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Down at the Mediterranean
Thinking 'bout the places I might have been
A different city on the horizon
Different cars
Different bars
Different stars
Sure is good to be home again
Down at the Mediterranean
It's all I can do to keep from jumping in
Wash away my body wash away my sin
Wave goodbye
Earth and sky
If I should die
Send a message in a bottle to my next of kin
I am just another pilgrim
On the run
Something tells me I belong here
I could get along here
Down at the Mediterranean
Down at the Mediterranean
My back to the city where you just can't win
If time is money I'm a beggar's friend
Push and shove
Brotherly love
Lord above
I wonder if we'll ever be whole again
I am just another pilgrim
On the run
Something tells me I belong here
I think I'm getting stronger
Down at the Mediterranean
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I'm going walking in the deep deep forest
Wildflowers underneath the trees
Birds up high joining in the chorus
Sara Rina won't you come with me
Every stone in this creation
Inside is buzzing like a bumblebee
Telling the story of another civilization
Sara Rina won't you come with me
Sara Rina won't you come with me
Slow me down when I go too fast
Taking every moment's notice
Drink it deep before it's past
Somewhere in England 60 years ago
You first opened up your eyes to see
I was calling you from San Francisco
Sara Rina won't you come with me
Not so long ago at your suggestion
Pardon the informality
I took your hand and I popped the question
Sara Rina won't you come with me
Sara Rina won't you come with me
Wind me up when I'm slowing down
Keeping my both eyes on the horizon
Keeping my both feet on the ground
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O Jerusalem / הו ירושלים
04:35
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If I forget thee O Jerusalem
May my tongue cleave to my palate
Like Brer Rabbit in the tar
If I forget thee O Jerusalem
May my fingers stick like honey
To the strings of my guitar
If I forget thee O Jerusalem
May the fathers of my fathers
Frown and damn me for a slave
If I forget thee O Jerusalem
May the children of my children
Turn their back upon my grave
O Jerusalem
A hardened heart is hard to find
O Jerusalem
If it takes a little while
I hope you don't mind (This could take some time)
If I forget thee O Jerusalem
May my fingers lose their cunning
And my amplifier too
If I forget thee O Jerusalem
Won't you send my mind a-running
To a different point of view
If I forget thee O Jerusalem
May my vision turn to seeing
Like a diamond into coal
If I forget thee O Jerusalem
May my spirit in its darkness
See the light inside my soul
O Jerusalem...
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Rock of Zion / צור ציון
05:19
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Rock of Zion
Midnight Smoke on the horizon
Moonlight Full moon risin'
I'm running But I don't know where
Guess I'll find out If I ever get there
Master The shackles are broken
My back is busted But the gates are open
I'll be standing At the edge of the sea
I may drown there But at least I'll be free
O-o-o Rock of Zion
Sea torn asunder
O-o-o Rock of Zion
Steeds going under
O-o-o Rock of Zion
Lightning and thunder
O-o-o Rock of Zion
Glory and wonder
Midnight The tables are turning
Your houses are empty Your bridges are burning
I'm leaving This city in black
Full moon rising And I won't look back
Master Your children are dying
Your mothers are weeping Your sisters are sighing
I built these Pyramids of plenty
But you were too greedy Now your coffers are empty
O Rock of Zion...
Is this my sacred oasis
True home in the sun
Lord of the seventy faces
Please show me just one
Sunrise It must be tomorrow
Strange cloud Beckons me to follow
Off in the distance A mountain awaits
Seventy faces Seventy fates
O Rock of Zion...
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At The Roundabout
06:17
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If you go to the roundabout
At the edge of the town
You will see a little trail
That can lead you away
And in the vale of shadows
Where the barley and thistle grow
The air is strangely calm
As the winds swirl and blow
Who were the people who lived here?
What did they believe?
What did they fight for?
And did they have peace?
Then you see the hills above
With a castle as a crown
A labyrinth of shadows and light
In a land of fairytales
And it makes me wonder
Who drank from these wells
Was the water sweeter than wine?
Or tainted with some bitterness of life?
Who were the people who lived here?
What did they believe?
What did they fight for?
And did they have peace?
Here we stand in the shadow of a fantasy
Trying to measure up
But this is just an illusion, nothing is real
But it's so peaceful here
Out in the distance
Lies the fortress anew
A museum of empty shells
Of the passions we used to feel
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Donkey Called Snow White (14) כ' חשון תשנ"ד
Just out of hearing Just within sight
There rides a man on a donkey called Snow White
He's got your number He's got your name
He may not use them but he's got them just the same
I've seen him riding Over the hills
Through rusty junkyards and straight across the minefields
I saw him look once Over his shoulder
A wind came up and it got a little colder
Good King David
Walks the ramparts
He keeps his eyes and his arrows sharp
He's up at midnight
He's up till morning
Sometimes I hear him strumming on his harp - on his harp...
Down in the valley They fight it out
But they've forgotten what the fighting was about
In comes the rider Straight through the slaughter
He finds a dead man and he gives him a drink of water
He takes his number He takes his name
Suddenly you notice they are both one and the same
Then just as slowly He rides away
He shakes his head and the Hounds begin to bay
Good King David...
