Worrying how that child would look
And oh, the cousins were worried too
But what a turn fate took
Gorgeous, gorgeous
They produced a baby that was gorgeous, gorgeous
Crowding 'round the cradle
All the relatives aahed and oohed
He ought to pose for a baby food
Gorgeous, gorgeous
Would I tell a lie?
He's simply gorgeous, gorgeous
Who'd have ever thought
That we would see such a flawless gem
Out of two meeskites like them?
Wait, wait, this story has a moral
All my stories have morals
Moral, moral
Yes, indeed the story has a moral, moral
Though you're not a beauty it is nevertheless
Quite true
There may be beautiful things in you
Meeskite, meeskite
Listen to the fable
Of the meeskite, meeskite
Anyone responsible for loveliness
Large or small
Is not a meeskite at all
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