sung to the tune of Runaround Sue by the Beach Boys

Here’s a story from Exodus -

It’s about a group of Jews like us.

Took our bread, ran for the sea

To get out of slavery.

Ohhhhhhhhh -

Moses should have known from the very start -

Raised Egyptian with a Jewish heart,

Killed a slave-master, fled to a new land,

Then he kibitzed with a burning plant -

Brought a message down from God to Pharaoh,

Said “you better let those folks of mine go”

So if you don’t want 10 plagues plaguing you -

Let them become the runaround Jews

Blood and frogs and hail and lice, yeah

Boils and darkness, locusts and flies,

The cattle and the first-born died, yeah -

Pharaooooh had to realize -

Oh, the story concludes with Moses showing the way,

Then we would wander with two tablets of clay

For 40 years after flying the coop -

And we became the Runaround Jews

Oh . . . Moses had to choose

Could he be a Jew?

Did what he had to do!  Ohhhhhhhhh

We started traveling around, yeah

In Sinai when that mess went down

Now people eating matzah for lunch

We knooooow we’re God’s chosen bunch

Now you ask any simple child what to do

Just recline and sing Dayenu

Runaround jews are the crème de la creme

We’ll see you next year in Jerusalem

Oh - eretz yisrael

Oh that land is so swell

We’ll stay in a hotel!


haggadah Section: Songs
Source: Jessa Forsythe-Crane & Eric Marley