Dayenu: Thrift-Shlep


At the Lovitz second seder in 2012, Ilana and Steve combined pop music and iambic pentameter.


Steve's partIlana's part

We gonna talk some trash!
Got, twenty shekels in our pockets.

Jacob wore a rainbow robe.
Bros threw him in a hole.

Enough, enough, enough, we say enough!
The Jews through time have always had it rough.

Our Mothers and our Fathers went on down,
To Egypt where the crops were plenty found.

We gonna talk some trash!
Got, twenty shekels in our pockets.

The Pharaoh, made us slaves.
We Heebs were not his faves.

Enough, enough, enough, we say enough!
The Jews through time have always had it rough.

Each child according to their style we say:
A slave then free was I this very day.

We gonna talk some trash!
Got, twenty shekels in our pockets.

Moses said, to Pharaoh: (join me now)
Let my people go!

Enough, enough, enough, we say enough!
The Jews through time have always had it rough.

With frogs and flies and lice HaShem did warn,
'Till finally the death of the first born.

We gonna talk some trash!
Got, twenty shekels in our pockets.

At seder, we wash twice.
Ashkenazi eat no rice.

Enough, enough, enough, we say enough!
The Jews through time have always had it rough.

'Bout Pesach, Matzoh, and Marror we speak,
Around the seder table at our seats.

We gonna talk some trash!
Got, twenty shekels in our pockets.

For forty years we walked;
Ate manna and we talked.

Enough, enough, enough, we say enough!
The Jews through time have always had it rough.

Torah, shabbat these holy things did bring,
HaShem to us so Pesach we could sing.

We gonna talk some trash!
Got, twenty shekels in our pockets.

Sam wears his granddad's clothes;
He looks incredible!

Enough, enough, enough, we say enough!
The Jews through time have always had it rough.

For Pesach for eight days no bread we eat
At Seder there are yummy drinks and meat

We gonna talk some trash!
Got, twenty shekels in our pockets.


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