[HANASHIR:1600] English for Hebrew songs:U-tsu Ei-tsa and Mi Ha-ish

[DurlKare <DurlKare...>]

We were lamenting how "no one sings these good ol' songs any more" and I
wondered whether adding some English translations might help...I may receive
flak from doing this, but there is so much English in Reform services that
sometimes the songs with English in them are better received.  Anyway, if you
find a use for these in your teaching, please use them...English translations
copyright 1998 by Karen Durlester.  (If you don't know these songs, someone
else may have to write out those dreaded notations for the list...I am unable
to do that!)

U-tsu ei-tsa...

What tomorrow brings we cannot say;
Make the most of each and every day.
Even with the best plans
It may not be in our hands
For God is the one who leads the way.

Mi Ha-ish

Where are all the people
Who love life above all else
Who pursue true peace and harmony
And believe in righteousness?

Oh, turn away from evil
And what's deceitful
And never speak ill.
Go after what is peaceful
And find the good in everything.
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And since Chanukah is on the way:

S'vi-von sov, sov, sov...

Dreidl spin, fast, fast, fast
Chanukah is here at last
Chanukah is here at last
Dreidl spin, fast, fast, fast.
Chanukah's for us to share
Wondrous miracles happened there
Wondrous miracles happened there
Chanukah's for us to share.

-Karen