Ashkenazi
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From Rhineland spreadin’ down
To Alsace in the south.
Those medieval Hebrews,
Ashkenazi Jews.
Bring your Minhagim.
We’ll be so Halakhacal.
Don’t get confused
Cuz I’m not Sephardic.
You’re not sure what that means,
But you love my Yiddish.
Love my Yiddishkeit.
Yeshiva’ll help you get it right.
Cuz I know that maybe you…
Hebrew and German,
You’ll mix em up just like the SHUM league,
Ashken-ashkenazi.
Baby you don’t get Minhagim,
But I know that you can be
Ashken-ashkenazi.
Promise I’ll be kind
But I won’t stop until you’re beth dinized
Baby you’ll be Jewish
With German elements culturally.
Ashken-ashkenazi.
They used to be
Eatin’ gefilte fish.
Now they eat falafels;
Hebrew replacin’ Yiddish.
Much less Yiddishkeit
Unless you are Haredi.
You’ll help me out
So the pluralists learn.
They’re all wonderin’ why
‘Bout the teardrops I cry.
Oh my Yiddishkeit—
Syncretism in my life,
Cuz I know baby I…
Hebrew and German,
I mix em up just like the SHUM league,
Ashken-ashkenazi.
Baby you don’t get Minhagim,
But I know that you can be
Ashken-ashkenazi.
Promise I’ll be kind
But I won’t stop until you’re beth dinized
Baby you’ll be Jewish
With German elements culturally.
Ashken-ashkenazi.
That’s right
(Ashkenazi Minhagim)
Now you
(Know about my Halakha)
Can’t stop the Japhetic
Patriarch, Table of Nations!
Hebrew and German,
You’ll mix em up just like the SHUM league,
Ashken-ashkenazi.
Baby you don’t get Mingahim,
But I know that you can be
Ashken-ashkenazi.
Promise I’ll be kind
But I won’t stop until you’re beth dinized
Baby you’ll be Jewish
With German elements culturally.
Ashken-ashkenazi.
