1. Passover things.
1
Motzah and maror and trouble with Pharaohs
Famines and locusts and slaves with wheelbarrows
Matzah balls floating and eggshell that cling
These are a few of our Passover things.
When the plagues strike
When the lice bite
When
we're feeling sad
We simply remember our Passover things And
Then we don't feel so bad.
2. There's
No Seder Like our Seder
(Sung to the tune of "There's no
Business like Show business")
There's no Seder like our Seder,
There's no Seder I know.
Everything about it is Halachic
Nothing that the Torah
won't allow.
Listen how we read the whole Haggadah
It's all in Hebrew, cause
we know how.
There's no Seder like our Seder, We tell a
tale that is swell:
Moses took the people out into the heat
They baked the matzoh, while on their feet
Now isn't that a story, that just can't be
beat?
Let's go ------------------on with the show!
3. Take
Us Out of
(Sung to the tune of "Take me out to
the ball game")
Take us out of
Free us from slavery
Bake us some matzah in a
haste
Don't worry 'bout flavor-
Give no thought to taste.
Oh it's rush, rush,
rush, to the
If we don't cross it's a shame.
For it's ten plagues, down and you're out
At the Pesach history game.
4. Take
Me Out To The Seder
(To the tune of, of course, "Take Me
Out to the Ballgame!")
Take me out to the Seder
Take me out with the crowd.
Feed me on matzah and chicken legs,
I don't care for the hard-boiled eggs.
And its root, root, root for Elijah
That he will soon reappear.
And let's hope, hope, hope that we'll meet
Once again next year!
Take me out to the Seder
Take me out with the crowd.
Read the Haggadah
And don't skip a word.
Please hold your talking,
We want to be heard.
And lets, root, root, root for the leader
That he will finish his spiel
So we can nosh, nosh, nosh and by-gosh
Let's eat the meal!!!
5. Elijah
(to the tune of
"Maria")
Elijah!
I just saw the prophet Elijah.
And suddenly that name
Will never sound the
same to me.
Elijah!
He came to our seder
Elijah!
He had his cup of wine,
But could not stay to dine
This year-
Elijah!
For your message all Jews are waiting:
That the time's come
for peace and not
hating-
Elijah-
Next year we'll be waiting.
Elijah!
6. Les
Miselijah
(to the tune of
"Do you hear the people Sing" from Les Miserables)
Do you hear the doorbell ring?
And it's a little after ten?
It can only be Elijah
Come to take a sip again.
He is feeling pretty fine
But in his head a screw is loose.
So perhaps instead of wine
We should only give him juice.
7. Just
a Tad of Charoset
(to the tune of
"Just a spoon full of sugar")
Chorus:
Just a tad of charoset helps the bitter herbs
go down,
The bitter herbs go down,
The bitter herbs go down.
Just a tad of charoset helps the bitter herbs
go down,
In the most disguising way.
Oh, back in
The Jews were slaves under Pharaoh.
They sweat and toiled and labored
Through the day.
So when we gather Pesach night,
We do what we think right.
Maror, we chew,
To feel what they went through.
Chorus
So after years of slavery
They saw no chance of being free.
Their suffering was the only life they knew.
But baby Moses grew up tall,
And said he'd save them all.
He did, and yet,
We
swear we won't forget.
That......
Chorus
While the maror is being passed,
We all refill our water glass,
Preparing for the taste
that turns us red.
Although maror seems full of minuses,
It sure does clear our sinuses.
But what's to do?
It's hard to be a Jew!!!
Chorus
8. Same
time next year
(to the tune of
"Makin' Whoopee")
Another Pesach, another year,
The family Seder with near and dear... Our
faces shining,
All thoughts of dining
Are put on hold now.
We hear four questions,
The answer given
Recalls the Jews from
The chrain is bitter, (haroset???s better!)
Please pass the matzoh.
Why is this evening different
From all the other
nights?
This year the Jews all over
Are free to perform the
rites.
A gorgeous dinner-who can deny it-Won't make
us thinner, to hell
with diet! It's
such great cooking...
and no one's
looking,
So just enjoy it.
Moving along at steady clip
Elijah enters, and takes a sip;
And then the singing with voices ringing Our laughter mingling.
When singing about
Watch close or your place you'll lose, For
Echad Mi Yodea:
Which tune shall we use?
We pray next Pesach
We'll all be here.
It's a tradition...
Same time next year...
So fill it up now, the final cup now, Next
year at ____________
9. The
Ballad of the Four Sons
(to the tune of
"Clementine")
By Abraham Love
Said the father to his children, "At
the seder you will dine,
You
will eat your fill of matzoh, you will drink
four cups of wine."
Now this father had no daughters, but his
sons they numbered four.
One was wise and one was wicked, one was
simple and a bore.
And the fourth was sweet and wholesome, he
was young and he was small.
While his brothers asked the questions he
could scarcely speak at all.
Said the wise one to his father,
"Would you please explain the laws?
