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Dedicated to the

LUBAVITCHER

REBBE
of blessed memory

The founder of
Camp Gan Israel
Table of Contents
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Camp Song.............................................. 1 I’m Big Gedalia Goomber .................... 11
Hashem Is Here ....................................... 1 Just One Shabbos (1) ........................... 13
Oh Why We Jews All Cry......................... 1 I Have A Mezuzah................................. 14
Old Folks, Young Folks........................... 2 ‘Cause I’m A Jew................................... 14
Who Knows One?.................................... 3 First There Was Reb Yisroel................. 15
In A Small College Town ........................ 3 Listen Every Jew................................... 15
With A Tehillim ....................................... 4 It’s A Camp Of Laughter ...................... 16
It’s Gonna Be The Little Kinderlach....... 4 Shake It Up Zaidy ................................. 16
Ooh, Lelle ................................................ 5 Tie Me Yetzer Horo Down.................... 16
We’re In The Army .................................. 5 Hey Rebbe, Rebbe................................ 17
Zeidy........................................................ 6 Oh, Dovid.............................................. 18
In A Village Near Our Home................... 6 From Camp We Go ............................... 19
Daddy Dear ............................................. 7 My Counselor’s Care For Me................ 19
Am Yisroel ............................................... 8 Alone As A Camper .............................. 20
Wake Up Yidden ..................................... 8 If All The Raindrops.............................. 20
The Little Bird ......................................... 8 The Other Day ...................................... 20
Don’t Walk In Front Of Me ..................... 9 Mm, Mm ................................................ 21
To Love A Fellow Jew ............................. 9 Way Up High......................................... 21
Modeh Ani............................................... 9 I Said A Boom Chika Boom .................. 21
Yankle Strudel ........................................ 9 Waiting For So Long Now.................... 22
Popeye...................................................10 We’ve Existed So Long......................... 22
Shabbos Is Coming...............................10 Gan Yisroel ........................................... 23
Shabbos Angles ....................................10 CGI Camp Cheer ................................... 23
Shabbos Is Going Away........................10 Just One Shabbos (2) .......................... 23
A Young Boy Holds...............................10 All The Animals .................................... 23
If I Would Have The Might ...................11 Have you got the spirit ........................ 23
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Camp Song
For Gan Yisroel come along this So come on let’s get to it,
way, We know that we can do it.
First learning then Davening is It’s up to me and you,
how we start the day. And others will join too.
With a Chayus and a Bren in
everything we do, Hashem Is Here
When you see it, you’ll enjoy it, Hashem is here, Hashem is
so come and join us too. there
Hashem is truly everywhere.
Plain Davening and learning Hashem is here, Hashem is
Is really not enough, there
Its gotta be with Chyaus Hashem is truly everywhere.
It’s really not so tough.
Up, up, down, down
From Israel the the US, Right, left, and all around
From Africa to Budapest, Here, there, and everywhere,
Gan Yisroel Manchester That’s where He can be found.
Is sure to be the best.
Up, up, down, down
Cause’… Right, left, and all around
Torah and Mitzvos, we do all we Here, there, and everywhere,
can, That’s where He can be found.
It’s exciting, it’s rewarding, its
Hashem’s plan . Oh Why We Jews All Cry
“Yerushoh Hi Lonu Oh why, we Jews all cry
Mei’Avoseinu” Are things so tough, we’ve had
It’s Hashem’s gift to every Jew. enough.
We’ve worked and slaved all
When with Chayus we will learn, through these years
And with Achdus we will play, Oh, when will Hashem wipe
The Geulah will be here right away our tears.
away.
Chorus:
Then together we will dance, Oh, when will we walk hand in
And together we will sing. hand
Our joy will know no bounds, With Moshiach to the Promised
For we’ll be with our king. Land.
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Oh, when will we walk hand in They started keeping house.

hand Everything was dandy
With Moshiach to the Promised And merry, on the main
Land. Till along came Abel
And started raising Cain.
We’re thrown around from here
to there, Noah was a carpenter
It isn’t fair, but our fiath is strong. Who stumbled in the dark
All the Jews are spread apart Came across a hammer
It breaks our heart, but it won’t And built himself an ark
be for long. Along came the animals
Two by two
For soon, we will walk… And now you know the story
Of the Gan Yisroel zoo.
Soon we’ll hear a sound that’s
near Isaac was the son of
Telling us that the time is now. Abraham’s hundredth year
For the sound will be Eliyohu At the akeidah
Hanovi He didn’t shed a tear.
And Moshiach will come to fulfill He would have sacrificed him
G-d’s vow. Though his heart was full of
strife
And then we will walk But then he didn’t do it
‘Cause he had a Milchig knife.
Old Folks Young Folks
Chorus: Eisav was a hunter
Old Folks, Young Folks In the wild woolly West
Everybody come He roamed around the ranch
Come to Gan Yisroel, and have house
a lot of fun And combed his hairy chest
Kiss the mezuzah you’ll find For his birthright
hanging on the door He didn’t really care
And you’ll hear a lot of stories So he sold it to Yaakov
That you’ve never heard before. For a nickel, and a beer.

