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Kal Winer
INTRODUCTION
Pesach-time
Tell Me Why We Meet Tonight
Where Have Our Haggadahs Gone?
Fifty Ways to Lead Your Seder
This Seder's Made for You and Me
KADDESH: SANCTIFICATION
First Cup of Wine
RACHTZAH: WASH
Wash Wash Wash Your Hands
HALLEL: PRAISE
Fourth Cup of Wine
Manischewitz Medley
NIRTZAH: CLOSING
Next Year, Next Year
Jerusalem This Year
S-E-D-E-R
Kal Winer • swingingseder@gmail.com
About This Seder
I love the Passover Seder, and I am always on the lookout for new pieces to
include that will expand the joy and richness of the celebration. Years ago, I started
writing Passover lyrics to well-known tunes; I wanted to add humor and freshness, to
keep everyone—young and old—more involved and awake, and to give us all more time
to bond together by singing together. Eventually, I had enough songs to cover every
Seder ritual. Some rituals have several songs so you get to choose which ones best fit
your Seder.
You can use a few songs each year to spice up your Seder, or you can insert a
song when the group energy starts to flag. Adventurous Seder makers can use A
S(w)inging Seder as the sole (or main) Haggadah for the evening. If you try this, I
suggest mixing up the sound by using solos, duets, and small groups for different songs
to vary the texture. Some songs (for example, “The Plagues Are Coming”) can be sung
with different small groups taking turns singing different verses.
I could never have gotten this done without the extraordinary help of my wife,
Linda, who typed the lyrics and wrestled our computer into submission; and the support
of Rabbi Alissa Wise, who encouraged me to do it and helped me avoid wandering in
the technology desert for forty years.
Kal Winer
Burkettville, Maine
2011
Pesach-time
To: Summertime
Pesach-time
There’s no bread on the table
Guests arriving’
And the feelings run high
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There’s the first, which stands for “BRING YOU OUT” (3X)
from old Egypt, from old Egypt.
Eating Parsley
To: Scotland’s Burning (a round)
We’re all
We’re all a mix
We’re a mix of many children (4x)
We’re a mix (2x)
Of many different kinds of kids.
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Pharaoh, Phar-ar-ar-oh
Pharaoh says we cannot go home
Fair, it’s not fair, it’s not fair, it’s not fair
It’s not fair, it’s not fair-air-air-o
Pharaoh says we cannot go home
—continued—
—continued—
Ancestors Would
To: Norwegian Wood
CHORUS:
Oh what a beautiful matzah
Oh what a flat piece of bread
Its whole life it’s never risen
Reminds us that slavery’s not dead.
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Does your charoset taste sweet and give your mouth a treat?
Does it make you want to sing, does it make you want to eat?
Do you slather it on matzah just to drive yourself nuts-ah?
Does your charoset taste sweet?
Can you put ‘em all together, cuz old Hillel says it’s better?
Mix the sweet and the bitter, make his sandwich to the letter?
Now eat the whole creation, is its taste abomination?
McHillel to go.
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Note: obviously this is written for families where the ritual is for the kids to hide the
Afikomen and for the adults to try to find it. For those families who do it the other way
around, they need their own version.
Prophet Elijah enters the homes where the Seders stretch into the night
It’s like a dream.
Brings us his message: “Kids, open hearts to your parents, parents be kind.
Live without strife.”
Prophet Elijah, conscience of Jews who returns to mark peace in the world
“It’s up to you.
Actions can do it, you can make peace in your homes, and your work, and your school.
Don’t live like fools.”
Next year
Next year
Next year
Next year
In Jerusalem
We’ll gather
Seder
Once again
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
Freedom
In Jerusalem
To gather
Seder
Once again
Freedom
Freedom
To be free’s a blessing
We’re all free to meet again
CHORUS: May each one live a life that’s free this year
Life that’s free this year, life that’s free this year
May each one build their Jerusalem this year
Jerusalem this year, Jerusalem this year
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