Recycling Chanukah 4
I feel so environmentally correct.
Tonight I offer you two related, but ultimately quite different songs about marrying off daughters. The first song, Di Mezinke (the youngest daughter) is a happy song. The father is celebrating the fact that his youngest daughter is getting married.
The second song, Drei Techterlech (three daughters) starts off as a happy song, but becomes quite sad by the end. In this song, the father is initially celebrating the fact that his eldest and middle daughters have gotten married. One line says that "such a joy only G_d knows and those that have daughters." But by the time his youngest daughter gets married, the father is very sad, because now all his children have left home. In one particularly heartbreaking line he says that there are now three empty beds.