Adam was the first man Moshe took the Jews

And Eve was his spouse, From Pharaoh’s wicked land
In the Garden of Eden He led them to
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The Promised Land One is Hashem, one is Hashem,

When he struck the rock one is Hashem
There rose a mighty cheer In the heavens and the earth.
Instead of water, flowed
Schlitz malt liquor beer. Who knows two?…
Two are the luchos that Moshe
Yonah was a mariner brought,
So goes the ancient tale And one is Hashem…
He took a Trans-Atlantic trip
In the belly of a whale Three are the fathers…
Yonah felt claustrophobic Four are the mothers…
And very much depressed Five are the books of the
So, he pushed the belly button Torah…
And the whale did the rest. Six are the books of the
Mishna…
Daniel was a prisoner Seven are the days of the
Brought before the king week…
They played twenty questions Eight are the days before a
But couldn’t learn a thing bris…
They threw him in a lions’ den Nine are the months before a
To perform a great feat baby’s born…
So, Daniel became a dentist Ten are the Aseres Hadibros…
And pulled the lions’ teeth. Eleven are the stars in Yosef’s
dream…
Samson was a mighty man Twelve are the tribes of
From the Man United school Yisroel…
He killed ten thousand Yankees Thirteen are the Midos of
With the jawbone of a mule Hashem…
He had a brother Fourteen are the books of the
Who was strong, as well Rambam…
Samson went to heaven
And his brother went to....Gan In A Small College Town
Yisroel In a small college town
There is a young man feeling
down
Who Knows One? His future an uncertainty
Who knows one? Oh, what will become of me?
I know one!
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A Chabad House is nearby bear any more

The young man gives it a try, Why don’t you open the door
Directions maybe here I’ll find
And have peace of mind. Your children are yearning to be
with you
He discusses Yiddishkeit How long can this Golus
All through the night continue
But he cries, I don’t belong Bring the Geulah, fulfilling your
I am too far gone. vow
To bring Moshiach, right now!
The Shliach says, not true
Hagam shechoto Yisroel hu Its Gonna Be The Little
No matter where you may roam Kinderlach
You can always come back So you want to know who’s
home. gonna bring Moshiach
Well I’ll tell you I’ll tell you
With A Tehillim It’s not gonna be the business
With a Tehillim he sat through man
the night Or the wealthy man or the
Pondering deeply into his plight famous man oh no.
The pain of golus in front of his
eyes Chorus:
Oh, where is Moshiach, he cries. It’s gonna be the little kinderlach
The little, little, little kinderlach
Three time a day we would It’s gonna be the little kinderlach
daven and pray Who’ll make Moshiach come.
That Moshiach Tzidkainu should
come right away The little boy who goes to
How can I live when a day goes yeshiva
by And learns Hashem’s Torah
Without the geula he cries. To understand
He’ll make him come.
Chorus:
Moshiach, Moshiach, we need The little girls who sings Birchas
you hamozon
Hashem, Hashem, Keil rachum And says every word
We’re sick of this Golus can’t With holy kavana
She’ll make him come.
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Ooh le lay
Chorus: Moshiach is coming
The little boy who wears his talis And he’s coming to stay.
kattan
And kisses his tzitzis It’s in the air
When he says the shema It’s everywhere
He’ll make him come. Moshaich is coming
Let’s brake out in cheer.
The little girl who davens each
morning Ooh le…
And gives her allowance
Away for tzedka So clap your hands
She’ll make him come. And tap your feet
When you hear the news
Chorus: Your heart will beat.
The little boy who stays in shul
And stands with his father It’s everywhere
To listen to the Torah It’s on the billboard signs
He’ll make him come. I read about Moshiach
In the New York Times.
The little girl who goes every
Shabbos Ooh le..
To visit the sick
And the lonely old people We’re In The Army
She’ll make him come. We’re in the army we’re ready to
fight
Ooh Lelle Our camps are protected day
Please join and along and night
Sing my song By doing the Mitzvoswe’ll win
Moshiach is coming this war
And it won’t be long. And there won’t be Golus
anymore.
So clap your hands
And tap your feet So Yetzer Hora listen to me
Moshiach is coming Don’t waste your time bothering
You’ll be dancing in the street. me
We’re marching on to victory
Ooh le le With Moshiach speedily.
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make us free.
My Zeidy
My Zeide lived with us in my And as winter went by
parents’ home Then summer came along
He used to laugh he put me on I went to camp to run and play
his knee And when I came back home
He spoke about his life in they said "Zeide’s gone"
Poland And all his books were packed
He spoke but with a bitter and stored away.
memory.
I don’t know how or why it came
And he spoke about the soldiers to be
who would beat him It happened slowly over many
They laughed at him they tore years
his long black coat We just stopped being Jewish
And he spoke about a like my Zeide was
synagogue And no one cared enough to
That they burned down shed a tear.
And the crying that was heard
beneath the smoke. Many winters went by many
summers came along
But Zeide made us laugh Zeide And now my children sit in front
make us sing of me
And Zeide made a kiddush And who will be the Zeide of my
Friday nights children?
And Zeide oh my Zeide how I Who will be the Zeide if not me?
loved him so Who will be the Zeide of our
And Zeide used to teach me children?
wrong from right. Who will be the Zeide if not we?

