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On Youtube, the song “A Little Bird is Calling” has these notes.
“This song was written in 1947 by Malka Steinberg Saks at Camp Bais Yaakov”.
Was this the Malka Saks a”h who was married to R’ Boruch Saks (Yeshiva of Staten Island)? Was she a maiden Steinberg? Anyone knows?
Also, I heard a decently funny version of this song, with a bird hit by a truck and a homeless guy, and a turkey. I don’t think I know all the words though.
Dunno the answer to your questions but I always loved that song and wondered where it is from. Does anybody know if any CDs are available today with that song?
My grandmother is OBSESSED with the song!!
The one on Youtube referred to in the OP has no Kol Isha and I believe is not copyrighted. Maybe just record it from there? It’s titled “The little bird is calling.wmv”
The Jewish Lyrics site says the following:
First recorded by Tzlil V’Zemer
Boys Choir
Album: Wake Up Yidden
Composed at Camp Gan Israel
The little bird is calling,
It wishes to return.
The little bird is wounded,
It cannot fly but yearn.
Crying bitterly,
Oh, to see my nest again,
Oh, to be redeemed.
The little bird of silver,
So delicate and rare,
Still chirps amongst the vultures,
How long, how long it suffers,
How long will it be,
When will come the eagle,
And set the little bird free.
The little bird is Yisroel,
The vultures are our foes,
The painful wound is Golus,
Which we all feel and know,
The nest is Yerushalayim,
Where we yearn to be once more,
The eagle is the Moshiach,
Whom we are waiting for.
A comment on that site says: Your information is incorrect.
This song was written in 1947
by Malka Steinberg Saks at
Camp Bais Yaakov.
It was right after the end of
World War 2 and one year
before the establishment of the
State of Israel.
Camp Gan Israel was not yet in
existence at that time.
Sherwood Goffen recorded it at
least 5 years before the Tzlil
V’Zemer Boys Choir did. I was
born in 1942 and know this for
a fact. You were probably not
yet born when this song was
written. Malka is living in Paris,
France now and is 78 years old.
She was 15 and a junior
counselor at the camp when
she wrote the song.
Popa, can you post the funny lyrics you heard?
The Little Froggie is calling…
I loved this song as a child, and wrote a short camp play for my campers to perform when I worked at Camp HASC some 40+ years ago. That song was the finale of the play, which centered on Yetzias Mitzrayim and the zechus of the birds then and in the Midbar. I know it sounds a little ambitious in subject matter, but my girls did a fantastic job!
The 1972 version from Sherwoid Goffin says “oh to be free”
SiDi™
Someone claimed that the correct words are:
<blockquote<It cannot fly but yearn.
Crying bitterly,
Oh, to see my nest again,
Oh, to be with thy.Anyone ever heard such a thing? On the Tzli Vzemer version, it definitely is redeemed.
SiDi™
Avrumi Flamm says ‘to thy’ on his Sefira album
SiDi™
>>>Was this the Malka Saks a”h (a well known Shadchan), who was married to R’ Boruch Saks from Yeshiva of Staten Island?
No.
Malka Saks a”h who was married to R’ Boruch Saks was only about five years old in 1947 when the song was written
If you google the name “Malka Saks” you’ll get an article that she was nifteres about 7 months ago and that she was the wife of Rav Moshe Saks, a dayan in Yerushalyim. The lyrics of the song arein the article too
song is factually incorrect, Vultures only attack carrion not live prey.
Mbd sings it (or at least a part of it) and says the nest is the beis hamikdash as opposed to yerushalayim
>>>song is factually incorrect, Vultures only attack carrion not live prey.
The song says befaeirsh that the little bird is wounded and can fly. Vultures do attack wounded animals . And it’s only turkey vultures that do not usually attack live prey. Black vultures attack live animals too
SiDi, you meant to write “to thee”.
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