Overture To Glory (אין שיפֿן אויפֿן ים)

This is definitely not a song about the Ukraine, now. Nope. It’s just a History Song about the Olden Days of the Czars, when Russia used to draft men into the military to fight and die in pointless foreign wars, only to serve as a distraction from the incompetence and corruption of the regime at home. One might note that these losing wars ultimately led to the end of the Czars. Historically speaking. The story of the Russian 2nd Pacific Fleet in the Russo-Japanese War of 1905 is one of epic and brutally tragicomic foolishness, a military adventure that was set up to fail from the beginning, by the delusions of the Czar. Which is totally not like now. I asked Michael Wex to write a song in Yiddish about these historical and not current events just for no reason and not because anyone right now today is so much like Nicholas II in his callous and deluded adventurism. Instead of writing one song, he wrote six! So now we have a brilliant Yiddish operetta song cycle, ready for produ