THE PARENTS OF LEONARD
Tune: "The Sisters of Mercy" by Leonard Cohen
Words: Stephen L. Suffet © 2001

Oh, the parents of Leonard are wondering where they went wrong,
Their Yiddishah boy writes such meshuggenah songs,
And clearing out engrams was something they never knew,
For they raised little Leonard to be a Montreal Jew.

Now at his bar mitzvah he sang his haftorah like a mensch,
And Leonard's been singing that very same way ever since,
If you're wondering where he first learned that style of his,
He probably heard it from the moyl way back at his bris.

Oh, the parents of Leonard had hoped he would go to McGill,
A doctor he'd be and all of their hopes he'd fulfill,
Stead of singing of harlots and L. Ronnie Hubbard's strange way,
Oh, what did we do that our Leonard should treat us this way?

[Repeat first stanza.]