This crazy rider Carries a sack
Chock full of nothing strapped to the donkey's back
He keeps it hidden Under his cloak
He keeps it hidden like some kind of a private joke
Some people see him But they soon forget
He looks like every Man they've ever met
And if you see him Out on the road
You'll recognize him by the way he shifts his load
Good King David...
Just within hearing Just out of sight
There rides a man on a donkey called Snow White
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There's a fox in the chickenhouse
Run Papa run
There's a fox in the chickenhouse
Papa get your gun
There's a fox in the chickenhouse
Run Papa run
Better shoot that damn fox before he gets your last one
First little girl was a lovely young thing
Said all her prayers and Lord she could sing
First little girl was a lovely young thing
Now there's a fox in the chickenhouse and he's got her by the wing
There's a fox in the chickenhouse...
Second little girl was as precious as a child
Kind as an angel she was gentle and mild
Second little girl was as precious as a child
Now that nasty old fox 'bout to drive her stone wild
There's a fox in the chickenhouse...
Third little girl she was innocent and sweet
Cuddly as a baby she was soft and petite
Third little girl she was innocent and sweet
Now there's fox in the chickenhouse and he's hungry for meat
There's a fox in the chickenhouse...
Now look at Papa feeling guilty as sin
His three little girls never be the same again
Now look at Papa feeling guilty as sin
If he'd taught his girls right they'd never let that fox in
There's a fox in the chickenhouse...
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All of the buses are fast asleep
Here at the Tahana Merkazit
Nothing to do, nobody to meet
I'll just lay back and put up my feet
Even the janitor has hung up his broom
He's drinking tea in the janitor's room
Occasional buses wake up and stumble out
Yawning their way through Tiberian gloom
And I'm just sitting here waiting for it to appear
All of the buses are fast asleep...
The spiders head home, they've been working since nine
Doing construction work on each platform sign
The pigeons are through decorating the roof
It's back to the nest and some cheap Carmel wine
And I'm just sitting here waiting for it to appear
All of the buses are fast asleep...
Doesn't anybody take buses these days?
How are those bus drivers earning their pay?
Maybe they've all started moonlighting now
Selling shawarma down Tel Aviv way
And I'm just sitting here waiting for it to appear
All of the buses are fast asleep...
Rev up your engine, switch on your headlights
Whisk me away into this warm northern night
Take me back home to my soft squeaky bed
I'll kick off my tennies and turn out the light
And I'm still sitting here waiting for it to appear
All of the buses are fast asleep...
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Late on a summer night
A failing moon and stars so bright
The sweat and dirt are real
An ancient foe, an unspoken fear
And he gave his last full measure of devotion
In the morning of his life
And we all wonder
if we stood in his place
Would we do the same
And give our last full measure
Of devotion
Just across the deadly space
Lay the darker angels with a nameless face
He ventures out to fight
To take a stand and to take a life
And he gave...
What is a full measure of devotion
When weighed against a life
When held up to the dark
Will it shine
Or fade away in time
So we must not forget
Lest we fail the test
To give some small measure of devotion
In the corner stands an empty chair
That no one speaks to can't help but stare
With steely nerves both pure and cruel
A costly burden never paid in full
And he gave...
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Saturday / יום שביעי
02:56
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On Saturday
Gonna laugh at all the plans that went astray
Gonna invite to dinner all the hounds I held at bay
Until Saturday
All week long
I've been churning out the same old song
Until Saturday comes I just can't tell right from wrong
Until Saturday
Saturday is when I'll be with you all day
I know it's Monday but can you come out and play
On Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
Let it show
Not a thing you need to know
Ain't no place you need to go
On Saturday
Don’t walk away
When it's mother may I yes you may
We'll just talk talk talk till there's nothing left to say
On Saturday
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In the Milk and Honey Moonlight
Sing me of peaceful walks on autumn days
Sing me of quiet talks outside cafes
Show me the places where the children play
In the milk and honey moonlight
Sing me of love without dividing lines
Sing me of pilgrims bold and strangers kind
Sing me of clearer skies and greener times
In the milk and honey moonlight
And we will dance upon the sand
All along the waterline
And sing our praises to the Land
And the milk and honey light will shine
Sing me of wise men from a golden age
Sing cryptic wisdom from the woven page
The stars all see us on our sandy stage
In the milk and honey moonlight
Take me where time can't cast its heartless spell
The desert city with the ancient well
Lead me 'cross meadows where our fathers fell
In the milk and honey moonlight
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Eye On Zion / עין לציון
04:49
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Ship comes bearing refugees from war
Clothes all tattered - weary to the core
Too weak to wonder what lies next in store
Eye on Zion lead them safe to shore
Lies a soldier much too young to leave
Stands a mother helpless and bereaved
Stands a father still too stunned to grieve
Eye on Zion help them to believe
Battered people doomed to know no rest
Ten times cursed irrevocably blessed
Trembling heart still beating in its breast
Eye on Zion see them through their quest
Sacred soil fertile and alive
Precious water secret to survive
Butter in the larder honey in the hive
Eye on Zion ever may they thrive
Chosen nation glad to just exist
Day by decade longer grows the list
Those who'd conquer with an angry fist
Eye on Zion see them through the mist
Land of visions miracles and light
Land of deserts beautiful and bright
Comes the darkness shadows mark her plight
Eye on Zion see her through this night
Promised kingdom river to the sea
Holy Temple holiest city
Proud and humble, faithful fair and free
Eye on Zion ever let her be
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