[HANASHIR:12425] Re: Noah Verse

[Dr. Alan Mason <dralanmason...>]

Thank you for recognizing the late Rabbi Chaim Stern for penning the lyrics 
to "This Is Very Good."  Rabbi Stern spent the last few weeks of his life as 
Senior Rabbi at my Temple, Temple Israel in Miami, Florida.  He introduced 
us to this song, and we use it on Yom Kippur afternoon.  We also sing it in 
Spanish during our monthly Spanish Kabbalat Shabbat.  The Musical Director 
at St. Patrick's Catholic Cathedral in Miami Beach is now also using this 
song in her liturgy.

Dr. Alan Mason
Temple Israel
Miami, Florida


----Original Message Follows----
From: Jeff Klepper <jeffklepper (at) yahoo(dot)com>
Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
To: <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Subject: [HANASHIR:12424] Re: Noah Verse
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 13:43:41 -0400

 > In The Complete Shireinu I find Jeff Klepper's great "When God Made the
 > World".  Other people have added 2 verses about Noah and about ecological
 > awareness to this song, and these verses do not appear in The Complete
 > Shireinu.  I'd love to sing all 3 verses next week for Parshat Noah and 
would
 > appreciate if someone could email me the lyrics to verses 2 & 3.  Thanks
 > thanks thanks!!!

(Rabbi) Jeff Salkin and I wrote one Noah verse, as follows:

God said to Noah, the skies are getting dark
The rains are gonna come, so go and build an ark
Gather all the animals and put them all in pairs
Tigers and bears, sparrows hawks and apes

So Noah and his family were safe and dry,
as rain came down from the sky
And they said:

40 days of rain, 40 days of rain
Man, woman and child will live again
40 days of rain, 40 days of rain
Man, woman and child will live again

This is recorded on the A.R.E. tape called Bible People.

And for the record, the original "This Is Very Good" lyrics were penned by
the late Rabbi Chaim Stern.

Jeff Klepper





Alan Mason
Doctor of Musical Arts
Pi Kappa Lambda


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