In the Sukkah At Least, It's a Wonderful World — a song for Sukkot by Len Fellman

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Date: 2024-10-21

Last Updated: 2025-02-18

Categories: Sukkot

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, sukkah songs, זמירות zemirot

Excerpt: "In the Sukkah At Least, It's a Wonderful World" by Len Fellman was written for Sukkot in 2015. . . .


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(to the tune of the Louis Armstrong song)
I see skhakh of green, red berries[1] for “berries” substitute flowers, roses, apples, ornaments, tchotchkes, etc. as appropriate  too,
they provide shelter for me and you.
In the sukkah at least, it’s a wonderful world.
I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,
the bright blessed day, the dark sacred night,
and I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
(bridge 1)
The colors of the rainbow, on the sukkah walls
and also on the faces of people big and small.
I see friends in the corner sayin’, “How do you do?”
They’re really sayin’ “I love you.”
When we sit in the sukkah, we know that we’re exposed,
but we’re safe and protected, as every Jew knows.
In the sukkah at least, it’s a wonderful world,
and I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
(musical interlude)
(bridge 2)
The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,
We see them in our neighbors when we look them in the eye.
I see friends walking in, saying “Ḥag same’aḥ to you”.
They’re really saying, “God loves you.”
The earth is a sukkah, a great one with no walls,
with clouds for the roof, and a canopy of stars.
When everybody knows this, what a wonderful world.
When the green earth is our sukkah, what a wonderful world.

“In the Sukkah At Least, It’s a Wonderful World” by Len Fellman was written for Sukkot in 2015.

 

Notes

Notes
1 for “berries” substitute flowers, roses, apples, ornaments, tchotchkes, etc. as appropriate

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