Video The Chanukah Party de Anika Noni Rose 2025 Lyrics Lyrics

Anika Noni Rose - The Chanukah Party Lyrics

[THE GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK]
Oh, Chanukah, oh, Chanukah
Oh, dreidel and menorah
We celebrate it even though
It isn't in the Torah
Talmud barely mentions it
The way they kept that candle lit
Sages in their colloquies
Say bupkes ’bout the Maccabees
And how with very little fuss
They routed King Antiochus

[THE GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK, spoken]
Antiochus! Pooh!

[THE GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK]
Who cares what all the sages say?
We celebrate it anyway!
Chanukah, oh, Chanukah
From Astrakhan to Panama
All along that isthmus
We're celebrating Chanukah
Especially in America!

[GRANDMA GELLMAN]
A whole week more than Christmas!
[ROSE]
You may think it's December
But, Noah, dear, remember
Tonight is Kislev Twenty-Five

[THE ADULT GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK]
And every single Jew alive
Oy Noahleh, oy bubaleh
Oy vontzeleh, oy pishkeleh
Sings happy, happy Chanukah
Especially in America!
America, America, God shed His grace on thee
Where every Jew’s a Maccabee
And crowned thy good with brotherhood
And bade our blessings multiply

[THE ADULT GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK, NOAH, spoken]
Mi kamocha ba-eilim Adonai>
Mi kamocha ne-e-dar (Baruch ata adonai, eloheinu melech ha'olam)
Ba-ko-desh? (Asher kidshanu b'mitzvotav)
No-ra t'hilot o-se fe-le (Vitzivanoo l'hadlich ner, shel Chanukah)
No-ra t'hilot o-se fe-le
Omayn

[CAROLINE, spoken]
Give that liver salad a toss
Watch the goose, don't let it dry
Spoon them jars of applesauce
And put them pancakes in the fry
If you don't fry ’em right away
They start turning gray
[NOAH, spoken]
Know why they’re fried in chicken fat?

[EMMIE, spoken]
To crisp 'em up

[CAROLINE, spoken]
Noah, scat
You’s bothering us, you's underfoot

[NOAH, spoken]
To symbolize the Temple Oil

[CAROLINE, spoken]
Dot, don't let the gravy boil
Noah, scoot, I got no use for you tonight

[EMMIE, spoken]
How about the goose? Does that mean something?

[NOAH, spoken]
That's just food

[ROSE]
Noah, out! It’s very rude
To bother people when they're busy
[ROSE, spoken]
You aren't needed in here
Is he?

[CAROLINE, spoken]
No, he ain't

[ROSE]
Go on, don't pout
Go on, out, and see our friends
He never listens!

[MR. STOPNICK]
The South is in a mighty frenzy

[ROSE]
Time to bring the latkes out!
Noah, tell them food is coming

[MR. STOPNICK]
Wait and see!
The old world's ending!
Negroes marching!
Change is coming!
Down with the filthy capitalist chazzerim!

[ROSE]
Come and visit with Grandpa Stopnick
All the way from New York City

[MR. STOPNICK]
Just like we predicted back in the thirties
All the Negroes got to do now
Is stop this nonsense about nonviolence

[GRANDMA & GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Scary, scary, such a tzimmes
Negroes in Louisiana
Aren't like in Mississippi
Not as mad as Alabama
Anyway, is this the way
To talk on Erev Chanukah?
Let's not dwell on ugly things
Let's thank God for the joys He brings
Watch the colored candles melt
Spin the dreidel for Chanukah gelt

[GRANDMA GELLMAN]
Let's be merry

[GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Let's be funny

[GRANDMA GELLMAN]
Noah, look!

[GRANDPA GELLMAN]
It's chocolate money!

[GRANDMA & GRANDPA GELLMAN]
Let's wish our Negro neighbors well

[MR. STOPNICK]
And may Bull Connor roast in hell

[THE GELLMANS & MR. STOPNICK]
Bull Connor! Pooh!

[GRANDMA & GRANDPA GELLMAN]
But tonight, let's just forget

[GRANDMA GELLMAN]
Stuart, play your clarinet