{"id":126,"date":"2009-12-09T06:26:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T06:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/homeshuling\/2009\/12\/hanukkah-songs-the-great-and-not-so-great.html"},"modified":"2009-12-09T06:26:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T06:26:49","slug":"hanukkah-songs-the-great-and-not-so-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/homeshuling\/2009\/12\/hanukkah-songs-the-great-and-not-so-great.html","title":{"rendered":"Hanukkah songs – the great and the not so great"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many years ago, my brother was in an alt-country\/folk band called 5 Chinese Brothers<\/a>. Their oeuvre included a\u00a0truly wonderful hanukkah song called Age Old Story. You can listen to it here<\/a>. I posted the lyrics below. (Now he writes songs that teach vocabulary words. You can listen to those here<\/a>. Oh, he’s also cute and single<\/em>.)
\nThanks to the song’s old country gospel vibe, you might my brother had written the least Jew-y Hanukkah song ever. But you would be wrong. How can a nice Jewish boy (even one who lives in the south) compete with Orrin Hatch for that honor?
\nhttps:\/\/vimeo.com\/vimeo.com\/7971216<\/a>
\nWay back yonder in the days of the Bible
\nThere’s a story true and grave
\nAbout\u00a0a wicked king who ruled Judea
\nAnd an evil law he made
\nHe declared that the Hebrews must forsake their G-d
\nAnd worship Zeus instead
\nAnd while some obeyed, still a few brave others
\nDeclared they would rather be dead
\nThey would not bow down, they could not bow down
\nNot even their lives to save
\nFor the Lord decreed “You shall have no other
\nIf you’d live in the holy way”
\nRabbi Elezar was so well respected
\nThe king said “Here’s what we’ll do
\nYou just stand there before that statue of Zeus
\nAnd bend over to tie your shoe”
\nAnd Hannah she had seven sons
\nAnd many years before them, it’s true
\nWell, that king he tried the same trick on them
\nBut those boys would not be moved
\nCHORUS
\nYou may think it sad, this age-old story
\nTelling evil and not of good
\nBut I believe when those people went to meet their maker
\nThey were standing on the rock where Moses stood
\nAnd because the Maccabees came down from mountain
\nThe temple to liberate
\nReb Elezar and Hannah’s sons, they live on forever
\nIn the stories that we celebrate
\nCHORUS<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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