Dollar Bill by Megama Moshe Yess and Sholom Levine Jewish Music Lyrics

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.

My Zeidy Megama Moshe Yess and Shalom Levine Jewish Music Lyrics

My Zayde

Moshe Yess
Megama

My Zayde lived with us in my parents’ home,
He used to laugh, he put me on his knee.
He spoke about his life in Poland,
He spoke, but with a bitter memory.

He spoke about the soldiers who would beat him;
They laughed at him, they tore his long black coat.
And he spoke about a synagogue that they burned down,
And the crying that was heard beneath the smoke.

Chorus:
But Zayde made us laugh,
Zayde made us sing,
And Zayde made a kiddush Friday night;
And Zayde, oh, my Zayde,
How I loved him so,
And Zayde used to teach me wrong from right. 

His eyes lit up when he would teach me Torah,
He taught me every line so carefully.
He spoke about our slavery in Egypt,
And how G-d took us out to make us free.

But winter went by,
Summer came along,
I went to camp to run and play.
And when I came back home, 
They said, “Zayde’s gone,”
And all his books were packed and stored away.

I don’t know how or why it came to be,
It happened slowly over many years,
We just stopped being Jewish
like my Zayde was,
And no one cared enough to shed a tear.

Chorus

But many winters went by,
And many summers came along,
And now my children sit in front of me.
And who will be the Zayde of my children,
Who will be their Zayde, if not me?

Who will be the Zaydes of our children,
Who will be their Zaydes, if not we?

Hey Mister by Megama Moshe Yess and Sholom Levine Lyrics

Hey Mister

Hey Mister
Megama
Moshe Yess & Sholom Levine

Hey Mister can you help me
Hey Mister do you know the way
I've only got my sleeping bag
This old bible someone threw away


I feel like I'm lost and all alone
Looking for a place to call my own
Happy people loving faces
Sittin' 'round their fire places
Wish I was there too
Wish I was there too

Hey mister can you help me
Hey mister do you know the way
I come from a troubled home
Got so bad I had to run away

I'm cold out here standing in the snow
Watching all the lucky ones who know
Happy people loving faces
Sittin' 'round their fire places
Wish I was there too
Wish I was there too..

Hey mister can you help me
Hey mister do you know the way
I'm looking for a synagogue
Someone who can show me how to pray

I feel like im going round and round
Looking for a thing I've never found
Happy people loving faces
Sittin' 'round their fire place
Wish I was there too
Wish I was there too

Benny Friedman singing "As a Jew" or "I don't wanna change my name"

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.

"As a Jew" or "I don't wanna change my name" Moshe Yess/ Megama (Lyrics)

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.