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
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