Menshen fresser, Yiddish-American song sheet music
Summary
"Maneater (tuberculosis)"
"This song affords a graphic description of the dreaded disease, which was then prevalent among the immigrant population in crowded New York City tenaments."
"Such a sickness eats at our lungs, and takes away all one's strength. How hard it is to work and to take care of our families. And then this man-eater, this terrible decourer, attacks parents and children. Tuberculosis is a plague among us."
Source: Heskes, Irene, Yiddish American Popular Songs, 1895-1950. (General)
Tags
Date
01/01/1917
Location
new york
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain