Testi Journeys Medley - Yaakov Shwekey

Journeys Medley

Let me tell you about the world we’re in\nCome listen my dear children\nFor you could ask the question it ain’t no sin\nJust how did the world begin\nWho made the darkness and the light\nA million stars to shine at night\nGot them all to work just right\nHad to be Hashem\nHad to be Hashem\nMade the oceans and the fish\nCandy bars and licorice\nAll he did was make a wish\nHad to be Hashem\nNow that it’s plain and clear to see\nI’d like you to all to join with me\nAnd get the whole world to agree\nHow everything came to be\nMade the planets and the sky\nThe valley’s low and the mountains high\nAnd we’ll look in the Torah it never lies\nHad to be Hashem\nHad to be Hashem\nWho else could you ever find\nCreates souls for all mankind\nAnd furnish them with thinking minds\nOh it had to be Hashem\nIt had to be Hashem\nThe sun is going down\nit’s shining through the trees\nAnother weeks gone by\nbecome a memory\nSo throw away your hammer\nthere’s nothing left to do\nGo on home and find the gift\nthat’s waiting there for you\nOh, it’s time to say good Shabbos\ncause all your work is done\nGonna spend the day together with\nthe Holy One\nSay a special blessing on a cup\nthat’s filled with wine\nMan and his creator it’s a very special sign\nYou can spend time with your family\nyou’ll study and you’ll pray\nWhy not wait till after Shabbos\noh those nails won’t run away\nSo throw away your hammer\nthere’s nothing left to do\nGo on home and find the gift\nthat’s waiting there for you\nOh, oh, oh, oh,\nit’s time to say good Shabbos\ncause all your work is done\nGonna spend the day together with\nthe Holy One\nSay a special blessing on a cup\nthat’s filled with wine\nMan and his creator\nit’s a very special sign\nThe sky’s bright and clear\nwind’s blowing strong\nWinter has passed\nnow the sun’s shining proud\nWhat a glorious day to send up a kite\nTo dance and to soar high over the clouds\nThrough the traffic and noise\nI ran to the park\nAn island surrounded with castles of stone\nWith my kite and a spool\nof clear plastic line\nWe journeyed together\na long way from home\nLittle kite tell me for I can not fly\nCan you see distant oceans\nand mountains so high\nBut most of all tell me for I cannot see\nIs there G-d in heaven\ndoes he know of me?\nWell someone passed by\nand looked at me strange\nHe asked me what you doing\non this day so fair\nFlying a kite well how could that be\nCan’t you see little boy\nthere’s nothing up there\nLittle kite tell me why I’ve been so blind\nUsing my eyes in the place of my mind\nFor though I can’t see you\nI do understand\nYou’re tuggin' and pullin'\nthe string in my hand\nYou’re tuggin' and pullin'\nthe string in my hand\nWe grew up together\nin New York City\nOh how the time has flown by\nWe were inseparable\ncloser than brothers\nMy best friend Sammy and I\nWe’d play by the oak tree\nin back of my house\nTossing a ball to and fro\nEach one of us dreaming\npretending to be\nThe great Joe DiMaggio\nOne day we each bought\na package of Topp’s\nAnd opened them under the tree\nLook Sam I’ve got Jo DiMaggio’s card\nAnd he was so jealous of me\nI lovingly hid it\ndeep inside my drawer\nWhere it would be safe as can be\nAnd I vowed I would keep it\nforever and ever\nIt was so precious to me\nIt was so very precious to me\nI’d read in the papers\nfrom time to time\nOf events in the life of my friend\nHe became Rosh Yeshiva\nof our old school\nAnd now was a leader of men\nBut there was a fire\nthat ravaged his school\nI knew it just might break his heart\nSo I reached in my drawer\nand I said my goodbyes\nTo the great Joe DiMaggio’s card\nOne day my grandson came home from Yeshiva\nHolding a card that was new\n«Look Zeide, Reb Shmuel is one of the Gedolim\nAnd I’m giving his card to you»\nI lovingly hid it deep in my drawer\nWhere it would be safe as can be\nAnd I vowed I would keep it forever and ever\nIt is so precious to me\n…it is so very precious to me\nI’m a very tired old and worn out man\nand my eyes have long been blind\nMost things that people say to me\njust seem to slip my mind\nOh, but the suffering and painful times\nthat were in years long gone\nAre still as clear upon my memory\nas the numbers on my arm\nWhat will become of all the memories\nAre they to scatter\nwith the dust in the breeze\nWho will stand before the world\nknowing what to say\nWhen the very last survivor\nfades away…\nWhat will become of all the memories\nAre they to scatter\nwith the dust in the breeze\nAnd who will stand before a world\nthat now wishes to deny\nWill they believe in someone\nwho never heard the cries\nThere is nothing I can say or do\nto make things change\nTime has a way of passing by so fast\nLike a fleeting shadow\nno one will recall\nThe faces of the past\nWhat will become of all the memories\nAre they to scatter\nwith the dust in the breeze\nYet one thought gives me comfort\nthat’s all that I have left\nI know that G-d in heaven\nwon’t forget\nWe danced round and round in circles\nas if the world had done no wrong\nFrom evening until morning\nfilling up the Shul with song\nThough we had no Sifrei Torah\nto clutch close to our arms\nInstead we held those children\nAm Yisroel Chai\nWe danced round and round in circles\nas if the world had done no wrong\nFrom evening until morning\nfilling up the Shul with song\nThough we had no Sifrei Torah\nto clutch close to our arms\nInstead we held those children\nThe Jewish people will live on\nThe Jewish people will live on\nYou had searched so long\nfor the answers and the proof\nAnd they said you’ll find it here\nwith promises of truth\nBut the long white robes\nand the chanting in the streets\nIt left you cold\nyour soul still had to seek\nWhat you’re looking for\nis right there at your door\nBelieve me when I tell you friend\nyou couldn’t ask for more\nWhat your heart has known\nis that there is no place like home\nSo come on back\noh, you’ll never be alone\nNow you can stand up straight and tall\nbecause you’re where you want to be\nNo one had it strong as steel\nyour faith has set you free\nAnd as you gaze up at that simple wall\nyour hand up upon a stone\nYou can say the journeys over I am home\nWhat you’re looking for\nis right there at your door\nBelieve me when I tell you friend\nyou couldn’t ask for more\nWhat your heart has known\nis that there is no place like home\nSo come on back\noh, you’ll never be alone\nWhat you’re looking for\nis right there at your door\nBelieve me when I tell you friend\nyou couldn’t ask for more\nWhat your heart has known\nis that there is no place like home\nSo come on back,\nI said, come on back\noh, you’ll never be alone\nNo, no, never be alone\nNo, no, never be alone!