As moving as MY YIDDISHE MOMME , Sophie Tucker's interpretation in english and in yiddish of MY MOTHER'S SABBATH CANDLES
Music and lyrics by JACK YELLEN
recorded in 1951 on the MERCURY RECORDS label.
Title: Mayn Mames Shabos Likht -- מײַן מאַמעס שבּת ליכט
Images : New York Jewish Lower East Side.

lyrics:

My Mother's Sabbath Candles


Among the smiles, among the tears
Of my childhood sweet and bitter years
There’s a picture that my memory fondly frames
In it softly shine two tiny flames

My mother’s Sabbath candles
That made our home so bright
That faithfully she lighted
With a prayer each Friday Night

And then around the table
We gathered and we heard
My father chant the Kiddush
His heart in every word

Our humble home became a mansion
In that mystic glow
and once again
Our hearts were filled with dreams of long ago

Through all the tragic stories
Of Israel’s darkest nights
They have never dimmed the glory
Of our mother’s Sabbath lights


שבת שלום SHABBAT SHALOM

alternate title used : MY MOTHER'S SHABBOS CANDLES