"Hob ikh a por tsign"  I have a pair of goats

Yiddish nonsense song for children. Collected by YIVO ethnographers from an informant in an unspecified location in Poland before World War II.

I have a pair of goats

Who rock children in their cradles

Wonder of wonders

Goats rocking children

I have a pair of doves

Who sew bonnets

Wonder of wonders

Doves sewing bonnets

I have a pair of oxen

Who knead noodles

Wonder of wonders

Oxen kneading noodles

I have a pair of cows

Who say 'Mode Ani' [morning prayers]

Wonder of wonders

Cows saying 'Mode Ani'

I have a pair of hens

Who gather twigs

Wonder of wonders

Hens gathering twigs