MCC Theater held a virtual open call for submissions to their “Miscast” benefit, in which singers perform theater songs that they wouldn’t ordinarily get to sing. Rabbi Sol Solomon chose this number from the Melvin Van Peebles concept album-turned-Broadway musical, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death.
LYRICS:
PUT A JEWISH CURSE ON YOU
Put a curse on you.
Put a curse on you.
May all your children marry goyim, too.
Yo mama charged by the pound to buy herring by the ounce
May your young daughters marry an Uber driver, too
Put a curse on you, goddammit
Put a curse on you.
May your folks kiss the tuchas of your enemy’s god, too
And every time you get a new hip, may HaShem put pain in the old one, too
Put a Klala on you
Put a curse on you.
To Heaven you’ll never go
May all your toilets overflow
Sour milk in your egg creams, too
Put a curse on you
Put a curse on you
All the men are nervous wrecks
All the women don’t like sex
You’ll know what it means to be a Jew.
Put a curse on you
Put a curse on you
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