His eyes lit up when he would

teach me Torah In A Village
He taught me every line so In a village near our home works
carefully a carpenter alone
He spoke about our slavery in He’s been carving wood for
Egypt years shtenders, shelves and
And how G-d took us out to chairs
Daily buyers come and go but
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there’s one thing they don’t And I’ve heard that Hashem
know keeps it close near by
His thoughts’ so far away while And He fills it with his tears each
waiting for that special day. time that He cries.

There is a dream of vision deep Grandpa told me daddy dear did

within his heart he tell you the same
That he’ll rebuild the Beis That when sorrow strikes His
Hamikdosh part by part people Hashem feels all the
Doing Mitzvos adding precious pain.
stones Tell me why does he cry far
Our dream our palace away in the sky
Yerusholayim our home. Tell me why daddy dear are
there tears in your eyes.
In a crumbling little home lives a
fiddler all alone Little one little one it is true yes
His inheritance so dear for many it’s true
ancient years Grandpa told me years ago and
It’s this instrument he holds his his dad told him too,
great grandfather he told Fathers cry for their children and
Would hurry up each day to the Hashem does the same
courtyard of Hashem to play. When we’re hurt so is He yes he
feels all the pain.
On a mountain on a stone sits
Moshiach all alone Tears of pity from His eyes in
Suffering for years for all our the cup sadly flows
sins he bear Till one day when it’s full all our
While so painfully he cries troubles will go,
prayers piercing through the We will dance we will cry in the
skies sky like the birds
Pleading to Hashem to take us And I cry little one ‘cuz I’m
all back home again. touched by your words.

Daddy Dear One more question daddy dear

Daddy dear tell me please is it answer please if you will
true what they say Just how deep is this cup tell me
In the heaven there’s a cup that when will it fill,
gets fuller each day. Don’t you think it is time that the
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sun forever shines There will be no more wars

Don’t you think it is time dear No more will lions roar
daddy of mine. Umalah ha’aretz deo
In a Mikdash built of flame
Little one it is time and I’ve We’ll give thanks to His Name
questioned that too And march to Geulah
Let’s ask Him together, together With the Moshiach Tzidkainu.
me and you,
Father dear do you hear our The Little Bird Is Calling
worries our fears The little bird is calling
Will your eyes ever dry is your It wishes to return
cup filled with tears. The little bird is wounded
It cannot fly, but yearns
Am Yisroel It’s captured by the vultures
Am Yisroel, have no fear Crying bitterly
Moshiach will be here this year Oh, to see my nest again
Am Yisroel, have no fear Oh, to be free.
Moshiach will be here this year.
The little bird of silver
We want Moshiach now. So delicate and rare
We want Moshiach now. Still chirps among the vultures
We want Moshiach now. Outshining all that’s there
We don’t want to wait. How long, how long, it suffers
How long will it be
We want Moshiach now. Oh, when will come the eagle
We want Moshiach now. And set the little bird free.
We want Moshiach now.
We don’t want to wait. The little bird is Yisroel
The vultures are our foes
Wake Up Yidden The painful wound is Golus
Wake up, Yidden Which we all feel and know
From the dream of Golus The nest is Yerusholayim
Get ready to meet Moshiach Where we yearn to be, once
Tzidkeinu more
Geulah is coming And the eagle is Moshiach
Swiftly towards us Whom we are waiting for.
Hinei ze omeid achar kosleinu.

