[HANASHIR:5106] Re: Kosher songs

[Meris Ruzow <meris...>]

What a great song!    Can anyone else fill in the blanks to "Consider
Yourself?"
Meris
-----Original Message-----
From: Judah Cohen <jcohen (at) fas(dot)harvard(dot)edu>
To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 6:08 PM
Subject: [HANASHIR:5102] Re: Kosher songs


>Kol B'Seder has sung (or at least introduced to me) two songs which deal
>with Kashrut.  The first is a spoof called "Kosher" (though I was not
>familiar with the original song), which I think was Jeff Klepper's
creation.
>Chorus lines such as: "So when you eat--meat--it's kosher // So when you
>nosh--a McIntosh--it's kosher."  Etc.  More than just silly, if I'm not
>mistaken.
>
>They also introduced a song to me called "Consider a Shrimp" by British
>Rabbi Cliff Cohen.  It's fabulous, in my opinion--a parody of "Consider
>Yourself" from the musical "Oliver!"  While I can't remember the whole
song,
>I can remember a few verses--perhaps it will jog someone else's memory?
>
>Consider a shrimp, unclean.
>Consider a prawn, something abominable.
>
>Whatever it is we eat, we treat, meat, as something with kosher feet.
>And you can try to make tidier or neater rules, but Shechita rules, okay!
>And we've no use for your [xxxxx] or [xxxx] rules, just as long as we can
>say. . .
>
>Consider a dog, unfit.
>Consider a toad, unsafe.
>And after some consideration you can say:
>Consider yourself, free from treif!
>
>Can anyone fill in the lines?
>Judah.
>
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>>From: "Meris Ruzow" <meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com>
>>To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
>>Subject: [HANASHIR:5098] Re: Kosher songs
>>Date: Mon, Jan 31, 2000, 1:47 PM
>>
>
>> There's a very funny tune on an old Kol B'Seder tape about what is traif
and
>> what is kosher.    Just a joke; wouldnl't really use it with kids but the
>> adults love it.   Great tune.
>> Meris
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Amgo (at) aol(dot)com <Amgo (at) aol(dot)com>
>> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
>> Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 1:39 PM
>> Subject: [HANASHIR:5097] Re: Kosher songs
>>
>>
>>>Regarding songs for kids about Kashrut - a winner is the one by R. Jack
>> Gabriel on his Astonishing is God" tape to the tune of the battle hymn of
>> the republic.
>>>Ami Goodman
>>>San Francisco
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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