What Is Jewish Music? [Was Re: Puff}

[George Robinson <GRComm...>]

Khaverim --

Let's not start THAT again.

George Robinson




Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky wrote:
> 
> This was a popular song on WEVD radio way back when - either early eighties 
> or late seventies.  It's definitely Jewish music.
> 
> Reyzl
> 
> ----------
> From:  Bloom [SMTP:bloom (at) gis(dot)net]
> Sent:  Thursday, February 10, 2000 11:08 PM
> To:  World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject:  Puff
> 
> I got this from someone who said that he used to hear this sung in the
> kosher kitchen when he was in college.  It is Jewish music, in a sense.  I
> hope some of you enjoy it.
> 
> Jacob Bloom
> 
> Puff, The Kosher Dragon
> 
> CHORUS
> Puff, the kosher Dragon
> Lived in Palestine
> And frolicked in the synagogue
> And drank Shapiro's wine.
> Little Rabbi Goldberg
> Loved that kosher Puff
> And fed him lox and matzoh balls
> And other kosher stuff.
> 
> Then one day it happened
> Puff was eating pork,
> And little Rabbi Goldberg
> Took that dragon for a walk.
> Gently he explained that
> Dragons don't eat meat
> That comes from little piggies that
> Have little dirty feet.
> 
> CHORUS
> 
> Puff became bar mitzvahed
> Put on tefillin every day.
> Wrapped up in his tallis, oh
> That's the way he'd pray.
> He said bracha before eating,
> He bentsched after every meal.
> Imagine how religious
> It made that dragon feel.
> 
> CHORUS
> 

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