The Four Questions

Why is it only

on Passover night

we never know how

to do anything right?

We don't eat our meals

in the regular ways,

the ways that we do

on all other days.

`Cause on all other nights

we may eat

all kinds of wonderful

good bready treats

like big purple pizza

that tastes like a pickle,

crumbly crackers

and pink pumpernickel,

and tiger on rye,

fifty felafels in pita,

fresh-fried,

and doughnuts with one hole

and doughnuts with four,

and cake with six layers

and windows and doors.

Yes--

on all other nights

we eat all kinds of bread,

but tonight of all nights

we munch matzah instead.

And on all other nights

we devour

vegetables, green things,

and bushes and flowers,

lettuce that's leafy

and candy-striped spinach,

fresh silly celery

But on Passover night

you would never consider

eating an herb

that wasn't all bitter

And on all other nights

you would probably flip

if anyone asked you

how often you dip.

On some days I only dip

one Bup-Bup egg

in a teaspoon of vinegar

mixed with nutmeg,

Or we don't dip at all!

We don't ask your advice.

So why on this night

do we have to di twice?

And on all other nights

we can sit as we please,

on our heads, on our elbows,

our backs or our knees,

or hang by our toes

Yes--

on all other nights

you sit nicely when dining--

So why on this night

must it all be reclining?


haggadah Section: Maggid - Beginning