Yankel - Abie Rotenberg Chords
Chords: C, G, Am, D, A, F, Dm, Em, E, E7
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Genre: hip hop, rap, east coast
[Intro]
C G Am D G C G Am A F G C
[Verse 1]
C F G C
In a little town somewhere in Europe
F G F
Just about a hundred years ago
C F
Lived a simple man his name was Yankel oh
G C G
And this is how his story goes.
C F G
Yankel couldn’t learn a blatt gemara
C F G
Why, he barely knew to read and write,
F C
Deep in his heart he loved to do the mitzvos
Dm G C
But somehow he never seemed to get things right.
[Chorus]
F C F G C
He didn’t know his brachos, couldn’t say shema by heart
Am Dm Em Am
He’d daven shmoneh esrei with his feet spread wide apart,
F C F C
Everyone would laugh and snicker when he passed them by in shul
Am Dm E Am
Here comes Yankel Am Ha’aretz, could there be, a bigger fool.
[Verse 2]
C F G C
All the children would make fun of Yankel
F G
Teasing him as if he were a child,
F C
But he never ever lost his temper
F G C
On his face there was always a smile.
C F G
Now the Rabbi tried to learn with Yankel
C F G
So the young man would know how to cope,
F C
In one ear but then out the other
Dm G C
The Rabbi gave up, there simply was no hope.
[Chorus]
F C F G C
His ivreh was atrocious, the place he’d always lose
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