Lyrics to Some of the Songs featured on the Rejuvenating Heritage Website:

Host: Michael Sherman

Hebrew / English

Hebrew [Most with English Translations]

  • Chava Alberstein's "Remez" (Signs: Chance happenings or things with meaning?)
  • Shlomo Artzi's "Yareach" (Moon: Artzi recounts the joys and hardships of his life)
  • Mati Caspi's "Eretz Tropit Yafa" (Beautiful Tropical Land: Caspi takes on Jorge Ben's Brazilian Classic)
  • Mati Caspi's "Cama Shirim Efshar L'hamtsi Bichlal" (How Many Songs are There Left to Write: apparently at least one more!)
  • Mati Caspi's "Makom Daega" (A Place to Worry)
  • Dag Nachash (The Fish Snakes)'s-"Lazuz" (Move: Israeli rap tune)
  • Arik Einstein's "Yoel Moshe Salomon" (An Homage to this Great Israeli Pioneer)
  • Arik Einstein's "San Francisco al Ha Mayim" (San Francisco by the Water: a story of Einstein's enjoyment of a vist to the west coast while missing "little Israel" all the while)
  • Aviv Geffen's "Livchot l'Cha" (To Cry to You: poignant song associated with Yitzchak Rabin's passing)
  • Gidi Gov's "Gan Segur" (The Kindergarten is Closed: very cute song originally for children)
  • Shalom Hanoch's-"Neged Ha Ruach" (Against the Wind)
  • Yehudah Poliker's "Coev Aval Pachot" (Hurts But Less)
  • Yehudit Ravitz's "Ha Yelda Hachi Yafa b'Gan" (The Prettiest Girl in the Kindergarten: How can she be sad when she's so pretty?)
  • Idan Raichel's "Im Tilech" (If you go away)
  • Shlomi Shaban's-"Arik" (Eric: He's mad with jealousy over Eric)
  • Micha Shitrit's "Smichot Ktanot" (Little Joys)
  • Yair Nitzani's-"HaShem Tamid" (Always Hashem: He's nobody's sucker)
  • Ariel Zilber's "Rootzi, Shmulik Kore Lach" (Run, Shmulik's Calling You)
  • Ariel Zilber's "Holech b'Tel" (Loafer)
  • Ariel Zilber's "Hine Anu Meuashim" (We're Desperate Here: wonderfully funny song comparing the glory days of the Bible with the troubled times of today)
  • English

  • Antithesis "Just Peace" (Strong hip hop defense of Israel)
  • Benny and the Vildachayas "Shul Time" (Wonderful irreverance!)
  • Benny and the Vildachayas "Yehudi Chofshi " (A Jew Living Free)
  • Irving Berlin's "This Years Kisses"
  • Irving Berlin's "Let's Face the Music"
  • Mark Bloom's "Chag Purim" (Wonderful Purim holiday lyrics)
  • Steve Dropkin's "Keep Our Hopes Alive"
  • Bob Dylan's "Neighborhood Bully" (a strong defense of Israel)
  • Eighteen's "B'tzelem Elohim" (In God's Image)
  • Eighteen's "Chazak" (Be Strong)
  • Dave Frishberg's "My Attorney Bernie" (A hoot of an homage to his lawyer)
  • George Gershwins's "I've Got a Crush On You"
  • George Gershwins's "They All Laughed" (check out all the "inventions" in this one)
  • George Gershwins's "They Can't Take That Away From Me"
  • Sam Glaser's "In Israel" (Love song to Israel)
  • The Gypsy Jive Band's "Eclectic Klezmer Blues" (Klezmer meets Cowboy)
  • Neal Katz's "Or Chadash" (A New Light Will Shine)
  • Jerome Kern's "A Fine Romance"
  • The Ramones's "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" (Punk Pioneers Protest Reagan's honoring of Nazi soldies)
  • Rodger's and Hart's "My Funny Valentine"
  • Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song "
  • Adam Sandler's "Chanukah Song (II) "
  • Bill Scher's Parody "All I Want to Do is Discuss Sartre With You" (to Heart's "All I want to do...")
  • Bill Scher's Parody "Fonzie" (based on "Zombie", yeah, it's about the Happy Days character, Aaay)
  • Bill Scher's Parody "Stein, Any Stein" (based on Cindy Lauper's "Time After Time")
  • Robbi Sherwin's "The Chosen"
  • The Shleps Parody "HaShem's Calendar" (based on "My Calendar Girl")
  • The Shleps Parody "Pepperoni on Your Pizza" (based on "Lipstick on Your Collar")
  • The Shleps Parody "Be a Jew Abe" (based on Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe")
  • Shlock Rock's Parody "Leaving the U.S.S.R." (to the Beatles "Back in the U.S.S.R.")
  • Shlock Rock's Parody "We've Got a Strong Desire" (to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire", entire Jewish history in 4 minutes)
  • Rob Tobias-"Walk the Bagel" (Homage to that great food item)
  • Rob Tobias-"Eight Nights" (Funky and Lovely "New" Chanukah song)
  • Kurt Weill's "Mack the Knife"
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