Composed By Aaron Perlmutter and Herman Wohl

Arranged by Cathy Rand

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Voicing: SATB

Keyword America, Yiddish Theater

Event/Holiday: American Independence Day, Columbus Day

Language: Yiddish

Difficulty: moderately easy

Country: America

Solos: mezzo

Instruments: piano

Lyrics: Louis Gilrod, Boris Thomashefski and Abe Teres

Year Composed/Published: Music 1915, Arrangement 1994

Timing: 3:30

Tempo: moderately fast

First Line: a shtetl iz America

description: The hit song from the popular Yiddish comedy, The Green Millionaire. It expresses the new immigrant’s amazement at how good life is in America. And whom could they thank for this amazing land? The man who made it all possible, Christopher Columbus.