Hineh Ma Tov

DESCRIPTION: Hebrew round: "Hineh ma tovumah nayim Shevet achim gam yachad." "How goodly it is and how pleasant For brethren to dwell together."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1959 (Cray-AshGrove)
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage brother nonballad
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 446, "Hine Ma Tov" (notes only)
SongsOfManyNations, "Hiney Mah Tov" (1 Hebrew text with translation, 1 tune) (12th edition, p. 13)
Cray-AshGrove, p. 25, "Hi-ne-mah Tov" (1 text, 2 tunes [presented on a single staff, so it's hard to tell where one stops and the other starts])
RECORDINGS:
Fran Block, "Hine Ma Tov" (Piotr-Archive #539, recorded 03/09/2023)
NOTES [63 words]: No one seems to be able to agree on how to transliterate the Hebrew here; I chose the spelling I thought least likely to result in bad jokes. The Hebrew text is as given in "Songs of Many Nations" except for that.
The text is adapted from Psalm 133:1, which the King James version renders, "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!" - RBW
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File: ACSF446H

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