Jewish Cemetery
Jewish cemetery
Minutes from me
Feet from the heat of the neighbourhood bar
The most ancient grave
They say was laid
In seventeen hundred and sixty two
A century since
We could be citizens, true
Ben Israel did plead
And Cromwell agreed
The Commons conceded
Permission to found
A burial ground
East End, London Town
And for the first time in four hundred years
Shiva could sit
Kaddish was heard, word
Then a Carvajal came
Antonio his name
A merchant by trade
From Portugal's heart
Who would've thought
Tony became
The first Jewish citizen of the UK
Endenizened
And at Mile End
Stayed
So dumbfound I stand
Half pint in hand
Cursing the Barmitzvah
I never had
If those stones were clean
Their Hebrew would read
You're in the arms of your family now
Eli, they said
Come lay your head down
Minutes from me
Feet from the heat of the neighbourhood bar
The most ancient grave
They say was laid
In seventeen hundred and sixty two
A century since
We could be citizens, true
Ben Israel did plead
And Cromwell agreed
The Commons conceded
Permission to found
A burial ground
East End, London Town
And for the first time in four hundred years
Shiva could sit
Kaddish was heard, word
Then a Carvajal came
Antonio his name
A merchant by trade
From Portugal's heart
Who would've thought
Tony became
The first Jewish citizen of the UK
Endenizened
And at Mile End
Stayed
So dumbfound I stand
Half pint in hand
Cursing the Barmitzvah
I never had
If those stones were clean
Their Hebrew would read
You're in the arms of your family now
Eli, they said
Come lay your head down
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Writer(s): Eli Carvajal
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