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The Jewish Chipmunk Song (Moshiach Don't Be Late)

from Have Yourself Another COVID Christmas by Sunday Comes Afterwards

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As you may have noticed on my last holiday EP, I enjoy taking major-key songs and transposing them to minor to turn them into Jewish standards. I asked myself, could this be done with "The Chipmunk Song"? And if so, what could it be about? The original theme of wanting material goods is generally alien to Jewish music...but longing for the Messiah and the End of Days is an ever-popular song topic.

It's a bit disturbing how well this works.

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The End of Days is drawing near
Time for judgment, awe, and fear.
We’ve been good, but we can’t last,
Please, Moshiach, hurry fast!

Don’t need presents from my mum;
Me, I want the World to Come!
We can hardly stand the wait,
Moshiach, don’t be late.

“That was really nice!”
“Thanks, Achiezer! That means a lot, coming from you.”
“Thanks for asking me to join you!”
“[sigh] To be honest...I’m having second thoughts about all this?”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Oh, not about asking you, you're great! But this song. What am I trying to do here? Is this supposed to be funny? Is it heartfelt? Is it sacrilege? Is it just an exercise in audio engineering?”
“Oh, get over yourself!”
“What?”
“This is a cute little song parody, and you are way overthinking it!”
“I guess…”
“I know. Now shut up and let me show you how it's really done!”

The End of Days is drawing near
Time for judgment, awe, and fear.
We’ve been good, but we can’t last,
Please, Moshiach, hurry fast!

Don’t need presents from my mum;
Me, I want the World to Come!
We can hardly stand the wait,
Moshiach, don’t be late.

We can hardly stand the wait,
Moshiach, don’t be late.

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from Have Yourself Another COVID Christmas, released November 28, 2021

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Sunday Comes Afterwards Jersey City, New Jersey

Stevonnie Ross (they/them) is yet another geeky, ukulele-playing, folk/pop singer/songwriter.

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