To Be A Yid
Joey Newcomb
4:11He was thinking about his Zaidy He wrote the song You never know the power of a Zaidy Look what this Zaideh did for Moshe Yess He's thinking about him What this Zaideh wanted for his future generations Givalt givalt Did I do that right My Zaidy lived with us in my parent's home He used to laugh he'd put me on his knee And he spoke about his life in Poland And he spoke but with a bitter memory And he spoke about the soldiers who would beat him They laughed at him they tore his long black coat And he spoke about a synagogue that they burnt down And the crying that was heard beneath the smoke But Zaidy made us laugh Zaidy made us sing Zaidy made a Kiddush Friday night yeah And Zaidy oh my Zaidy how I loved him so Zaidy used to teach me wrong from right But Zaidy made us laugh Zaidy made us sing Zaidy made a Kiddush Friday night And Zaidy oh my Zaidy how I loved him so Zaidy used to teach me wrong from right His eyes lit up when he would teach me Torah He taught me every line so carefully And he spoke about our slavery in Egypt And how G-d took us out and made us free But Winter went by Summer came along I went to Camp to run and play And when I came back home they said Zaidy's gone And all his books were packed and stored away I don't know how or why it came to be It happened slowly over many years We just stopped being Jewish like my Zaidy was And no one cared enough to shed a tear And many Winters went by Many summers came along And now my children sit in front of me givalt And who will be the Zaidy of my children Who will be the Zaidy if not me And who will be the Zaidy of our children Who will be the Zaidy if not we But Zaidy made us laugh Zaidy made us sing And Zaidy made a Seder Pesach Night And Zaidy oh my Zaidy how I loved him so Zaidy used to teach me wrong from right Zaidy made us laugh Zaidy made us sing And Zaidy made a Kiddush Friday Night And who will be the Zaidies of our children Who will be the Zaidies if not we L'chaim But Zaidy made us laugh You can keep going baby Zaidy made a Kiddush Friday night yeah And Zaidy oh my Zaidy how I loved him so Zaidy used to teach me wrong from right Zaidy made us laugh Zaidy made us sing Zaidy made a Kiddush Friday night oh And Zaidy oh my Zaidy how I loved him so Zaidy used to teach me wrong from right Mamesh a givalt Wait can we do that chorus one more time 1 2 3 GO Mamesh a givalt (Chatter)