Ari Lesser - Purim Poetry Slam

Connect with me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arithemc Download this song at: http://arithemc.bandcamp.com/track/purim-poetry-slam-2 Lyrics: Ari Lesser 2/17/13 This song goes out to Ahmadinejad The Jews don't fear you, we fear God We don't give damn, about your evil plans Cause no man can stand up against God's hand Not first to curse us, won't be the last And if I were you a would learn from the past Many came before you to do us wrong But they're all long gone and we still stand strong In ancient Iran lived I man named Haman Who rose in the capital of Shushan When he walked down the street every man he would meet Was commanded to bow to the ground at his feet But there was one guy, named Mordechai A Jew who served only God Most High Day after day, he refused to obey So Haman decided to make him pay But it wasn't enough just to kill one man Instead he devised a grand master plan And persuaded the king to kill every Jew From the land Cush all the way Hodu Drew random lots to determine the date Put our people's lives in the hands of fate And it fell on the thirteenth day of Adar They would slay every Jew both near and far When we heard the news we wept and fasted Sackcloth and ashes spread through the masses We humbled our hearts all of Yisrael Prayed that the wicked Haman would fail This song goes out to Ahmadinejad The Jews don't fear you, we fear God We don't give damn, about your evil plans Cause no man can stand up against God's hand Not first to curse us, won't be the last And if I were you a would learn from the past Many came before you to do us wrong But they're all long gone and we still stand strong Haman just could not wait for the date That the Jewish people would meet their fate Cause every day he saw Mordechai at the gate And his heart was filled with so much hate When he complained to his friends and his wife They told Haman, "Just take that Jew's life" So he built a gallows fifty amos high And tried to have the king, hang Mordechai But the queen secretly turned out to be A girl from a nice Jewish family So she came in to the king, told him That someone was trying to wipe out her kin Enraged anyone would threaten the life Of those close to the queen he chose as a wife The king asked her, "Who's behind this plan?" She said, "This wicked Haman is the man!" He trembled in terror he lost control He begged queen Esther to spare his soul But the king decided Haman must die On the gallows that he had made for Mordechai This song goes out to Ahmadinejad The Jews don't fear you, we fear God We don't give damn, about your evil plans Cause no man can stand up against God's hand Not first to curse us, won't be the last And if I were you a would learn from the past Many came before you to do us wrong But they're all long gone and we still stand strong President of Iran your just like Haman But instead of the gallows you're building a bomb You want to see Mordechai's family dead But your wickedness'll drop down on your own head Open your ears, we won't disappear Been here three thousand eight hundred years We were slaves to Pharaoh, but God set us free And tossed the Egyptians in the Red Sea The wicked Balak and Bilaam tried messing With us, but their curse turn into a blessing Canaanites tried to fight us but all Of them had to fall like Jericho's walls Goliath the Philistine talked a lot Before he got knocked him out with a slingshot Assyrians conquered every other land But they ran when they came up against God's hand Babylon took us into captivity But we're back, they been gone since BCE And Haman, who decreed every Jew should die Got hanged on the gallows he made for Mordechai Our enemies fade but we still exist Do you really want to add your name to the list? You've warned if you don't proceed with caution We'll name a food after you like Hamantaschen This song goes out to Ahmadinejad The Jews don't fear you, we fear God We don't give damn, about your evil plans Cause no man can stand up against God's hand Not first to curse us, won't be the last And if I were you a would learn from the past Many came before you to do us wrong But they're all long gone and we still stand strong