Over on the YouTube page for it explains that
All Proceeds through the End of Hanukkah will be donated to Hurricane Sandy Relief.
For more info visit: http://bit.ly/MatisyahuHanukkah
Donate and download at http://bit.ly/MatisyahuHanukkah
Available on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/h55ln4
Available on Amazon: http://amzn.to/Tcev1n
Matisyahu & William Paid: Get an exclusive acoustic Matisyahu track, recorded live from Vancouver, for giving us a try: http://wpaid.it/TeKTzI
Directed by: Jungle George Pimentela
And in case you were interested in reading the lyrics, or as much of them as listeners were able to make out and post online, here they are:
Matisyahu – Happy Hanukkah Lyrics
Chorus:
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
Today is the day, tonight is the night
Sons of twilight had done come along, take flight
High and twinkling, and swindling and a shooting in the sky
I’m shining, and I’m feeling alright
Lite a candle for the one you love
Peace and light from below to above
Eight nights, celebrate till I flying in the sky like a dove
Let me unwind as I light up a flame in the name of the lion of Judah
Drop like a hammer when I feel like the Rimson shovel
Feel like a rubber when I hit like a train
Chorus:
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
To get into the cosmos flows in top
When I write to excite, now I’m fighting back
In the …(?) to divine, as it’s a better thing to spine (?)
It’s a battle from the ancient line
So now can ever, maccabee (?) till the end of time
You’re my light in the saddest time
Yes you bring piece to my mind
Won’t you please let me unwind
As I light up a flame in he name of the lion of Judah
Droṗ like a hammer when I feel like the Rimson shovel
Feel like rubber when I hit like a train
Chorus:
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
Celebration, get your hands up high, get your hands up high
Celebration, get your hands up high, get your hands up high
Celebration,
Celebration-bration-bration-bration
Chorus:
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
Happy Hanukkah! I wanna give a gift to you
Light up the night, my love shine through
From mount Zion, this is what we do, bring love to you
Celebration, get your hands up high, get your hands up high
Celebration, get your hands up high, get your hands up high
Celebration,
Celebration-bration-bration-bration
By the way, appropriately enough, Matisyahu, which is the Hebrew name that he grew up with, is an Ashkenazic Hebrew pronunciation of a Biblical Hebrew name מתתיהו (Mattityahu), which is rendered in Greek as Mattathias, the name of the leader of the Maccabees back in the 2nd century BCE. You can read more about the singer over on his Wikipedia entry, if you're interested.
And did you catch him on Leno the other night, performing Happy Hanukkah live for the Tonight Show audience? If not, here it is:
And with that, on behalf of Congregation Adas Emuno we say, Happy Hanukkah to one and all!
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