Listen (check back in Kislev)

music: Hank Williams' Jambalaya

arrangement based on John Fogarty's recording of Jambalaya

lyrics, guitars and keyboard: Dovid Kerner

Goodbye Joe, we've got to go, light the menorah

Spin some draydels with cousin Fraydel, learn some Torah

Sun goes down, we gather round, you know it's our mesorah

Come chuf hey, in the month of Kislev, we light menorahs.

Fight to be free, Macabee, shmona lailot!

Kids get chachkas, we eat latkas, sufganiot!

Throughout the night, we're burning bright, shmona nairot!

Son of a gun, we'll have big fun, shmona lailot!

mesorah: chain of transmission of Jewish teaching/tradition

chuf hey: the 'twenty fifth' day (of the month of Kislev)

shmona lailot: eight candles

sufganiot: Hebrew for 'latkas'

shmona nairot: eight lights

www.kernersongs.com