Columbia Fight Song in Yiddish
Channel: Jewish Language Project
Date: 16/09/2022

Students are studying in the library on Orgo Night when the Columbia Marching Band enters the library and plays the Columbia Fight Song - in Yiddish!

Translator: Sarah Benor

Lyrics:
Shray, leybl, shray
Vek dem ekho inem tol fun hodson
Kemf take bizn letstn zig
Ven di zin fun nikerbaker zaynen tray
Kolumbie, Kolumbie
Shrayen ir nomen tomid
Shray, leybl, shray
Tsu alme mame afn hodson breg

English original:
Roar, lion, roar
And wake the echoes of the Hudson Valley
Fight on to victory evermore
While the sons of Knickerbocker
Rally 'round Columbia, Columbia
Shouting her name forever
Roar, lion, roar
For Alma Mater on the Hudson shore!

A scene from the Columbia University Yiddish Club's "The Yiddish Cabaret," Thursday, March 21, 1996. Full video available at https://youtu.be/gMf6NZ35VcA.