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Don’t Walk In Front Of Me Modeh ani lifonecho melech

Don’t walk in front of me, chai vikayom
I may not follow Shehechezarto bi nishmosi
Don’t walk behind me, bichemla raba emunasecho.
I may not lead.
Thank you Hashem for all the
Just walk beside me, and be my sunshine
friend And the raindrops that must fall
And together, we will walk in the For all the flowers in the
ways of Hashem. springtime
But for the Torah we thank you
To Love A Fellow Jew most of all.
To love a fellow Jew
Just the same as you Thank you Hashem for kosher
Is the basis of our holy Torah. pizza
And for creating swimming pools
He may be far from me Thank you for latkes and for
Across the widest sea Pashkez
Still, I’ll always love him just the And for the snowstorms that
same. keep us home from school.

For seventy, eighty years Yankle Strudel

A Neshama wears and tears I’m a Yanky Strudel danddy
Just to do a favor for another. I eat kosher all the time
All the food that goes into my
Love him with all your heart mouth
The heavens spread apart Must have a kosher sign.
For every Jew is really our
brother. Yankee strudel went to town
Riding on a rocket
Modeh Ani He went to buy some kosher
Oh every morning candy
When I’m through sleeping He put it in his pocket.
I open up my eyes and say
Thank you Hashem for my They were kosher Yessiree!
neshama And that was really dandy
And for giving me another day. Yanky strudel well you see
Buy only kosher candy.
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Popeye Shabbos Is Going Away

I’m Popeye the Sailor Mentch Shabbos is going away,
After I eat I bentch. The sky’s getting dark, it’s the
Friday night I make kiddish, end of the day.
Because I am yiddish. Oh, Shabbos you really should
I’m Popeye the Sailor Mentch. know,
We’re sorry to see you go.
I’m olive oil the sailoress, Before
I eat I bless, Friday night, The But you will come back next
candles I light, week we know.
I’m Olive Oil the sailoress. You will come back for we love
you so.
Shabbos Is Coming So, let us thank Hashem,
Shabbos is coming; we’re so Who will bring Shabbos back
happy, again.
We’re gonna sing and shout out
loud. A Young Boy Holds
Six days a week we wait for A young boy holds a small cup
Shabbos, in his hand,
A gift from Hashem, and we’re Reciting words he can barely
so proud. understand.
But on his face, there shines a
So, let’s shout together, joyful light -
“Shabbos!” He is making Kiddush Friday
Let’s sing together, “Shabbos!” night.
Whisper together, “Shabbos!”
Tell it to the world, “Shabbos!” “Father, Father, please join in
with me.
Shabbos Angels Father, Father, I’m lonely, can’t
The Shabbos angels are you see.
peaking through my window, Let’s daven together, that is my
Ima’s lighting candles, and dream,
Abba’s going to shul. Viheishv lev avos al banim.”

Shabbat Shalom, Shabbat A young girl holds a candlestick,

Shalom, Shabbat Shalom, so bright,
To every one of you.
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Preparing to light the candles, Shabbos, Shabbos, Shabbos,

Friday night. Shabbos,
Her mother is watching, with Shabbos, Shabbos, Shabbos,
tears in her eyes, Shabbos,
Her daughter turns to her, and Shabbos hayom laHashem,
cries; Shabbos hayom laHashem.

“Mother, Mother, please join in I’m Big Gedalia Goomber

with me. Chorus:
Mother, Mother, I’m lonely, can’t Ain’t gonna work on Saturday!
you see. Ain’t gonna work on Saturday!
Let’s light together, that is my Double, double, triple pay,
dream, Won’t make me work on
Viheishv lev avos al banim.” Saturday.
Ain’t gonna work on Saturday,
Throughout the world, children It’s Shabbos Kodesh!
pure and true,
Are teaching Torah to every I’m big Gedaliah Goomber
single Jew. I’m not exactly small,
Their parents are learning, and But really, not so very big,
they are so proud - Just seventeen feet tall!
And together, they all cry out I’m rigged for working,
loud; For that, I’m very fit.
Six days a week, I’m at it
“Father, Father, when will the On the seventh day, I quit.
Geulah be?
Father, Father, we’re lonely, I once helped raise a building
can’t You see? And, on the hundredth floor,
Please bring Moshiach, that is I was carrying a load of bricks -
our dream, An easy ton or more.
Viheishv lev avos al banim.” And here, it’s late on Friday,
I knew I’d have to stop.
If I Would Have The Might So I yelled, watch out below -
If I would have the might - And let the whole thing drop!
I would run into the night,
And I would scream, “Shabbos, At driving a locomotive
Shabbos, Shabbos, Shabbos.” I thought I’d take a crack,
I had the throttle wide open
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Zooming down the track. One Shabbos, hungry lions

