Here’s me singing it while playing very amateurish piano at my wedding song blog: Reiach Tapuach

Translation:

Come back little bird, on the shoulder of the wind… [...]]]> This is actually an Israeli song with lovely lyrics (see below) but I think it makes a good Jewish instrumental too.

Here’s me singing it while playing very amateurish piano at my wedding song blog: Reiach Tapuach

Translation:

Come back little bird, on the shoulder of the wind…
The fruit is opening up in my garden
The lemon scent lights up the apple
The rain is gone and winter is past.

O, who will bring you the letter?
Who will bring a bride to my garden?
I’ll build you a nest of linen on a tree top
Scent of apples and ruby scarlet.

Come, please come, gazelle of delight
The fields are dressed in clothes of dew
The sun already reddened for us
And in our glass is red wine.

O who will fly, hover in the sky?
Who will bring you the tidings of spring?
Who will bring a bride on wings?
Who will bring you to my garden?

Come back, for the winter is over,
Summer brings a new dawn
Return to me, to your nest, little bird,
Come back gazelle to the deer’s cradle.

If you want to hear it sung, it’s on my wedding songs blog: Hana’ava Babanot

Translation: Most beautiful of maidens, lift [...]]]> I usually sing this and play concertina, with one or two other instruments, but my daughter’s hiring a solo cellist, so here’s what it sounds like as a solo (on the viola because I don’t play cello).

If you want to hear it sung, it’s on my wedding songs blog: Hana’ava Babanot

Translation:
Most beautiful of maidens,
lift your face to me,
come, beloved, for you are most fair,
and have delighted me.
give me your hand and embrace me -
strengthen me again and again