Of the customs at the Seder, will you
please explain the cause?"
And the father proudly answered,
"As our fathers ate in speed,
Ate the paschal lamb till
So we follow their example, and till
All the Seder and we should not, after 12
remain to eat.
Then did sneer the son so wicked,
"What does all this mean to
you?"
And the father's voice was bitter,
As his grief and anger
grew.
"If you yourself don't consider, that
you are a son of
Then for you this has no meaning, you could
be a slave as well."
Then the simple son said simply,
"What is this that we do?"
And quietly the father told his
offspring,
"We were freed from slavery."
But the youngest son was silent, for he
could not ask at all.
His bright eyes were bright with wonder as
his father told him all.
My dear children,
heed the lesson and remember ever more
What the father told his children told his
sons that numbered four.
10. The Ballad of Mo Amramson
(to "The
Ballad of Jed Clampett")
Come
and listen to a story 'bout a man named Mo,
His
people they were slaves to
Until
one day he was lookin' at a bush,
And he heard the voice of God, though he wasn't
a lush---
The LORD, that is,
I AM,
The Big G.
Next thing you know, Mo's talkin' to
Pharoah,
Mo says, "God said you
gotta let my people
go!" But the king says,
"No, they always will be slaves to me!"
So God sent down ten big plagues on
Pharaoh's whole country---
Blood 'n frogs, that is,
Pestilence,
Special effects.
When the first-born died, Pharaoh sent the
Jews away; they ran and ate some matzoh
on that very happy day,
So
now we have our Seder to commemorate that feat---
We drink some wine and talk a lot, we sing
and also eat!
Matzoh, that is,
Maror too.
And good food.
Y'all come back now, y'hear!
11. Afikomen 'Round the Mountain
Chorus
Afikomen 'round the mountain when she comes ....
(1) She'll be drinkin' Mogen
David.... slurp, slurp
(2) She'll be burpin on charoses
...... burp, burp
(3) She'll be chewin' on a shank bone
chomp, chomp
(4) She'll be sleepin' off the matzos
snoring sound
12. Haggadah Wash that Man Right out of my Hair
Hagadah wash that man right out of my hair
Because he's full of
chometz but he
doesn't care.
That it's a custom now to be rid of that snare, I'll send him on his
way.
Haggadah drink my wine and feel real free,
Haggadah eat haroset, matzah and tea,
Haggadah
keeps the Seder, with joy and glee.
I
really love that day!!
He doesn't like gefilte fish,
eat it up, eat it
up.
He doesn't like the matzah dish
Heat it up, heat it up.
can't wait for
him to change-
Hey buddy... (repeat
1st verse).
13. Maror
(Sung to the tune of "More..")
Maror is the bitterness the world has
known,
But
in
Maror were the ghettos of across the sea,
But here we habitate a
Land that's free.
Maror on the table, we are sure and
We’re able to look forward to many
types of joy - oh
boy-oi-oi-oi...
Maror is the bitter herb upon our plate,
And if we were sober we
would palitate Maror
is the answer for the schnorer, who is rich or
poorer-
Why can't we love forever...Maror!
14. The Eight Nights of Passover:
(To the tune of 'The Twelve Days of
Christmas')
On the first night of Passover my mother
served to me
1) a matzah ball in chicken soup
2) two dipped herbs
3) three pieces of matzah
4)
four cups of wine
5) five gefilte fish
6) six capons baking
7) seven eggs a boiling
8) eight briskets roasting
15. Pharaoh doesn't Pay
(To the tune of "I've been Working on the Railroad")
We've been working on these buildings;
Pharaoh doesn't pay.
We've been doing what he tells us
Mixing straw with clay.
Can't you hear the master calling,
"Hurry up, make that brick!"
Can't you feel the master whip us
'Til we're feeling sick.
Oy vay, it's a mess,
A terrible distress,
Oy vay, it's a mess for Jews, us Jews.
Moshe's in the palace with Pharaoh,
Warning of all God's clout,
clout, clout.
Moshe's in the palace with Pharaoh,
And God's gonna get us out!
We're singing . . . .
Fee, Fi, Fiddely eye oh,
Make our matzahs "to go" oh
oh oh.
Fee, Fi, Fiddely eye oh,
Stick it to the ol' Pharaoh!
16.
(Sung to the tune of Gilligan's
Just recline right back and you'll hear a
tale, a tale of dreadful
trip.
That started with ten awful plagues
brought unto
The boss he was a Jewish man raised as a Pharaoh's son.
Then G-d he did come calling and soon the fun begun, soon the fun begun.
More blood, such frogs, and all those
bugs, Pharaoh could just
Barely
see.
The Jews were really scoring points and
soon they would be free.
And soon they would be free.
They shlepped and shlepped for forty years
across a desert land. He
Went up to Mt Sinai and a party soon began, a
party soon began.
Moses, the Pharaoh too,
Aaron and his wife.
Marianne the skipper too here
On the desert island.