I Studied All Night on Shavuot (lyrics)

While looking through my email sent box, I found my emails in 2015 to a Rabbi who was organising a singing/lyrics writing event. In one of those emails, I happened upon the lyrics I wrote for a parody song I performed at the Liberal Synagogue in St John's Wood, London, UK for their Jewrovision singing event for the Jewish festival of Shavuot (2015). And here it is:

"I Studied All Night, on Shavuot" (parody on lyrics of I drove all night to the tune of I drove all night as sung by Celine Dion):

Shavuot is here 

and I’m schlepping to shul

Maybe I should have emailed first

But I was getting a miztvah in 

by coming extra early 

for torah study! uh, huh yeah! 

there’s flowers and boughs 

fruits and dairy foods 

we’re lighting the candles – shavuot is beginning! 

We stay awake all night, cos the Jews overslept,

that wasn’t alright

God wasn’t impressed

said – make it up to me

Woke the Jews from their sleep 

To give them the torah

so I stay awake to study torah all night 

In the morning we’ll hear 

the commandments being read out  

cos Moses schlepped up mt Sinai

to get hold of the torah 

the angels kicked off 

saying the torah is ours, hands off, Moses! 

But nothing would stop him

Moses answered them back:

nothing erases this covenant between us and God 

I’m studying all night, cos Moses got torah 

off the angels

I’m studying all night

and remembering 

Our covenant 

with God

but that’s alright

I’ve prayed all night ………

Musical interlude

where are the tots

God will whinge to Moses 

They are the future of my torah 

I read torah all night, on Shavuot 

but that’s alright

I’ve schlepped from shul to shul

got a hole in my shoe 

that’s not alright

I’ve prayed all night……..

on shavuot 

I’m falling asleep ……..

I need to sleep

Is that alright

I’ve prayed all night …… till fades

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