Our Passover Things

Our passover things

(Sung to the tune of "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music)

Cleaning and cooking and so many dishes

Out with the hametz no pasta no knishes

Fish that's gefillted

Horseradish that stings

These are a few off our Passover things.

Chorus

Matzah and karpas and chopped up haroset

Shankbones and kiddish and Yiddish neuroses

Tante who kvetches and

Uncle who sings

These are a few off our Passover things.

Chorus

Matzi and marror and trouble with pharoahs

Famines and locusts and slaves with wheelbaarrows

Matzah balls floating and

Eggshell that clings

These are a few off our Passover things.

Chorus

When the plagues strike

When the lice bite

When we’re feeling sad

We simply remember our Passover things

And then we don’t feel so bad.

haggadah Section: Introduction

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