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Thread #81174   Message #4120474
Posted By: GUEST
20-Sep-21 - 07:58 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: 'You, You Sons of Moses' Anti-Semitic
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: 'You, You Sons of Moses' Anti-Semitic
Yikes,

Tom
New Brunswick NJ, around 1946
Probably I learned it at Roosevelt Jr High School, I don't remember anyone singing it.

Some fragments

Boys who are in their teens
Join the Yiddish Marines
Fight, fight, fight for Palesteen (so pronounced)

Men who don't eat pork and gravy
Join the Yiddish Navy
Fight, fight, fight for Palesteen

I don't remember the Army verse, so I was happy to hear some versions

Only us Jewish kids knew the song. Not antisemitic but jokily irreverent. We young teens knew zilch about Palestine, about the fighting or the massive immigration from Europe. That, despite that I was a refugee from fascist Hungary.