Hallelujah for Matzah
(to be sung to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah Chorus)
Lyrics by Joshua March
There was a time, when we weren’t free
Trapped in bonded slavery
But the Lord and Moses came, to save us
Had the Lord not saved us
From Egypt
All our people would still be slaves
And so tonight we eat, Matzah
Matzah (x4)
Once God had sent the ten plagues
With nothing left of the Pharaoh’s rage
We finally had our moment, to leave
But we didn’t want to take a chance
And risk the Pharaoh saying we can’t
So we grabbed our dough and turned it into Matzah
Matzah (x4)
Now we’re free, to roam to world
With the story of Israel still to unfold
But billions still enslaved in war and poverty
So Hashem our Lord
Told us this day
Remember then, and think of now
Because the day of freeing the world is yet to come
Matzah (x4)
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1 comment:
Wow, I love the repurposing of L Cohen's song for Passover and Matzah!
Also bemused by the (Freudian?) slip -- Cohen's song is called Hallelujah full stop. King David lived about 970 BCE.
The 'Hallelujah Chorus' comes in another much longer epic work by one GF Handel about someone who ate a Passover Seder meal about 2000 year ago.
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