One of my favorite Megama songs. Especially with Sholom Levine on the violin, or singing it around the couch at the spontaneous kumzitz...
Dollar Bill
One day a dollar bill went floating through the air
It flew into a synagogue and no one else was there
It landed on the Bimah and it tried to go to sleep,
But from the Aron Kodesh a voice began to speak.
“Who is in my synagogue?” the dollar bill said “I.
I’ve come here from America, there’s nothing I can’t buy
That’s why people worship me now tell me who are you?”
“My name is the Torah and all I say is true.”
“Tell me, tell me Torah, why do you seem so sad?
You live in this nice synagogue, I think you should be
glad.”
“I’ve always lived with Israel,” the Torah did reply
“And my people do not listen, and I just wonder why.”
The dollar bill was laughing as it flew into the air
It flew into the street and some people gathered there,
Everyone was jumping up to get it in their hand
Everyone was jumping up in the Promised Land.
And somewhere in the synagogue very late at night
There burned an olive oil lamp, it’s the eternal light,
And from the Aron Kodesh a cry is heard once more
And if you look real close you can see the tear drops on the
floor.
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