From Fun with Jewish Holiday Songs by Sylvia Rouss, these are original lyrics set to traditional music that celebrate the holiday of Purim. I hope that children and their parents, students and their teachers, and campers and their counselors will enjoy these songs. Sylvia
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Purim Day (This Old Man)
Purim day, oh what fun!
Wave your groggers everyone.
Join the parade and make a lot of noise.
Purim’s fun for girls and boys.
Purim day, oh what fun!
Wear your costumes everyone.
Bring your mask and you will see,
How much fun Purim can be.
Purim day, oh what fun!
Bake some hamantashen everyone.
Fill a basket for your friends.
Wish Purim would never end.
Hamantashen (Frere Jacque)
Hamantashen, hamantashen,
With corners three, with corners three.
Put filling in the middle.
Fold and pinch a little.
One, two, three. One, two, three.
Purim Time (Mary had a Little Lamb)
Purim time is here at last, here at last, here at last, here at last.
Purim time is here at last. Come and join the fun!
Bring your costume and your mask, and your mask, and your mask.
Bring your costume and your mask. Come and join the fun!
Shake your groggers all around, all around, all around.
Shake your groggers all around. Come and join the fun!
Eat some hamantashen, they’re so good, they’re so good, they’re so good.
Eat some hamantashen they’re so good. Come and join the fun!
Let’s All Go to Shushan (Take Me Out to the Ballgame)
Let’s all go to Shushan.
Let’s all have some fun.
Bring a mask to hide your eyes.
Who you are will be a surprise.
For its rash, rash, rash, go the groggers,
Whenever you hear Haman’s name.
So hurry and join in the fun.
You’ll be glad you came.
Oh, We’re on Our Way to Shushan (She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain)
Oh, we’re on our way to Shushan, here we come. (say: CAN’T WAIT!)
Oh, we’re on our way to Shushan, here we come. (say: CAN’T WAIT!
Oh, we’re on our way to Shushan, oh we’re on our way to Shushan,
Oh, we’re on our way to Shushan, here we come. (say: CAN’T WAIT!)
We’ll be wearing our costumes when we come. (say: GUESS WHO?)
We’ll be wearing our costumes when we come. (say: GUESS WHO?)
We’ll be wearing our costumes, we’ll be wearing our costumes,
We’ll be wearing our costumes when we come. (say: GUESS WHO?)
We’ll be bringing our groggers when we come. (say: RASH! RASH!)
We’ll be bringing our groggers when we come. (say: RASH! RASH!)
We’ll be bringing our groggers, we’ll be bringing our groggers,
We’ll be bringing our groggers when we come. (say: RASH! RASH!)
We’ll be reading the Megillah when we come. (say: HOO-RAY!)
We’ll be reading the Megillah when we come. (say: HOO-RAY!)
We’ll be reading the Megillah, we’ll be reading the Megillah,
We’ll be reading the Megillah when we come. (say: HOO-RAY!)
We’ll be eating hamantashen when we come. (say: YUM! YUM!)
We’ll be eating hamantashen when we come. (say: YUM! YUM!)
We’ll be eating hamantashen, we’ll be eating hamantashen,
We’ll be eating hamantashen when we come. (say: YUM! YUM!)
Oh, we’ll have a Purim party when we come. (say: YIPPEE!)
Oh, we’ll have a Purim party when we come. (say: YIPPEE!)
Oh, we’ll have a Purim party, oh we’ll have a Purim Party,
Oh, we’ll have a Purim party when we come. (say: YIPPEE!)
Purim Players (Frere Jacque)
Ahashverosh, Ahashverosh,
Was the king, was the king.
He wore the crown,
Of Shushan Town,
Ahashverosh, Ahashverosh.
Pretty Esther, pretty Esther,
Was the queen, was the queen.
She was very brave,
The Jews she helped to save.
Pretty Esther, pretty Esther.
Loyal Mordechai, loyal Mordechai,
Esther’s uncle, Esther’s uncle.
He was a good Jew,
Who saved the king’s life too.
Loyal Mordechai, loyal Mordechai.
Wicked Haman, Wicked Haman,
Was so mean, was so mean.
He tried to hurt the Jews,
But he was the one to lose.
Wicked Haman, wicked Haman.
Baking Hamantashen (Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush)
Let’s all bake some hamantashen, hamantashen, hamantashen,
Let’s all bake some hamantashen. Then we’ll eat them up
This is the way we mix the dough, mix the dough, mix the dough.
This is the way we mix the dough when we make hamantashen
This is the way we roll the dough, roll the dough, roll the dough.
This is the way we roll the dough when we make hamantashen.
This is the way we cut the circles, cut the circles, cut the circles.
This is the way we cut the circles when we make hamantashen.
This is the way we spoon on filling, spoon on the filling, spoon on the filling.
This is the way we spoon on the filling when we make hamantashen.
This is the way we pinch three corners, pinch three corners, pinch three corners.
This is the way we pinch three corners when we make hamantashen.
Now it’s time for them to bake, them to bake, them to bake.
Now it’s time for them to bake. We’re making hamantashen.
This is the way we eat them up, eat them up, eat them up.
This is the way we eat them up, our yummy hamantashen.