Upcoming Recording Session and Performance Reminder!

 On Sunday, February 21 (this Sunday), we will be recording their parody song here in Studio Shira (our classroom) with a professional recording engineer.  In the meantime, we all should be learning the lyrics, and singing along with the karaoke version of the song.  Shiraniks, please practice at home as often as possible before Sunday!!
Also, please mark your calendars for the Junior Choir performance at the Reutlinger Home for Jewish Living in Danville on March 13th.  Please go directly to the Reutlinger home by 9:30, where we will perform and have a reception afterword.  Parents are welcome to attend, and we will be finished by 11:30 a.m.  Dress code is clean, nice casual (please no jeans and t-shirts).  Thanks! See you Sunday!

“LIGHT SONG”   (Sung to the tune of “Fight Song”)

VERSE (sung by students in the present day)

Like a candle

In the window

Lighting the way

Into the past

Like a single band

Can break a great army

I might only have one match

But I can light the menorah

CHORUS PART A- (Sung by the Maccabees in the past)

And all those things we couldn’t save

A drop of oil lasts for eight days

We will arm ourselves tonight

So you’ll hear our voice this time!

PART B -

This is our light song

Take back our rights song

Prove we can fight song

We’ll keep our faith strong

Changing our beliefs is wrong

We’ll play our light song

And we won’t give up till the Greeks leave and let us be,

And we still believe ‘cause we are the Maccabees

VERSE 2 (present day)

Spin the dreidel and win the game

Eating latkes by the flame

Left to right

Light em left to right

(Maccabees)

And it's been three years  

The oil’s gone

But there's a fire burning in my soul 

I still believe

Yeah, I still believe

CHORUS - (Maccabees)

And all those things we couldn’t save

A drop of oil lasts for eight days

We will arm ourselves tonight

So you’ll hear our voice this time!

This is our light song

Take back our rights song

Prove we can fight song

We’ll keep our faith strong

Changing our beliefs is wrong

We’ll play our light song

And we won’t give up till the Greeks leave and let us be,

And we still believe ‘cause we are the Maccabees

(both Maccabees and present day):A lot of light left in me 

BRIDGE (past and present together)

Like a candle

In the window

Lighting the way

Into the future

Like a single band broke a great army

I might only have one match (pause)

But I can light the menorah

CHORUS (PART B ONLY) - (everyone)

This is our light song

Take back our rights song

Prove we can fight song

We’ll keep our faith strong

Changing our beliefs is wrong

We’ll play our light song

And we didn’t give up till the Greeks left and let us be

And we still believe, because now we are all free

And we still believe because we had the Maccabees!