{"id":228,"date":"2016-02-15T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2021-12-05T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T16:02:00","slug":"when-francis-dances-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/when-francis-dances-with-me\/","title":{"rendered":"When Francis Dances with Me (My father)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When Francis Dances with Me\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ptYT82k3bEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I got this one in the authentic oral tradition: my father used to sing it at the dinner table, along with &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/the-sheik-of-araby\/\">Sheik of Araby<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;Oh, By Jingo,&#8221; and &#8220;Lena Was the Queen o&#8217; Palestina&#8221; (just because she played the concertina). <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-319 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/george1927.jpg?resize=177%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"george1927\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/george1927.jpg?resize=177%2C300&amp;ssl=1 177w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/george1927.jpg?w=210&amp;ssl=1 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/>There were lots of others, including some that I&#8217;ve never seen mentioned anywhere and that may have died with him. For example, a fake Russian number with the immortal couplet:<\/p>\n<p>Like a balalaika moaning in a minor key,<br \/>\nSome of our friends are sipping samovar tea.<br \/>\n(That&#8217;s &#8220;bala-like-a&#8221; and &#8220;some of our tea.&#8221; Get it?)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this was one of his favorites, and I&#8217;m pretty sure it started out being a favorite because his first wife was named Frances and he used to sing it to her. I was from the second family, and the break-up had not been amicable, but he kept singing the song.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-230 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/whenfrancis.jpg?resize=200%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"whenfrancis\" width=\"200\" height=\"275\" \/>I can still sing lots of songs I learned from my father, as well as telling his jokes and reciting his Yiddish dialect recitations. Speaking of which, I really should pronounce the last line of this song in proper Brooklynese: &#8220;I wear a skoit that&#8217;s got two hundred slits&#8221; &#8212; like &#8220;Dere was toity doity boids at toity-toid and toid street.&#8221; Brooklyn was the mythic wonderland of my childhood, and this song was a notable part of the soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>If you want another touch of my father&#8217;s Brooklyn repertoire, I&#8217;ve got a dialect transcription of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/jake.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake the Plumber<\/a>,&#8221; his Jewish parody on &#8220;The Face On the Barroom Floor,&#8221; on my regular website. And if you want to know more about him, I&#8217;ve got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/georgewald.html\">page about his life<\/a>, with links to a couple of his speeches. He was a biologist and professor, as was my mother, and when I took up folksinging people acted like I took a sharply divergent path from my parents. 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