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Mordechai (What A Guy​!​)

from My Yiddish Swing by The Jews Brothers Band

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Mordechai was a Benjamite born in old Jerusalem
He fought against the Persians but the Persians were too strong
They wasted the city and when the Persians captured him
Mordechai was carted off to Babylon
He had a niece she was an orphan
So he raised her as his own
He changed her name to Esther
Because he had a dream
One day she would share the thro-o-o-one

Ch.
Mordechai Mordechai what a guy! (4x)

The mighty king of Persia was Ahashverus
He’d divorced his wife and so he needed a new bride
And so they organised a national beauty contest
Girls turned up from far and wide
When Mordechai heard about the contest
He said “Esther, you must do this.
Get an entry form
But when you meet the king
Never ever tell him that you’re Jew-ew-ew-ish”

Now every contestant had one year’s beauty treatment
And one by one they went to see the king
When it was Esther’s turn the king was delighted
She was the sweetest thing he’d ever seen
He made Esther queen of Persia
And Mordechai’s dream came true
She always kept
The promise to her uncle
Nobody knew she was a Jew-ew-ew-ew

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from My Yiddish Swing, released January 1, 2000

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The Jews Brothers Band Auckland, New Zealand

Twenty years ago, inspired by a klezmer tune playing on an Auckland café’s stereo, Hershal Herscher picked up his accordion and started playing the music his grandfather Harry had brought to New York from the Ukraine.

The rhythm he was pumping out acted like a magnet on three musician friends who were in the caf that day. From that nucleus The Jews Brothers Band was born.
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