And here, it’s almost Shabbos, Came roaring ‘round my tent.
The sun’s about to set. My assistant held my rifle,
So, I dove into a mudhole “Go Goomber, shoot those
And the train is running yet. pests.”
But, I called them in instead -
I worked down in a coal mine To be my Shabbos guests.
And lost myself, alright.
I couldn’t tell the days apart Once, to split the atom -
Because there was no light. With effort, I had learned.
So, I set myself to digging Suddenly, there was a blast -
Just as fast as you may please, Boy, did I get burned.
And, I popped up in an hour - Everyone was worried,
Where the people speak So, the doctors I did tell,
Chinese. That by keeping the Shabbos
holy -
I had a job, a dandy, I would soon be fit and well.
On a road construction crew.
A great big mountain had us I worked at Cape Kennedy,
stuck - And things were going right,
We couldn’t dig it through. A great big rocket ship was set -
And soon it would be Shabbos, On the launching site.
But, not to say I’m proud, And here, it’s getting dark -
I took that stubborn mountain - Shabbos was coming soon.
And kicked it on a cloud. So, I pushed the starting button,
And spent Shabbos on the
I turned to deep-sea diving, moon.
And took an awful chance,
On a sunken steamer’s deck - I once was an astronaut -
I got caught by my pants. And flying through the stars,
And, trapped beneath the I came across a spaceship
ocean, Whose pilots were from Mars.
I couldn’t set myself free, I said, “Hello there, Martians”
But, I went home for Shabbos - And stayed with them, until
And dragged that ship with me! I taught them to keep Shabbos -
And they’re keeping Shabbos,
I once was an explorer - still.
To Africa, I went.
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I dress my best on Shabbos, I said, hello, my friend, you

Three meals, I feast me fine. seem to be amused
I make a royal Kiddush He said, much more than that, I
On a barrel full of wine. am a bit confused
And, when I sing my Zemiros I know I am a Jew, I was Bar
For a thousand miles, they know Mitzvah too
That I’m enjoying Shabbos, But Shabbos, in our home, who
For Hashem has told us so. ever knew

Just One Shabbos He asked to join with us, to

Western Wall on Friday night, understand and see
first time ever there. He spent some time with us, in
Strapped into his knapsack, with total ecstasy
his long and curly hair. Next Shabbos came along, his
He stood there for a while, then feelings grew so strong
broke out with a smile, He first began to feel, that he
Emotion, overwhelming joy, with belonged
tears.
(Chorus)
The men were dancing there,
their hearts so full of love He found his treasure, made
Sang such happy tunes, to some changes in his life
thank the One Above A brand-new family, his children
For showing them the way, for and his wife
giving them a day They learn new things each day,
Rest, rejoice, with peace of to live the Torah way
mind, to pray The message of the Shabbos,
they will relate
Chorus:
Just one Shabbos, and we’ll all Now, every Friday night, they go
be free down to the Wall
Just one Shabbos, come and Invite some people ‘round, and
join with me they will tell them all
We’ll sing and dance to the sky We’ll teach them this new song,
With our spirits so high to join and sing along
We will show them all, it’s true Soon we’ll all be free, it won’t be
Let them come and join us, too long.

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I Have A Mezuzah ‘Cause I’m a Jew, ‘cause I’m a

I have a Mezuzah Jew,
I have a Mezuzah I do that too.
On my door Because the Torah tells me to,
On my door I do that too,
And now, I will tell you I do the strangest things a man
And now, I will tell you Could ever do.
What it’s for ‘Cause I’m a Jew, I do that too.
What it’s for
Oh there are times when I wear
To kiss the Mezuzah sneakers with my suit,
To kiss the Mezuzah And I must confess that it looks
Is our aim rather cute.
Is our aim And there’s a time where we
For on it, is written must send each other fruit.
For on it, is written ‘Cause I’m a Jew, I do that too.
Hashem’s name
Hashem’s name. Oh once a year I twirl a chicken
over my head,
‘Cause I’m A Jew And it wouldn’t be that bad if it
I wear a kippa on this head of were dead.
mine. And there’s a time I go outside
I daven mincha in the proper and burn my bread.
time. ‘Cause I’m a Jew, I do that too.
And by havdalah in my pockets I
put wine. Chorus:
‘Cause I’m a Jew, I do that too. Oh once a month I go outside
and bless the moon.
I put my shlocks down, when it And once a year I have to eat all
starts to rain. afternoon.
I shake a lulav, which my And there’s a time I pound my
neighbors think insane. chest and sing a tune.
I like to bury my gefilte fish in ‘Cause I’m a Jew, I do that too.
chrein.
‘Cause I’m a Jew, I do that too. On Pesach I will drink four cups
of wine, it’s true.
Chorus: And then eat matzah till I have
no strength to chew.
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Then I eat horseradish until I’m The Frierdiker Rebbe

