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The Simple Son

from The Simple Son by Chaim Bezalel

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One night, when Mars and Jupiter were aligned, my wife, Yonnah, was on the porch looking through a telescope. In the morning she asked, "Would you please write a song about the stars?" This song just came to me. The Simple son, is the fourth son in the Passover Haggadah who doesn't even know how to ask. The song also references a passage from the Talmud, "When a child is born, a still small voice calls out in heaven, "The daughter of so and so to so and so.

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Somewhere in the heavenlies a voice cries out
When a match is made
This one for that one, the voice calls out
So is is said.
You may think that there are more important things to do
Than cry out loud upon a cloud concerning me and you

You gaze at the sky while I'm lying, asleep in the night
Some stars are being born and some dying, by the time we see their light.

Do you think that everything follows a plan
World without end.
Do you think that there is some invisible hand,
Not just pretend,
Working out the good in all to triumph over the wrong.
Is that the thing you want to sing together in this song.

I don't have the answer; there were times I thought I did.
Sometimes truth is like a dancer, seven veils to keep her hid.

Somewhere inside me a voice explains
We are each a star
Giving out the light that we contain
Whether near or far.
One by one or sometimes in a constellation's tow
Through a glass we see if at all darkly where we come from, where we go.

As we sit around the table. As we each lift up our glass,
I'm like the simple son in the fable, or the one who doesn't know how to ask.

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from The Simple Son, released December 8, 2020
music and lyrics by Chaim Bezalel
guitar and vocals - Chaim Bezalel
accordion - Ron Zentner
voice - Yonnah Ben Levy
percussion - Clay M. Thompson

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Chaim Bezalel Stanwood, Washington

My mother had a collection of 78 rpm records of folk music and I became a folk music lover from a young age. I attended festivals and concerts, sat with Libba Cotten when she sang Freight Train. I learned to pick sitting in Washington Square as a teenager. However, I did not begin writing songs until my 50's. I am also a poet and artist. I live in Wasnhington State and in Israel. ... more

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