Recognition Of A Classical Work

[moshezsb]

I am searching for the name of a classical work.I do not have the recording of the passage, but I know there is a comic song in Yiddish language starting with the words " Oy Vay Surale" and the tune for this song has been taken from that classical work that I am looking for.
Can someone help me?

Thanks
Moshe

[NCF]

Hello Moshe,

I know a few Yiddish folk songs, but I must request that you find a decent recording to which you can link us (or as a last resort, strum it out here http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html and send us the link it generates). I could only find a home video on Youtube which wasn't much use for discerning pitch.
Does [סורל] mean "corrupt"? Is that even the proper transliteration? Is the musical basis "classical" in the broadest sense (see: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=44)? I think I have more questions than you do!

Woe is me,
Nathan

Post Scriptum: Moshe [ben-Avraham] is my brother's Hebrew name. Nachman is mine.