turning blue. Made schools and yeshivos
‘Cause I’m a Jew, I do that too. He also made Bais Rivkah
For you and for me
First There Was Reb
Yisroel Today as chassidim
First there was Reb Yisroel We are happy as can be
The heilike Ba’al Shem Tov As the Rebbe leads us from 770
Then there was Reb Dov Ber He is the seventh Rebbe
The Maggid of Mezritch And with him we will be
Taken out of golus
The first Chabad Rebbe To Geulah speedily.
Was the Alter Rebbe, Rebbe
Schneur Zalman Listen Every Jew
He lived in Liadi, he wrote the Listen listen every Jew
Tanya This is what you gotta do
And the Shulchan Aruch An urgent call from the Rebbe of
He brought Moshiach closer Lubavitch (x2)
For you and for me
That girls and mothers light
The Mitteler Rebbe, the Alter The candles Friday night
Rebbe’s son And every single day
Reb Dov Ber Schneiuri was the Men should Tefillin lay
second one
Then came the Tzemach To love every Jew
Tzedek And teach them what is true
Reb Menachem Mendel Mezuzos on you doors
And keep the Kosher laws
And fourth Reb Shmuel
The Rebbe MaHaRaSh Torah you must study
The fifth Rebbe nishmoso eden Buy books that are holy
Reb Sholom Dov Ber Don’t forget charity
The Rebbe RaShaB Family purity

And sixth Reb Yosef Yitzchok That is when Moshiach’s gonna

The Frierdiker Rebbe come
With great mesiras nefesh That is when Moshiach’s gonna
He came across the sea come.
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We don’t want to come to grief,

It’s A Camp Of Laughter chief
It’s a camp of laughter So, tie me Yetzer Hora down.
A camp of fun
For me, Gan Yisroel Love your fellow Jew, Lou
Is the only one Love your fellow Jew
It’s a camp for me It’s the basis of our belief, Keith
It’s a camp for you It’s the greatest thing you can
It’s a camp for every Jew do.

It’s a great camp, after all Put Tefillin on your head, Fred
We will miss you in the fall Put Tefillin on you head
It’s a great camp, after all So he grabbed those straps of
Machaneinu Gan Yisroel. hide, Clyde
An’ that’s him, moving ahead.
Shake It Up Zaidy
Shake it up, Zaidy! Put a Mezuzah on your gate,
Shake it up, Zaidy! mate
Put a Mezuzah on your gate
You look so cool, when you This Mitzvah ain’t no joke, Bloke
daven in shul… It’ll save ya from a dangerous
fate.
You look so hip, when in the
mikva you dip… Light candles like a good Jewish
girl, Shirl
You look so weird, when you Light candles like a good Jewish
shave your beard… girl
So she grabbed those sticks of
You look so divine, when you wax, Max
make Kiddush on wine… This Mitzvah’s really a pearl.

Tell us that you’re willin’, to put Gotta pray to Hashem, Clem

on Tefillin… Gotta pray to Hashem
Mornin’, arvo, and eve, Steve
Daven again and again.
Tie Me Yetzer Horo Down
Chorus:
Kosher meat’s what I like, Mike
Tie me Yetzer Hora down, chief
Kosher meat’s what I like
Tie me Yetzer Hora down
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So get rid of your pork, Hawke Ocker

Let ya piggies go for a hike. Get home an’ empty ya till.

Educate your kid, Sid There’s Elokus in a platypus,

Educate you kid Gus
Lit ‘im learn from night till dawn, There’s Elokus in a platypus
Norm There’s Hashem in every little
Or Itche Groner’s gonna flip his thing, Bing
lid. Even in kangaroos.

Hang those fringes on your shirt, Look forward to the time to

Squirt come, chum
Hang those fringes on your shirt Look forward to the time to
Don’t hide ‘em in you pants, come
Lance We want Moshiach now, Mal
And don’t let ‘em drag in the dirt. We’ll all together be one.

Rest on the seventh day, Ray Hey Rebbe, Rebbe

Rest on the seventh day Chorus:
Devote this time to ya soul, Joel Hey Rebbe, Rebbe, where’s the
Put those tools away. place
I’ve really got to know
Learn Chitas each day, Jay Hey Rebbe, Rebbe, it’s getting
Learn Chitas each day late
Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya And I’ve got to go
It will keep the Yetzer Hora
away. It was 9 o’clock, when we
started to learn
Don’t forget to learn, Ern Gemara, and Rashi too
Don’t forget to learn I was fooling around, when my
Truckin’ away through Shas, Rebbe looked at me
Gus And I didn’t know what to do
Do yourself a good turn.
He gave me a look that touched
Out with the dollar bill, Phil my soul
Out with the dollar bill I really started to shake
Fill that box with Tzedokah, I made up my mind, right then
and there
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That I would stay awake

Oh, Dovid
He came at me as quick as a Oh Dovid, I send you this letter
wink Expressing my pain and despair
I started to run on the floor To thank you, for teaching me
But my Rebbe got hold of me, how to survive
and threw me out All the troubles I meet
To the other side of the door everywhere.

