LYRIC
IN THE YEAR TSHA”G- Country Yossi- Wanted!
(Parody of “In the Year 2525”- Zager and Evans- Composed By Rick Evans)
In the year תשע״ג,
If Moshiach chas veshalom still hasn’t come down from Himmel,
If Boro Park can survive,
We may find…
In the year תשפ״ה,
If you buy an esrog, through the nose you’ll have to pay,
10,000 dollars, and what will you get,
What they call a chinuch set.
In the year תשצ״ו,
That’ll be a year every Jew will love,
No matter where you live, no matter what street,
There’ll be a Shteeble every 15 feet.
In the year כל ת״ת,
I tell you friends, life is gonna be rough,
You’ll have to earn a million dollars, I fear,
Just to pay your tuition each year.
In the year תתל״ט,
There’ll be a daily paper called the Jewish Press,
For 50 dollars, you can check it out, folks,
To see if Arnold Fine has run out of jokes, woah woah.
In the year תת״ן,
There’ll be bungalow colonies on the moon,
Everybody will leave Tuesday at 9
To arrive before licht bentching time.
In the year תת״פ,
Religious robots will be here to stay,
They’ll clean and cook and do whatever you say,
But they won’t work on Saturday, woah woah.
In the year תת״ש,
A Jewish president will finally win,
At his inauguration, he will say,
Es dacht zich mir es vet zein okay, woah woah.
Now it’s been 10,000 years,
Jews have a cried a billion tears,
Throughout their history,
Fulfilling destiny.
The shofar sounds so clear,
Moshiach’s finally here,
It seems so far away,
Maybe it’s only yesterday…
In the year תשע״ג,
If Moshiach still hasn’t come down from Himmel,
If Boro Park can survive,
We may find…
In the year תשפ״ה,
If you buy an esrog, through the nose you’ll have to pay,
10,000 dollars, and what will you get,
What they call a chinuch set…