![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Twas the night before Hanukkah and all over the place There was noise, there was kvetching Soch ah disgrace! ![]() The Kinderlach, sleeping, uneasily felt The chocolate rush from the Hanukkah gelt ![]() so stuffed with latkes, I stretched the elastic which held up my gatchkes.
(and it has a steep pitch) A fat alte kakker was making a kvitsch. ![]() ![]() ![]() and I ran to the door, Was it a bandeet, or only a schnorrer?
he had eight ferdelach, And called them by name as he gave a gebrach: "On Moishe, ![]() On Mendel, on Shmendrik, on Feivush, on Ham; My kidneys are kvelling; do you give a damn?"
and payyes to boot, And to keep out the cold, he had such a nice suit! ![]() ![]() ![]() I could tell at a glance, But the cut was okay, and so were the pants.
a real groisser goof, So I yelled out, "Meshuggener! Get off from Mein roof!" ![]() He jumped down and said as he shook hands with me, "Max Klaus is the name. You have maybe some tea?"
while he shook his white mop, Mutt'ring, "Always the same thing, They're dreying my kopp!" ![]() ![]() ![]() Outremont to Reginek, Every shmo in the world hakks meir a cheinik!
and challah with schmaltz, And from Brooklyn alone, the back pain, gevaltz!" ![]() and we spun the old dreydels, (He took all of my money, and one of my kanidels)
a living I make, But I'm getting too old for this Hanukkah fake; ![]() ![]() ![]() how my pacemaker dings? For two cents I'd quit, and move to Palm Springs?"
as he fled mit a lacht, "Gut Yontiff to All, Vey is Mir, Such a Nacht!" c/o LLMINTZ & Frends ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ur Frend Andy Making Things A Little Better |