from Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird's new album THE BUTCHER'S SHARE out now!!
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Directed by Yoni Goldstein
Edited by Taylor Cleveland, Zoe Sua Cho, and Yoni Goldstein
Produced by Mass Ornament Films
Featuring (in order of appearance)
Daniel Kahn: Matt E. Realis
Guertrouda Lapsker
Anatoli Ptouchko
Polina Lapsker
AK Spaniel "Shmonik" Lapsker
Paul Brody: F. E. Tishler
Carol Scherer: Diana Lektik
The generous butchers of the Helal
Fleischgroßhandel at the Berliner Großmarkt
Text quotes from Karl Marx, "Das Kapital" vol. 1
Tracks:
SHIMKE KHAZER intro: Trad Yiddish gangster ballad
Featuring Michael Alpert, vocals; Jake Shulman-Ment, violin
Shimke Khazer iz keyn Stambol geforn
Er hot gevolt zikh farlengern di yorn
Er hot gevolt dos lebn makhn beser
Hot men im arayngelegt a zagranitshne meser
(Shimke the Pig went to Istanbul
He wanted to extend his years
He wanted to make his life better
He ended up stabbed with a foreign knife)
THE BUTCHER'S SHER
English: Daniel Kahn / Music: Daniel Kahn, trad
Sher: A Yiddish square dance
Featuring Daniel Kahn, vocals, accordion, banjo, bird whistle
Chrisian Dawid, clarinet, saxophones; Jake Shulman-Ment, violin
Dan Blacksberg, tbone; Hampus Melin, drums; Michael Tuttle, bass
Well the world has never been so very small,
Though they say there's not enough to feed us all.
So you better save a nickel while you can,
But it needn't come from someone else's hand.
Just take a little extra every day,
For honest work deserves an honest pay.
You can tell the world you did it by yourself,
But there's someone you must thank for all his help:
YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS SHARE.
YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE BELIEVE HE ISN'T THERE.
YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE BELIEVE YOU JUST RECEIVE WHAT'S ONLY FAIR,
THAT NO ONE HAS TO SUFFER TO KEEP YOU IN YOUR CHAIR,
BUT YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS SHARE.
Let's take a walk around the old bazaar
Where every little thing has traveled far.
Every pair of pants and grain of rice
Contains a horror story in its price:
A story of the power people wield,
A story about factories and fields,
Of which you'll never have to be aware,
Just as long as the butcher gets his share
YES YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS SHARE,
NO MATTER WHAT YOU BUY OR WHAT YOU WEAR.
CAUSE NO ONE EVER SAID THE DISTRIBUTION WOULD BE FAIR.
THERE'S BLOOD AND GUTS ENCODED IN THE VALUE OF THE WARE,
BUT YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS SHARE.
So here's another soldier on the train.
You hope you won't be seeing him again.
You tell yourself "my god, he looks so young."
And you find that you are staring at his gun.
And you wonder what this soldier does for fun.
And you wonder 'bout the things he might have done.
Well he was doing them for people just like you.
So you'd better give the butcher his due.
YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS DUE,
CAUSE YOU'RE LUCKY THAT IT'S HIM INSTEAD OF YOU,
WHO DOES THE DIRTY THINGS YOU HOPE YOU'LL NEVER HAVE TO DO,
AND HAS TO KEEP HIS FILTHY LITTLE FINGERS OUT OF VIEW,
SO YOU BETTER GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS DUE.
You can build yourself a garden,
You can cover it in green.
But my dear, I beg your pardon,
How do you keep your little fingers clean?
Now you don't have to rally round a flag.
You may as well salute a dirty rag.
And this isn't a defense of evil deeds,
It's just a little a song about our needs.
Our need to feel enlightened and secure,
And civilized and rational and pure,
To feel that we are decent, good, and nice,
Just as long as the butcher gets his price.
YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS PRICE,
NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS LOT,
FOR BEING EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU'RE NOT.
YOU GOTTA GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS SHARE,
NO MATTER HOW YOU SAY YOU REALLY CARE.
'CAUSE HE'S THE ONE WHO DID THE STEALING
AND THEN NAMED YOU AS THE HEIR,
WHOSE FILTHINESS PROVIDED YOU THE PRIVILEGES YOU BEAR,
YOU GOTTA GIVE THE GIVE THE BUTCHER HIS SHARE.