I like the fact there's the guy playing the midget guitar, on account of as a Moshe Yess song it needs a little twang or country-ism, and that little instrument provides that. As always, Benny is good.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
"Someday" by MBD Mordechai Ben David Jep Vol. 4 (Lyrics)
Written by Dina Storch
Performed by Mordechai Ben David on JEP Vol. 4
('When I was just a little boy', circa 1982, Avraham Fried was beginning his career and had a Chanukah concert in Madison, Wisconsin. My father packed the family into our green station wagon and we drove the 4 hours to Madison from Minneapolis in 7 hours, through horrible snow. When we arrived at the concert hall, the show was over and people were filing out. When Fried saw us, he re-assembled the orchestra and did one more song, just for us. It was this song.)
They learned in a dark frigid cellar
Alone just a small group of men
When in rushed the soldiers and led them all away
The flame of Torah flickered on that day
So many tears, so much sorrow
The pain has lasted thousands of years
but soon we'll stop crying the cruelty will end
and Melech HaMoshiach will be sent
Chorus:
Someday we will all be together
Someday we'll be sheltered and warm
Never will we have to express any fear
Our scars and our wounds will disappear
Avraham and Yitzchok will be there to greet us
Yaakov and his sons will stand by and smile
Moshe Rabbeinu will lead us once again
in Yerushalayim - B'Ezras Hashem
We learn every day and we daven
We ask Hashem please bring those old times back
We all knowhe is listening of course we know it's true
For I've received the promise and so have you
That Hashem will lead us out of this galus
It won't be too much longer I know
and then together we'll all daven together we'll all sing
And praise and thank Hashem for everything
Chorus
Performed by Mordechai Ben David on JEP Vol. 4
('When I was just a little boy', circa 1982, Avraham Fried was beginning his career and had a Chanukah concert in Madison, Wisconsin. My father packed the family into our green station wagon and we drove the 4 hours to Madison from Minneapolis in 7 hours, through horrible snow. When we arrived at the concert hall, the show was over and people were filing out. When Fried saw us, he re-assembled the orchestra and did one more song, just for us. It was this song.)
They learned in a dark frigid cellar
Alone just a small group of men
When in rushed the soldiers and led them all away
The flame of Torah flickered on that day
So many tears, so much sorrow
The pain has lasted thousands of years
but soon we'll stop crying the cruelty will end
and Melech HaMoshiach will be sent
Chorus:
Someday we will all be together
Someday we'll be sheltered and warm
Never will we have to express any fear
Our scars and our wounds will disappear
Avraham and Yitzchok will be there to greet us
Yaakov and his sons will stand by and smile
Moshe Rabbeinu will lead us once again
in Yerushalayim - B'Ezras Hashem
We learn every day and we daven
We ask Hashem please bring those old times back
We all knowhe is listening of course we know it's true
For I've received the promise and so have you
That Hashem will lead us out of this galus
It won't be too much longer I know
and then together we'll all daven together we'll all sing
And praise and thank Hashem for everything
Chorus
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
"Memories" by Abie Rotenberg Journeys 2 (Lyrics)
Memories by Abie Rotenberg
I’m a very tired old and worn out man
And my eyes have long been blind
Most things that people say to me
Just seem to slip my mindBut the suffering and painful times
That were in years long gone
Are still as clear upon my memory
As the numbers on my arm
What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
Who will stand before the world
Knowing what to say
When the very last survivor
Fades away
When I hold my grandson close to me
And his fingers trace the pattern of my tears
He asks me Zaide
Tell me why do you cry
What is it that you fear
And I tell him there once was another child
Who smelled this sweet and felt this warm
But he was taken from before my eyes
And only I remain to mourn
What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
And who will stand before a world
That now wishes to deny
How will they believe in someone
Who never heard the cries
There is little I can say or do
To make things change
Time has a way of passing by so fast
And like a fleeting shadow no one will recall
The faces of the past
What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
Yet one thought gives me comfort
It’s all that I have left
For I know that God in heaven won’t forget
I’m a very tired old and worn out man
And my eyes have long been blind
Most things that people say to me
Just seem to slip my mindBut the suffering and painful times
That were in years long gone
Are still as clear upon my memory
As the numbers on my arm
What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
Who will stand before the world
Knowing what to say
When the very last survivor
Fades away
When I hold my grandson close to me
And his fingers trace the pattern of my tears
He asks me Zaide
Tell me why do you cry
What is it that you fear
And I tell him there once was another child
Who smelled this sweet and felt this warm
But he was taken from before my eyes
And only I remain to mourn
What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
And who will stand before a world
That now wishes to deny
How will they believe in someone
Who never heard the cries
There is little I can say or do
To make things change
Time has a way of passing by so fast
And like a fleeting shadow no one will recall
The faces of the past
What will become of all the memories
Are they to scatter with the dust in the breeze
Yet one thought gives me comfort
It’s all that I have left
For I know that God in heaven won’t forget
Monday, March 18, 2013
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
As a Jew / I don't wanna change my name
Megama / Moshe Yess & Sholom Levine
performed by Benny Friedman on Yess Legacy
I don’t wanna change my name
I got nothing to be ashamed of
Got no secrets from you.
I came in the world this way
And I’m goin’ out the same
Gonna live my life and die as a Jew.
As a Jew, as a Jew,
I got nothing to apologize to you
I’m the son of Abraham, I believe in the promised land
Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you?
Noah built the ark, Moses went up on Mount Sinai,
Daniel made it through the lion’s den.
With a little faith in G-d they all made it through their troubles
‘Cause a little faith in G-d will always win.
And it’s true, and it’s true... I got nothing to apologize to you
I’m the son of Abraham, I believe in the promised land
Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you?
As a Jew, as a Jew, I got nothing to apologize to you
I’m the son of Abraham, I believe in the promised land
Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you?
Shouldn’t you?
Beggar Woman
Megama/ Moshe Yess & Shlolom Levine
also recorded by 8th Day
Today, she was sitting on the street
Sorrow in her eyes, a tin can at her feet
Holes in her stockings and holes in her shoes
She’s an old beggar woman no stranger to bad news
I reached in my pocket to give a bill or two
In my heart I was trying to see what I could do
She thanked me for the money, I turned to walk away
But I waited for a moment as she began to say
Chorus:G-d loves the widow and the orphan and the blind
The old and the needy who haven’t got a dime
G-d loves the sickly, in his eyes we’re all the same
And G-d he loves you too just call upon His name
I don’t know where she came from, I don’t know her at all
But the wrinkles on her face, they kinda tell it all
So reach in your pocket and give a bill or two
And you can thank G-d in Heaven that the beggar isn’t you.
also recorded by 8th Day
Today, she was sitting on the street
Sorrow in her eyes, a tin can at her feet
Holes in her stockings and holes in her shoes
She’s an old beggar woman no stranger to bad news
I reached in my pocket to give a bill or two
In my heart I was trying to see what I could do
She thanked me for the money, I turned to walk away
But I waited for a moment as she began to say
Chorus:G-d loves the widow and the orphan and the blind
The old and the needy who haven’t got a dime
G-d loves the sickly, in his eyes we’re all the same
And G-d he loves you too just call upon His name
I don’t know where she came from, I don’t know her at all
But the wrinkles on her face, they kinda tell it all
So reach in your pocket and give a bill or two
And you can thank G-d in Heaven that the beggar isn’t you.
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