19. A Tall Tree, A Beautiful Tree, A Strong Tree! For Leibu Levin

From Yiddish: Rachel Cordikhi. Composed in 1960. This poem was written by Shike Driz one night when under the influence of Leibu Levin's performance of "Khotsh" ("Although") by Zelik Barditshever. He dedicated  the poem to L. Levin who subsequently created a melody for it that was a variation of the original Barditshever's folk tune. First published in the collection "Leibu Levin: Word and Melody" (In Yiddish, Hebrew and English; Tel Aviv: I.L.Peretz publications, 2005) Recorded by The Sound Archives, National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.