1. Sinai – Exodus 19 (5:18)

ויהי ביום השלישי בהיות הבוקר
ויהי קולות וברקים וענן כבד על ההר
וקול שופר חזק מאד

Generations proclaim
הנני of faith
נעשה ונשמע
נעשה ונשמע
One heart one soul
נעשה ונשמע

אתם ראיתם אשר עשיתי למצרים
ואשא אתכם על כנפי נשרים
ואבא אתכם אלי
ויענו כל העם יחדיו
We were there
On holy ground
We raised our voices
And shouted out as one
ויהי ביום השלישי בהיות הבוקר
ויהי קולות וברקים וענן כבד על ההר
וקול שופר חזק מאד

Generations proclaim
הנני of faith
נעשה ונשמע
נעשה ונשמע
One heart one soul
נעשה ונשמע

2. Let Us Build (5:22)

Let us build up the walls of Jerusalem
Let us climb up the hills of Jerusalem
Where we walk proud and tall
As we hear the ancient call
Let us dance through the streets
of Jerusalem

Let our spirits leap and soar
in Jerusalem
As our soul is restored in Jerusalem
Time to find peace and love
And give thanks to God above
And live our dream of Jerusalem

So many died so many cried in your
name
So long we sighed so long denied yet
we came
Now let’s hold up our head
Without fear without dread
Let return let’s sojourn in Jerusalem

Come and bask in the glow of
Jerusalem
No more pain no more woe in
Jerusalem
Where we sing songs of praise
All our nights all our days
Let us drink of your wine oh Jerusalem

Let us touch the Western Wall
oh Jerusalem
Go and tell all the world Jerusalem
Now we wander no more

As we walk through your door
Let us now live our dream of Jerusalem
So many died so many cried in your
name
So long we sighed so long denied yet
we came
Now let’s hold up our head
Without fear without dread
Let return let’s sojourn in Jerusalem

No need to roam we have our home
Here at last
So many years so many tears
In our past
Now we live and we build
We build your sacred walls
We have our home for it’s our own
Jerusalem
We have our home Jerusalem is home

3. Shalom (4:14)

שלום שלום על עם ישראל
שלום שלום על ארץ ישראל
על כל ישראל
Forever and ever שלום

That’s what we hope and pray
Let there be peace today
Shalom, shalom
Let the sun spread its rays
Together we say
Let there be joy

4. Rachel’s Children (4:52)

We are Rachel’s children
And we carry her name
We are Rachel’s children
And we light her flame
We see her strength
Her dignity
We know her sacrifice
We are Rachel’s children
Calling her name

We are Rachel’s children
And we bear her pain
We are Rachel’s children
May it not be in vain
Buried alone
Beit Lechem road
No peace within her soul
We are Rachel’s children

Crying her name
From Jerusalem to Odessa
From Chevron
and through out diaspora
She is our soul
She is our heart
Our loving matriarch
We are Rachel’s children
Calling her name
We are Rachel’s children
More than three thousand years

We are Rachel’s children
And we share her tears
May we learn may we return
For days of old we yearn
We are Rachel’s children
Calling her name

We are Rachel’s children
Together in prayer
We are Rachel’s children
Now and forever
Survivors of the ghetto
Scars that still remains
We are Rachel’s children
Crying her name

From Jerusalem to Odessa
From Chevron
and through out diaspora
She is our soul
She is our heart
Our loving matriarch
We are Rachel’s children
Crying her name

5. On The Wings of Song (4:40)

Can you see him coming
Listen even now
Waiting for the day
Can you hear his footsteps
Silently we pray
Moshiach is heading our way

Can you feel our sadness
Won’t you look and see
Your people are yearning for thee
Can you hear our hearts cry
Reach into our soul
Oh listen to our call

Bimhera Beyamenu
The moment is surely right for you
Moshiach on the wings of song
We have waited and dreamed
for so long
Can you see our tear drops
Falling like rain
Heavens are heavy with our pain
Don’t you see the darkness
Shadowing our day

Now it’s time

To bring the light we pray

6. Let My People Stay (4:31)

In a place called Gush-Katif
He stands in disbelief
The boy looks sadly all around
Beneath the blinding sun

I was born and here I grew
The waves the sea the sandy dunes
Now they say I must leave
The only home I knew

We live here my friends and I
For here we do belong
Can you look into our eyes
All hopes and dreams will die

Can we forsake the flowers
Could we leave the fragrant trees
The gardens of our fathers
And the fields of velvet green

Let my people stay
Don’t break our heart
Tear us apart
Don’t take our light away
Let my people stay
I’m walking without fear
My faith and courage ever strong
God gave this land to us
Turned the sand to seed

Still I feel unease with dawn
Never really sure
And a shadow pales the rising sun
And a shiver deep inside

A sudden blast in the night
Glaring eyes of hate
Every road every turn
What will be our fate

Can we forsake the flowers
Could we leave the fragrant trees
The gardens of our fathers
And the fields of velvet green

Let my people stay
Don’t break our heart
Tear us apart
Don’t take our light away
Let my people stay

7. Double Trouble (4:36)

It’s far away we like to say
And harm will never come our way
It’s far away we fool ourselves
The twisted shapes just child’s play

The paint will never find our door
The hate will never reach our shore
Feeling safe and secure
Wake-up fast it’s coming here

Sweat of Israel on our brow
Reaching into our single soul
Painful memory in our heart
For we are two halves

Double trouble
Double trouble is here
Wake-up brother don’t you hear
Double trouble
Double trouble is near
Lift your eyes and face the fear

Hiding from reality
Fearful sign of the times
It was only yesterday
Ashen skies turned to fire

Flimsy mask of ease we wear
Blindly wrapped around our mind
Holding on to our illusions
Fearing just what we may find