When I awoke from the slump I My parents don’t want me to

was in Daven
I started to roam the halls They tell me do something,
When, all of a sudden, the instead
principal came That’s when I tell them, the
A man big, wide, and tall things that I’ve learned
Those wonderful things that
He asked me what I was doing you’ve said:
there
Fooling around in the hall Chorus:
I told him, my Rebbe chucked Chazak Ve’ematz, always
me out remember
‘Cause I was having a ball Be strong in your trust, not a
pretender
He told me to come to the office You cannot just take, you also
with him must give
‘Cause he’s gonna call my dad Only then have you learned how
I started to cry, for then I to live.
realized
That I never, ever should have But my parents don’t see that
been bad I’m filled with emotion
And serving Hashem with a total
The moral of the story is plain to devotion
see You’ve cleared all my doubts,
And one we can surely face you’ve answered my dreams
That, when a sefer is in front of Now I know what a Jew really
you. means.

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I’m laughed at, because of my Now try to explain, as I once did

Kippa to you
My friends make me feel like a To your Jewish friends, as I
fool would:
They don’t understand why I
wear it all day Chorus:
Why I don’t take it off after It is true, that we’re lost in a
school. world of confusion
Their faith isn’t real, It’s just an
At home, I make sure we keep illusion
Kosher Don’t cry for them all, but teach
But few of my friends do the them to do
same The beautiful laws of the Jew.
They hide their religion where no You should always know the
one can see place.
How I wish they could hear you
explain: From Camp We Go
From camp we go, we’ll miss
Chorus: you so
But so many are lost in a world Friends and counselors we’ve
of confusion got to know
Their faith isn’t real, it’s just an We’ve learnt so much while we
illusion were here
I cry for them all, I pity them so But Torah is for every season of
For the beautiful things they the year
don’t know.
Send me to a Torah school
I’m writing to you, dear Yossi So I can learn, and know what to
In reply to your letter to me do
These are the troubles in the life So much fun, and learning too
of a Jew Because I am a Jew.
As by now you’ve found out, I
can see. My Counselor’s Care For
I’m proud you’ve continued the
Me
My counselor’s care for me
practice
Etched into my memory
Of keeping Mitzvos, as you
His stories, his songs, I still hear
should
Nostalgia brings me to tears
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The new things I’ve learnt here

Many years have passed by mean so much to me
Now it is my turn to try Without Gan Yisroel, oh where
My campers to educate would I be
My counselors to emulate Dear friends that I made here, I
can only cry
No time to waste The end is approaching, I must
Work with great haste say goodbye
Like shkeidim, so quick to grow
The Rebbe, so dear Goodbye Gan Yisroel, farewell
Has made it so clear to our wonderful times
For this, we learn all year How much will I miss what I’m
leaving behind
The trunks are all packed away I’m making a promise, your
Tearful goodbyes we say lessons I will not forsake
Counselor, my campers say to A much better person of me,
me they will make
Like you we want to be.
Goodbye Gan Yisroel…
Alone As A Camper
Alone as a camper, I stood on If All the Raindrops
the side If all the raindrops were lemon
The fear of my first year, I just drops and gum drops, Oh what
could not hide a rain it would be, I'd go outside
But warmth of their friendship, in with my mouth open wide,
joining the games Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah,
Their spirit engulfed me, a part I
became But, if all the raindrops were
lemon drops and gum drops
The chayus at bentching, And they were not Kosher I'd
The care af my counselors I see, stay inside with my mouth shut
Chossidishe surroundings, tight.
inspiring me Mm mm mm mm mm mm mm
Ahavas Yisroel, the flag flying mm mm mm.
proud in the breeze
Where else can I find this, oh The Other Day
how can I leave The Other Day The other day,
(2x)
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I met a bear. (2x) frog one day, Mm, mm, went the
Up in the woods, (2x) little green frog. Mm, mm, went
Away up there. (2x) the little green frog one day, And
He looked at me, (2x) his eyes went
I looked at him. (2x) mm, mm, mm.. All the other
He sighed at me, (2x) frogs went ... Frodo, dioh, dioh,
I sighed at him. (2x) frodo, dioh, dioh, Frodo, dioh,
He said to me, (2x) dioh.
Why don't you run? (2x)
I see you ain't (2x) Way Up High
Got any gun. (2x) Way up high, in the sky
And so I ran, (2x) There's a building still unfinished
Away from there, (2x) Way up high, in the sky
But right behind me, (2x) The Mikdash Hashlishi
Was that bear. (2x) And for every Mitzvah that we
Ahead of me, (2x) do so carefully
There was a tree. (2x) Hashem will add a brick to the
The biggest tree, (2x) Mikdash Hashlishi
That you ever did see. (2x) And for every Mitzvah that we
The nearest branch, (2x) do so carefully
Was ten feet up. (2x) Hashem will add a brick to the
I'd have to jump, (2x) Mikdash Hashlishi.
And trust my luck. (2x)
And so I jumped, (2x) I Said A Boom Chika
Into the air, (2x)
But I missed that branch, (2x)
Boom
I said a boom chicka boom
Away up there. (2x)
I said a boom chicka rocka
But don't you fret, (2x)
chicka rocka chicka boom
And don't you frown, (2x)
I said an oh yes,
'Cause I caught that branch, (2x)
I said an alright
On the way back down. (2x)
I said a daddy style
That's all there is, (2x)
I said an English style
There ain't no more, (2x)
I said a squeaky style
Unless I meet, (2x)
I said a Gan Izzy style!!!!
That bear once more. (2x)
I said a N.Y. style I said a
Grandma style I said a Baby
Mm, Mm, style.
Mm, mm, went the little green
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Waiting For So Long fabrication.

