Cabaret: Meeskite

Now, the only word
 You have to know to understand this little song
 Is the Yiddish word
 "Meeskite"
 Meeskite means "ugly"
 Funny-looking
 Meeskite means -
 Meeskite, meeskite
 Once upon a time there was a meeskite
 Meeskite
 Looking in the mirror
 He would say
 "What an awful shock!
 I've got a face that could stop a clock"
 Meeskite, meeskite
 Such a pity on him
 He's a meeskite, meeskite
 God up in his heaven
 Left him out on a shaky limb
 He put a meeskite on him
 Listen!
 He grew up
 Even meeskites grow up
 And soon in the cheder -
 Means Hebrew school -
 He sat beside this little girl
 And when he asked her
 Her name, she replied
 "I'm Pearl"
 He ran to the Zayda -
 That's Grandfather -
 And said, in that screechy voice of his
 "You told me I was the homeliest
 Well, Gramps, you're wrong
 Pearl is!"
 Meeskite, meeskite
 No one ever saw a bigger meeskite, meeskite
 Everywhere a flaw
 And maybe that is the reason why
 I'm going to love her until I die
 Meeskite, meeskite
 Oh, is it a pleasure
 She's a meeskite, meeskite
 She's the one I'll treasure
 For I thought there could never be
 A bigger meeskite than me
 Listen to what happened!
 And so they were married
 And in a year
 She turned and smiled
 "I'm afraid I am going to have
 A child"
 Nine months she carried
 Worrying how that child would look
 And oh, the cousins were worried too
 But what a turn fate took
 Gorgeous, gorgeous
 They produced a baby that was gorgeous, gorgeous
 Crowding 'round the cradle
 All the relatives aahed and oohed
 He ought to pose for a baby food
 Gorgeous, gorgeous
 Would I tell a lie?
 He's simply gorgeous, gorgeous
 Who'd have ever thought
 That we would see such a flawless gem
 Out of two meeskites like them?
 Wait, wait, this story has a moral
 All my stories have morals
 Moral, moral
 Yes, indeed the story has a moral, moral
 Though you're not a beauty it is nevertheless
 Quite true
 There may be beautiful things in you
 Meeskite, meeskite
 Listen to the fable
 Of the meeskite, meeskite
 Anyone responsible for loveliness
 Large or small
 Is not a meeskite at all