[HANASHIR:2034] Re: HANASHIR digest 409

[Joanna Selznick Dulkin <joanna...>]

Hi all,
Here it is, as promised, the complete, updated, categorized list of Dreidel
Verses: I have sent it to you as an attachment file, and also posted it in
this e-mail if you have trouble converting the attachment.
Enjoy!
-Joanna Selznick Dulkin

I HAVE A LITTLE DREIDEL - The New Verses

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of clay,
And when it's dry and ready, then dreidel I shall play!

FOOD AND SUCH
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of bread,
It looked so very yummy, I ate it up instead!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of pasta
It got all tangled in my hair, and now they call me "rasta"

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of gum,
And when I tried to spin it, it stuck to my thumb!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of egg,
I dropped it on the floor, and the yolk spun down my leg!

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of lox
It tastes good on a bagel, but it smells worse than my socks

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of meat
I can't stand to be near it -- it smells just like my feet

I had a little dreydl, I made it out of meat
Forget about the spinning, let's all sit down and eat

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of latkes,
I put it on the mantel, with all my other chatchkas!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of ice
It melted when I spun it, that wasn't very nice!

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of shmaltz
it don't make healthy eatin' but that dreidle sure can waltz

I have a little dreidl, I made it from gefilte fish
My mother served it for Shabbat, but it spun right off my dish!

I had a little dreidl, I made it out of a Reese's peanut butter cup
I never got to play with it, because I ate it up!

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of broccoli,
And when it's dry and ready, I'll feed it to my doggie!

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of rice
It wasn't great for spinning, but it tasted rather nice

I have a little dreidle, I made it from a chip
and when I tried to spin it, it jumped into the dip

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of Jelly beans.
And when I tried to spin it, it blew to smithereens.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of spice,
And when I went to spin it, it smelled really nice.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of pickles,
And when I put it on my hand, it always spins and tickles.

FAMILIAR OBJECTS
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of pencil,
And when I tried to spin it, it made a circle stencil!

I had a little dreydl, I made it from a broom
I think I'll try to talk it into cleaning up my room

I have a little dreidel, it's made out of a shoe,
It smells a little funny, but then what can you do?

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of pearls,
I showed it to my friends, it's the envy of the girls!

I had a little dreydl, I made it from a guitar
And if it's not too heavy, I will put it in my car.

I have a little dreidle, it's made out of guitars,
I put it in a rocket, and it blasted off to Mars!

OTHER MATERIALS
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of glass,
My mom says I can spin it, but only on the grass!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of fur,
It was warm and cuddly, and the spinning made it purr!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of plastic
I put a gimel on every side, that dreidel is fantastic!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of soap
I carved a shin on every side, why am I such a dope?

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of glue
The baby tried to spin it, and now she's spinning too!

I have a little dreidel, I made it from cement
And now our lovely hardwood floor has a nasty dent

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of light,
But for some strange reason, it only works at night.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of cloth,
I put it in the closet, it got eaten by a moth!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of bubbles,
But whenever I spin it, I can only see in doubles.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of leather,
And when I throw it in the air, it grows a little feather.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of wood,
I set it on fire, then it didn't spin so good.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of wood,
My little brother ate it, he thought it tasted good.

I have a little dreidel, I made it from a pole,
And when I went to spin it, it dug a real deep hole.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of a road.
And when I tried to spin it, it smashed a little toad.

I have a little dreidel, I spun it on a well,
And what it landed on, I just couldn't tell.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of plutonium,
And when it got to China, it caused a pandemonium.

METALS
I have a little dreidl, I made it out of metal
And if it doesn't spin at all, I'll use it for a kettle!

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of brass
I brought it in to Sunday school and showed it to my class

Yesh li sevivon katan, asui mizahav
Hu matana me-abba, bo, n'sachek achshav

NATURAL PHENOMENA
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of snow
I baked it in the oven, hey, where'd my dreidel go?

I have a little dreidel, I carved it from a log
And when I threw it on the floor it nearly killed the dog

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of fire,
I tried to tell my mommy, she thought I was a liar!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of ashes,
And when I go to spin it, it always smashes.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of schmutz,
When I went to spin it, it turned into a kibbutz.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of dirt,
And when I tried to spin it, I got a dirty shirt!

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of straw,
And when I went to spin it, it broke the speeding law.

I have a little dreidel, I made if from a stone,
A little doggie ate it, he thought it was a bone.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of string,
And when I went to spin it, it began to sing.

I had a little dreidel, I made it from a rock.
But when I tried to spin it, it turned into a block.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of hair.
When I tried to spin it, it was just barely there.

I had a little dreidel, I made it out of dust.
But when I tried to spin it, it blew away with a gust.

I have a little dreidel, I made it out of mud.
And when I tried to spin it, it went down with a thud.

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of mud
And when I tried to spin it, I found it was a dud

I had a little dreidle, I made it out of sand,
But when I went to spin it, it crumbled in my hand.

I had a little dreydl, I made it from a bush
But, when I tried to lift it, it knocked me on my tush

I had a little dreidle, I made it out of air,
but when I went to spin it, it wasn't even there!

TECHNOLOGY
I have a little dreidl, I made it on my pc
It's really fun to spin it in virtual reality.

I made a little dreidle in virtual reality.
If you wear the right headgear, it's there for you to see.

CATEGORIZING THE UNCATEGORIZABLE:
FOREIGN, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND GOYISCHE DREIDELS
I had a little Driedle, it came from the UK.
It wrote a little poem, and then it shied away.

I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay,
Said a Kabbalistic blessing, and it got up and walked away.

I have a little dreidle, I made it in my mind,
my imaginary dreidle is very hard to find.

I have a little dreydle, I made it for my shiksa
She heard it was for spinning, so she put it in the mixer

ADULTS-ONLY VERSES (Not recommended for Hebrew school use!)
I have a little dreidel, I made it out of gin
That dreidel wouldn't turn, but the room began to spin

I have a little dreidle, I made it out of pot
and when it started spinning, I just sat and stared at it a lot

I had a little dreidle, I made it out of latke.
I left it on the shelf and it turned into vodka.

I have a little dreidle, it's down here in my pants
And when I spin it properly, you should see my dreidle dance

-Compiled and updated December 1998 by Joanna Selznick Dulkin

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