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



Credits
Writer(s): Eli Carvajal
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