lyrics by Dovid Kerner                                                             Listen 

original song - Hank Williams' Jambalaya

(arrangement based on John Fogerty's recording of Jambalaya)

Goodbye Joe, we gotta go and shake the lulav
It’s a gutta zach, to sit 'neath schach and feel God's true love
Wind blows round, sun goes down, the full moon shines above
In the sukkah we stay, all night and day, and feel God's true love.

Gefilte fish, Rebbe's tish, rain on my sponge cake!
Crickets sing, we dine like kings, oh for goodness sake!
Hold on tight, for seven nights and for seven days
Eat in a sukkah, don't forget the brucha, vitzivanu leishaiv!

Instrumental

Gefilte fish, Rebbe's tish, rain on my sponge cake!
Crickets sing, we dine like kings, oh for goodness sake!
Hold on tight, for seven nights and for seven days
Eat in a sukkah, don't forget the brucha, vitzivanu leishaiv!

Lulav: Hebrew for the closed palm frond, taken together with myrtle branches, willow branches and a citron fruit (see Lev. 23:40), and shaken in the prescribed manner on each day of Sukkot.
Gutta zach: Yiddish for “It’s a good thing”.
Schach: Hebrew for the natural material (branches, bamboo etc.) used to cover the Sukkah
Sukkah: the temporary dwelling referred to in Vayikra (Leviticus 23:42).
Rebbe's tish: Yiddish for “Rabbi's table”.
Brucha: “bracha” – a blessing.
Vitzivanu leishaiv: Literally “who has commanded us to sit”, from the blessing “Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has commanded us to sit in the sukkah"!