Pesah, the lamb
Shh-h...
Rabban Gamaliel
has something to tell,
so we'd better all listen
to him very well.
He says that each person
must mention these three
if he wants his whole seder
to go perfectly.
Tonight these three things
might be found in your parlor--
They are: Pesah and Matzah and Maror.
Pesah, the lamb
that the Jews would prepare
at the time that the Temple
was still standing there,
to remind us of how
our ancestors were saved,
how they marched out of Egypt
and stopped being slaves.
It wasn't a soup
and it wasn't a stew.
It was more like roast lamb
in a big Bar-B-Q.
We try to remember
that lamb, if we're able,
by keeping a bone of some sort
on the table.
Matzah, this strange flat
and hard, crunchy bread
was the food that our forefathers ate
when they fled.
They didn't have time
to make something more tasty
like chocolate cake
or cherry-cream pastry,
because their departure was
ever so hasty.
The trip out of Egypt was
all so haphazard,
they left mountains of matzah-crumbs
all through the desert.
Manny, our matzah-dog,
eats it by tons.
He'll have two hundred matzahs
before the night's done.
The third thing is Maror.
These herbs are so bitter!
Let's give some to Marvin,
our mean baby-sitter!