Waiting for so long now,
Two thousand years. Not just for me but all the nation.
Waiting for so long now, Dem African man want dem
We cannot wait no more. Moshiach man
Whom are we waiting for? And dem Puerto Ricon
Dem Moshiach man. And dem Mexican
And dent Colombian
And what will be? nd dem American
When he will come? And dem Israeli-man
When he will come, And dem Russian
There will be lots of fun. And dem Argentinian
And on the trees, And dem Canadian
There will be growing candy. And dem South African
And everything will be so nice And dem Pomme-man
and dandy. Ohl I almost forgot one ting, one
ting, one ting... Dem
And the main thing will be: Mancunian...!
Shalom in the East and Shalom
in the West We’ve Existed So Long
Shalom in the North and Shalom We’ve existed so long For the
in the South Torah kept us strong
Peace in the East and peace in And the Torah will never
the West disappear—oh, no!
Peace in the North and peace in
the South Through the ages, it was
brought By the children, who
Come on now, come on now were taught
Ragga mon daddy, To follow it, and constantly
Come on now, come on now declare:
and listen for me.
Listen for me brother We have “I’m a Jew, and I’m proud And I’ll
information, sing it out loud ‘Cause forever,
You know we go to see Dem G- that’s what I’ll be.
dly revelation, “I’m a Jew, and I’m proud And
You know we gonna feel dem it’s without a doubt That
Great sensation. Hashem is always watching over
Me telling you dem truth It's no me.”
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How m
Gan Yisroel any Fathers, one, two, three.
Gan Yisroel our heart and soul How many Mothers, four.
Gan Yisroel (X2) How many children, you and me
And many millions more.
To bring Moshiach is our goal
Gan Yisroel (x2) All The Animals
All the animals that we eat,
(wave hands in air) Ooooohhh Must chew their cud and have
oooooohhh Ooooooohhh split feet,
oooooohhhh ‘Cause Kosher food just can’t be
beat,
Gan Yisroel (clap clap) Gan I eat only kosher.
Yisroel (clap clap) Gan
Yisroeeeeel. So throw away that ham and
bacon
CGI Camp Cheer I won’t eat it, your’e mistaken,
We’re on the march coming thru, ‘Cause I’m a Jew and I’m not
Hashem’s army yes it’s true. fakin’
If you don’t hear us – still in I want Kosher food.
doubt, I’ll tell you what we’re all
about. So every time you’re in the
market,
Camp Gan Izzy rocking fun, Only buy food with a Kosher
Where Jewish kids are number sign on it,
one. It’s good for me and it’s good for
Raise your voices reach the sky, you,
This summer we are flying high. And what do you know, Hashem
loves it too.
Just One Shabbos (2)
Just one Shabbos Have you got the spirit
Just one Torah Have you got that spirit?
Just one Hashem, Who can’t be Yeah! Yeah!
seen Have you got that spirit? Yeah!
Yeah!
Commandments, He Let's hear it in your hands (clap
commanded us Six hundred and clap clap clap clap)
thirteen. Have you got that spirit?
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Yeah! Yeah!
Have you got that spirit? Yeah!
Yeah!
Let's hear it in your feet (stamp
stamp stamp stamp stamp)
Have you got that spirit? Yeah!
Yeahl
Have you got that spirit? Yeah!
Yeah!
Let's hear it in your voices I love
Camp Gan Israelllllllllll

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