HAMAN:
How does a Hebrew, Jewish,
son of Je-ru-sa-lem
And his cousin-destined
Esther the fetching one,
To be the new Persian queen by Adonai encrusted all in diamond
Turn out to be two heroes
and with rye bread?
KING AHASUARUS:
The twelve tribes had
Left Mitzrayim,
And got a Bible
On top of Sinai,
our Moses saw an eyeful
Forty days he was liable
the Hebrews weren’t viable
By the end, with Aaron
they had built a golden idol
HAGAI:
And every day while slaves the Pharaoh’s daughter raised Moses
And In the split Reed Sea, the water up to their noses
On sand, they were walking on their baking backs their dough is
Now matzah and ready to beg, steal, borrow: Afikomizz
ESTHER:
Babylonians came,
and devastation reigned
Our Temple was destroyed bricks dripping down the drain
Four hundred years stood the Temple, erected it once again
But before we built the twain,
in Babylon we’re in pain
HAMAN:
Well this guy Mordechai
he said exile is insane, man
Went to central Persia
with his cousin to a strange land
To the city Shushan, Esther hid from whence she came and
The world soon will know your names! What’s your names, man?
ESTHER & MORDECHAI:
Queen Esther and Mordechai
Our names are Queen Esther and Mordechai
And there’s a lot of sand, my skin is dry
But it’s our fate, just you wait
HAGAI:
The king was sad, his Vashti split,
sick of it lacked a queen
A year later, hired Haman as his second him so mean
Brain dead, sittin’ on his big throne
no ring tone
COMPANY:
(And Esther became queen, with a throne of her own)
HAGAI and (COMPANY):
Mordechai her cousin, told her jewishness she’ll have to hide
King can’t know he’s got a Hebrew bride, it might kill his pride
His voice saying “Esther you must pretend, not your self
She started speed reading and speaking and counting all her new wealth
MORDECHAI and (COMPANY):
There would’ve been no more living Jews
If Haman was astute
We would’ve been dead or cooked in stew
Without a hint of meat to chew and
Sold for slavery and to a new Persian Pharaoh
Baking bricks and building and then swingin’ from the gallows
Haman steals everything he can get his hands on
Blamin’ all the Jews and then the ground that they stand on
The town of a King with a new Jewish ban
In Shushan you can’t be a Jew, man
COMPANY and (MORDECHAI):
In Shushan you can’t be a Jew, man
(It’s your fate)
In Shushan you can’t be a Jew, man
(It’s your fate)
In Shushan you can’t be a Jew, man
WOMEN:
In Shushan
MEN:
Shushan
ESTHER:
It’s our fate
COMPANY and (COMPANY):
Queen Esther and Mordechai
We’re depending on our faith in you (‘pending on our faith in you)
You could never back down
You like the Manischewitz wine
Oh, Queen Esther and Mordechai
When Klal Yisrael sings for you
Will they know what you overcame?
Will they know that you burned a flame?
The world will never be the same, oh
ESTHER and (COMPANY):
This Haman wants us all to bow, Mordechai defies him
(It’s our fate)
Another evil fool hating Jews and denies them
(It’s our fate)
His enemies destroyed him and really did surprise him
JEWS:
We fought for them
KING:
Me? I lied to them
HAMAN:
Me? I hated them
GOD:
Me? I loved them
MORDECHAI:
And me?
I’m the proud Jew who fired him
COMPANY:
We are grateful for this girl and guy
But It’s our fate
HAMAN:
What’s your names, man?
ESTHER & MORDECHAI, COMPANY:
Queen Esther & Mordechai!
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