Songs included in "The Kosher Widow" are: Gantz Long Island Redt, An Akteritzeh, Oib S'iz Bashert, Di Belles fun Belle Harbor, Am Yisroel Chai, Mazel Tov, M'Nemt Eich Oif Der Hutska, Ich Darf Dich, and a drinking song, Le Chayim.

Here's a funny stanza from Le Chayim:

Toyznt vayber hot gehat
Shloyme hameylekh der kliger.
Fargest nisht az tsa yedn vayb
Hot ir oykh gekrign a shviger!

And a rough translation:

A thousand wives were had by King Solomon the wise. But don't forget that with every wife He also acquired a mother-in-law!

Yiddish oysyes were made possible by Rafael Finkel's Yidishe Shraybmashinke.

Okay, my translation's not particularly poetic, and Yiddish jokes never sound the same in English anyway, but hopefully it'll get you started.

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