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[HANASHIR:8761] Re: Ivri...Ivri Daber Ivrit!

This song sounds really cute, a great piece to use at camp, too. How do you learn the tune? Is it notated somewhere (with more than chords)? Recorded somewhere? Would someone sing it to me over the phone?

Devora

>From: "Micah Streiffer"
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>To:
>Subject: [HANASHIR:8760] Re: Ivri...Ivri Daber Ivrit!
>Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:21:41 -0700
>
>Here are a few more:
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>"Brrrr...It's COLD in the CAR" (kar=cold)
>"I could go out tonight, but I think I'll be much SAFER reading a BOOK." (sefer=book)
>"My ELEPHANT is sick." "Then give it a PILL.--A PILL for your ELEPHANT." (pil=elephant)
>
>There are others, but I can't think of them at the moment.
>
>Also, I think that the jingle at the end is actually "Ivri, daver Ivrit" (and not Ivrit, daber Ivrit." ) It means "You Hebrew, speak Hebrew" and it was what Ben-Yehudah's followers used to write on cards and pass out to Jews ("Hebrews") whom they heard speaking languages other then Hebrew.
>(I could be wrong about this.)
>
>Micah Streiffer
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> >>The shopping for real-estate scene: "That's a real nice HOUSE, I think I'd like to BAYIT!"
> >>The family takes a trip to the zoo scene: "WHY is there a LLAMA up your nose?"
> >>The accidental stabbing at the dinner table scene: "Oh no, there is a FORK in MAZLEG (Ma's Leg)!"
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