I Have a Garden

I Have a Garden

  • Lyrics: Haim Nachman Bialik
  • Music: Nachu Nardi according to Folk Arabic
  • Arrangements: Shem Tov Levi
  • Album: Homeland Songs (2009)

Translated by George Jakubovits

Lyrics

I have a garden and a well too,
And a bucket hangs over my well;
Every Sabbath my beloved comes,
To drink pure water from my jug.

Every Sabbath my beloved comes,
To drink pure water from my jug.

Hush! – the whole world sleeps
Both the apple and the pear;
My mother slumbers, my father too has fallen asleep,
Only my heart and I are awake.

My mother slumbers, my father too has fallen asleep,
Only my heart and I are awake.

And the bucket, like my heart, is awake
Dripping gold into the well,
Dripping gold, and dripping crystal:
My beloved is coming, my beloved comes.

Dripping gold, and dripping crystal:
My beloved is coming, my beloved comes.

Hush, the tree boughs shake –
Does my beloved come or did a bird tremble?
My beloved, my beloved! – hurry my dearest,
There is no one in the yard but me.

My beloved, my beloved! – hurry my dearest,
There is no one in the yard but me.

There is no one in the yard but me.

I have a garden and a well too
I have