High hoe! Time to revive this aspect of GBFOS and bring you another greatly random song, but with a twist--it's in Hebrew. Fear not, though, translation is provided by yours truly.
The first time I--and the rest of my family--heard this song, the whole car burst out with laughter after the very first verse...












"Yechezkel Ben Buzi/Sits in a Jacuzzi/And fires with an Uzi/In every direction
And his wife Tzipporah/Her mouth is like a sewer/She dances a Hora/Awfully
Very soon you will dance/The future is pink/The sons are in India/And the daughters in China What a fantasy/Soon will be Messiah/The forecaster promises/Snow and a heatwave

It's simply unthinkable/It's simply unthinkable
The country's going mad/And from this my heart bleeds
The country's under hypnosis/With no anaesthetic or narcotic
Give some Valium or Prozac/I feel bad, I'm fainting

Toto, Lotto, Payis/All of the homeless/Will clap their hands/They'll receive a million
Two thousand years have passed/Let's drink a "L'Chayim"/And meanwhile cast/An eye on Zion
The eye is viewing/The eye is crying/The eye is waiting/For the other eye
Let us all jump/Young forever/And in our heart a wound/And a fresh bruise

It's simply unthinkable/It's simply unthinkable
The country's going mad/And from this my heart bleeds
The country's under hypnosis/With no anaesthetic or narcotic
Give some Valium or Prozac/I feel bad, I'm fainting

The land of the panana/And the insanity/The land of the banana/And the red cherries
Soon's the Fast of Gedaliah/You'll all get a medallion/This is actuality/It's unacceptable"


TODAY'S BOOK: "For Mets Fans Only", by Rich Wolfe ((c) 2006)

TODAY'S WEBSITE: www.authentichistory.com/2000s/20010911/comics/01.html September 11th continues to be my biggest obsession of American History That Occurred In My Lifetime (partly because my uncle used to work at the WTC--he's fine). Here you'll find how 9/11 played out in comic books during that period.

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