Chords for "Zaidy" by Moshe Yess

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_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ The best day of [Gb] my life _ _ happened _ almost three years ago _ _ when [Eb] I felt for the first time the
wheels of the El Al jet touched down [Gb] in Israel. _ _ _
[Cm] And Sholem and I are _ _ [Bb] both very proud to say that we [Ab] now live _ in [Gb] Jerusalem.
_ _ Every day, _ _ every day when you walk down the beautiful streets of our holy city, it's [Bbm] really
not too hard _ [Ab] to think back _ [Gb] upon the millions of Jewish people down through the centuries
of our history _ who would have given [Bbm] every single [Gb] thing that they [Ab] owned _ just for [Gb] the
privilege _ of putting their hand on the western wall as we've been allowed to do in our lives. _ _ _ _
One of the [Bb] people who never had a chance to come to Israel _ was my [Gb] grandfather.
_ _ As most of you know, _ _ a grandfather in Yiddish is called [Ab] a Zaydi.
_ _ [Gb] Well, this next song, _ _ it's partly true. _ _
_ It is partly [Bb] about _ my Zaydi _ [Bbm] _ and _ _ partly about yours.
_ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ My Zaydi [Bbm] _ _ lived with us [Db] _
_ in [Eb] my parents' [Ebm] home. _
_ _ _ [Bb] He used to laugh, he put me on his [Gb] knee. _
_ [F] _ _ [Eb] And he spoke about [Gb] his life in [Bbm] Poland.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Gb] He spoke _ [F] but with a bitter _ _ memory. _ _ _ _ _ _
He [Gb] spoke about the [Db] soldiers _ who would [Eb] beat him. _ _ _ _
They [Bb] laughed at him, they tore his long black coat.
_ [F] _ _ _
[Eb] He spoke about a synagogue _ that [Db] they burnt down.
_ _ [Gb] And the crying _ that was heard [C] beneath [F] the smoke.
_ _ _ _ _ But [Ebm]
Zaydi made [Bbm] us laugh.
_ _ [Ebm] _
Zaydi made [Bbm] us sing.
_ And [Ebm] Zaydi [Ab] made a [Gb] kiddish Friday [Cm] night.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ And [Ebm] Zaydi, oh [Eb] my Zaydi, how [Bbm] I love him [Ab] so.
_ [Bb] _
[C] And Zaydi used to [Fm] teach me [F] wrong from right.
_ _ _ His [Bb] eyes lit up [Db] when he would [Ebm] teach me Torah.
_ _ He [Bbm] taught me every [Gb] line so carefully.
_ [F] _ _ [Eb] He spoke about [Gb] our slavery _ [C]
[Bbm] in Egypt.
_ _ _ [Gb] And how God took [C] us out to make [F] us free.
_ _ But _ _ _
[Eb] winter [Bb] went by, [Eb] _
summer _ came [C] along.
I [Ebm] went to [Ab] camp to [Fm] run and play.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] And when I [Bb] came back home they said,
_ _ _ [Fm] Zaydi's gone _ _ [F] and all his [Gb] books were packed [F] and stored away. _ _ _ _
I [Bbm] don't know how [Db] or why it [Ebm] came to be.
It _ _ [Bb] _
happened slowly over many [F] years. _
_ _ [Eb] We just stopped being Jewish like my Zaydi [Bbm] was.
_ _ [F] And no one cared enough to shed a tear. _ _ _
_ _ But [Ebm] Zaydi made us [Bbm] laugh.
_ _ [Ebm] Zaydi [Bb] made us sing.
_ And [Gb] Zaydi made [Ab]
us say their place of night. _ _
_ _ [Ebm] And Zaydi, [Ab] oh my Zaydi, how I [Db] love him [Ab] so.
_ _ [F] And Zaydi used [Cm] to teach me [F] wrong from right. _ _
And many [Bbm] winters went by, [Eb] many summers came along.
[Gb] _ And [Bb] now [Ab] my children [Gb] sit in front of me.
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Gb] Will be the Zaydi _ of [Bbm] my children. _ _ _ _
_ [F] Who will [Gb] be their Zaydi [F] if not me? _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] Who will be the Zaydi of [Db] our children? _ _
_ _ _ [F] Who will be their [Gb] Zaydi _ if [Fm] not me? _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Ebm] And Zaydi made us [Bbm] laugh.
_ _ [Ebm] Zaydi [Bbm] made us sing.
_ [Eb] And Zaydi [Ab]
made a kiddish [Fm] Friday night.
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_ _ _ [Ebm] And [C] Zaydi, oh [Eb] my _ [Ab] Zaydi, how [Bb] I love him so. _ _
[Gb] And Zaydi [F] used to teach [Cm] me _ wrong [Bbm] from right. _ _
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