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Текст песни We Got A Strong Desire

Adam, Eve, Abel, Cain, Noah's Ark, Flood of Rain,
Terach, Idols, Haran dies, Abraham leaves home.
Sarah, Isaac, Brit Milah, Angels visit, Akeida,
War of Kings, Salty Wife, Rescue in Sodom.

Yitzchak, Rivkah, Twins inside, Jacob, Birthright, Isaac's Blind,
Stolen Blessing, Esav Cried, Angel's ladder to the sky.
Rachel's beauty, Yaakov's hitched, Lavan, Leah, daughter switched,
Four Wives, twelve Tribes, Near Beit Lechem, Rachel Dies.

Chorus:We've got a strong desire,
We are always yearning for the Torah's Learning.
We've got a strong desire,
We will stay united, never be divided.

Colored Coat, Brothers hate, Sold to Egypt, Head of State,
Famine, grain, Goblet Test, Brothers Reunite.
New King, Jews are slaves, Moshe's born, princess saves,
Yitro's daughters, burning bush, Aaron joins the fight.
Ten Plagues, Jews free, Splitting of the Red Sea,
Amalek, Torah given, Golden Calf Jews Forgiven,
Korach, forty years, Balak, Bilaam, Pinchas spears.
Moshe Leaves, Jews Grieve, Joshua's the new chief.

Chorus

Jordan river, Jericho, Walls fall, Shofar Blow,
Devorah, Shimshon, Shmuel, Saul, David, Stone, Goliath Fall.
Solomon, Temple built, Civil war, blood spilt,
Eliyahu, Elisha, Yishayahu, Yirmiyah.

Purim, Esther, Mordechai, Beit Hamikdosh second time,
Antiochos, bad decrees, Judah and the Macabees.
Temple Two burnt down, Exile all around,
Shamai, Hillel, Betar, Bar Kochva, Akiva's star.

Chorus

Mishna, Gemara, Karai, Rav Yehuda Hanasi,
Rashi, Rabbeinu Tam, Baalei Tosfot, Rashbam.
Rambam, Sefer Mada, Inquisition, Torquemada,
Baal Shem Tov, Kuzari, Vilna Gaon, Shabtai Zvi.
Maharal, Libelists, Golem, Prague, Kabbalists,
Chmelnitzky, Shtetl life, Haskalah, Internal Strife.

Chorus

Hitler, Aushwitz, Holocaust, Krystalnacht, Six Million lost,
Herzl, Balfour, Promised Land, UNVote, Partition Plan.
Nurenberg, Ben Gurion, Six Day War, Moshe Dayan,
Golda Meir, Wall Reclaimed, Yom Kippur, Entebbe Raid.
Olympics, Munich, Athletes shot, Carter, Begin and Sadat.
Iron Curtain, Lebanon, Scharansky Free, Rav Moshe Gone,
Jews from Ethiopia, Glastnost, Russian Yeshiva,
Intifada, We Won't Bow, We Want Moshiach Now!!