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My name is King Cyrus, my order I give
You Jews can go back to your home
To build your holy temple again
In the land of Palestine
We've sung and danced o'er the hot rocky road
Back to Eretz Yisroel's land
We worked with plow and rake and hoe
And we blessed the works of our hands
My name is Ezra the teacher man
I brought my scroll book along
I brought my flock to Yisrael
From that land called Babylon
I'll read you my Talmud Torah book
And the prophet's dreams to you
And you'll be fertile and multiply
If you keep your Torah true
My name is Alexander the Great
More than half of this wide world is mine
Come stand around, my servants all
I'm wrapped on my bed here to die
As the king of Syria and Palestine
Antiochus the Fourth you'll stand
To kill the Jews if they refuse
To worship our idols and gods
My name is Hannah, my firstborn son
Now stands before this king
Guilty of keeping the Sabbath laws
By the soldiers I see him slain
It's one by one my seven sons
In front of my eyes cut down
For keeping to the Torah laws
I pay with my warm blood now
My name's Mattathias, I've got five sons
In Modin city we dwell
They tried to make me bow down to their gods
Two of the king's flunkies I killed
A hundred or more who'll fight to be Jews
Did come to these hills with me
On my deathbed your leader I'll name
'Tis Judah the Maccabee
Oh my name is Judah the Maccabee
By the name of the hammer I'm called
We'll pray to God before every fight
Till all of our enemies fall
Apollonius the governor this day I killed
And his army we did bust
Some few of his soldiers run away with the wind
But most we've dropped dead in the dust
Oh, Cyrus my name, from Syria came