Yankel chords by Abie Rotenberg
Guitar chords with lyrics
- Difficulty: Beginner 👶
♫ Intro:
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♫ Verse :
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In a little town somewhere in Europe
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Just about a hundred years ago
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Lived a simple man his name was Yankel oh
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And this is how his story goes.
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Yankel couldn’t learn a blatt gemara
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Why, he barely knew to read and write
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Deep in his heart he loved to do the mitzvos
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But somehow he never seemed to get things right.
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He didn’t know his brachos, couldn’t say shema by heart
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He’d daven shmoneh esrei with his feet spread wide apart
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Everyone would laugh and snicker when he passed them by in shul
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Here comes Yankel Am Ha’aretz, could there be, a bigger fool.
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All the children would make fun of Yankel
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Teasing him as if he were a child
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But he never ever lost his temper
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On his face there was always a smile.
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Now the Rabbi tried to learn with Yankel
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So the young man would know how to cope
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In one ear but then out the other
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The Rabbi gave up, there simply was no hope.
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His ivreh was atrocious, the place he’d always lose
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He’d show up on Yom Kippur wearing shiny polished shoes
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Everyone would laugh and snicker when he passed them by in shul
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Here comes Yankel Am Ha’aretz, could there be, a bigger fool.
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Stubborn Yankel, he just kept on trying
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They all told him it’s a hopeless cause
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But he kept saying one day I’ll know how to
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Learn the Torah and keep its laws.
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Now one night the Rabbi fell asleep in shul
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Only to wake up when he heard a sigh
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It was Yankel by the aron kodesh
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And there were teardrops running from his eyes.
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He was saying “Master of the world
I know You hear my prayer
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And I accept my fate in life
Your judgment’s always fair
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Yet one thing I must ask You, where else am I to turn
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Could I not serve You so much more if I knew how to learn ”
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The rabbi sent Yankel to learn in yeshiva
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They all thought he’d lost his sanity
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He’ll be back in a week for certain
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All the Rabbi said was- wait and see.
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Yankel’s now a famous scholar, it just took a few short years
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For the gates of heaven never close, they never close for tears
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And everyone stands to shake his hand as he passes them in shul
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Here comes Yankel Talmid Chacham, how could we… have been such fools!
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