The cry of Israel rising high
You are not alone we are one
The voice of Israel vows with ours
Never never again

Double trouble
Double trouble is here
Wake-up brother don’t you hear
Double trouble
Double trouble is near
Lift your eyes and face the fear

8. Hero of a Nation (4:08)

On a hill in Judea
A golden morning light
She waits for the school bus
Her children by her side
She waves to the children
And silently she prays
Dear God protect the children

She’s a hero of a nation
Her quiet valor shines
She’s a mother of her people
And her faith endures with time
She’s a rock of the desert
Water sweet as wine
Fierce as a lioness
Sing her praise

A breeze calms the heat of day
The bus should soon arrive
The time is late she worries
The hour is half past five
She stands in the twilight
A wrinkle cross her brow
As fear clouds up her face

She’s a rock of the desert
Water sweet as wine
Fierce as a lioness
Sing her praise
She watches as the soldier
Slowly walks her way
Her heart breaking with each step
Her soul aches with pain
And he starts to tell her
She already knows
The bus of laughing children
Won’t be coming back

She’s a hero she’s a hero
She’s a mother of her people
And her faith endures with time
She’s a rock of the desert
Water sweet as wine
Fierce as a lioness
Sing her praise

The mother cries for her children
So swiftly torn away
She cries for a nation
That’s slowly lost its way
How many more must die now
Before it is enough
Awake, awake oh Israel

9. Don’t Give Our Land Away (6:29)

He stands all alone
Amid the swirling storm
A man abandoned and forlorn
Here in Shomron
Sweet ancient home
Forgotten for too long

Once was a day
A moment in life
Everything would change
He opened the page
Came face to face
Awoke to his destiny

From our early dawn
Hope was never gone
Though we faced the unknown
Wandering through centuries
Braving sand and sea
Now we have our home

He yearned for the land
Made hopeful plans
There a year he would spend
The year quickly flew
His love grew and grew
For his fathers homeland

He knew he couldn’t leave
He truly did believe
He walked the path of history
Planted a tree
Raised a family
In Judea his future would be

He settled the land
The Torah in his hand
With faith and promise
in his heart

Don’t give our land away
Eyes dark and wide
A heart filled with pride
For his torrid legacy
The courage and tears
Triumph and fears
He questioned, how and why

He feels a sense of dread
Dark clouds overhead
Shouts of thunder sound anew
He must not become
A stranger in his home

Don’t give our land away

10. Nagilah (3:49)

הבא נגילה
ונשמחה
עורו אחים בלב שמח

Repeat

11. Pollard (4:25)

Many years we heard his name
And quickly we passed by
Untouched by his tragedy
For us the time did fly
His days within four dreary walls
His nights the very same
Below the surface of the earth
Caught in some cruel game

Can you feel his pain
Can you sleep in peace
Can you just walk by
Can you live your life
While he lives in strife

Repeat

So many years
Abandoned and alone
He mulls his fate in disbelief
So many miles from home
He ponders on humanity
And justice for us all
After all these dismal years
Would someone hear his call
Can you feel his pain
Can you sleep in peace
Can you just walk by
Can you live your life
While he lives in strife

Many years he paid the price
For following his heart
Pursuing what he felt was right
He dared to do his part
He wasn’t fearful for himself
His conscience at his side
Unwilling to watch and see
While his people died
For Jonathan Pollard the time
has come
To end this long nightmare

12. Too Many Years (5:38)

These are the names of the MIA’s
Lions of Israel taken away
Missing in action too many years
How can we forget their tears

Faces on a poster
Captured by the beast
Many miles from home

Too many years in captivity
Too many years of cruelty
Endless days of pain and suffering
Too many years in a cold cruel land
Years of fear and wondering
Will they see their families again

We cannot forget our brave young men
It’s our promise to free them
Let’s bring them home
Will the daily nightmare come to an end
Will their broken spirit ever mend
Let’s bring them home
These are the names of fathers and sons
Israel’s children too long gone
How can we just sit idly by
As they cry don’t let us die

What are they doing what do they feel
Waiting for rescue the danger so real
Can they continue – can they believe
Too many years in captivity
Too many years of cruelty
Endless days of pain and suffering
Too many years in a cold cruel land
Years of fear and wondering
Will they see their families again

We cannot forget our brave young men
It’s our promise to free them
Let’s bring them home
Will the daily nightmare come to an end
Will their broken spirit ever mend
Let’s bring them home

13. Don’t Give Up (5:45)

Beyond a calm horizon
a fire in the sky
a rising haze of grey
the world’s blazing cry
The earth is turning upside down
hale of fear and fury
circling winds of malice
tearing us apart

A whirl of disillusion
illusive peace of mind
we listen and we brace
a sudden flash of sound
Endless stream of madness
the game of life and death
Scars of our misfortune
the depth of our despair

Oh, fragile heroes
on the path of right and reason
riding on the tide of truth

Don’t give up
don’t give up
Gather all your strength
Don’t give up
don’t give up
Time to take a stand
Bound by courage
Filled with hope
we will find the way
don’t, don’t give up
Oh, don’t, don’t give up

Another dawn rises
yesterday is gone
the light of our spirit glows
with dreams of our heart
A long and trying journey
Twist and turn of fate
Today is our tomorrow
The future in our hand

Oh, Fragile heroes
on the path of right and reason
riding on the tide of truth

Don’t give up
don’t give up
Gather all your strength
Don’t give up
don’t give up
Time to take a stand
Bound by courage
Filled with hope
we will find the way
don’t, don’t give up

Don’t give up
don’t give up
Gather all your strength
Don’t give up
don’t give up
Time to take a stand
Bound by courage
Filled with hope
we will find the way
don’t, don’t give up
Oh, don’t, don’t give up