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THE THIEF'S PLAY, by                    
First Line: Open up open up
Last Line: Falls down dead
Subject(s): Holidays;jews;mysticism - Judaism; Judaism


ALL open up open up
n lat us in
we goink to make u heppy here
if u wimminz shud remember
what we done for u last year
now dot it's dis year
u shud lat us in again

JEW go lookink around u
fum all 4 sides
pretty soon dot tief is
comink ridink in

THIEF yas yas
I am the thief
& yer betcher I have cum here
ter sharpen me old knife
(he stamps his foot)
o baby I yam one big thief

JEW (he stamps his foot)
oy meester u are vun big tief
(he pleads)
so vhy u dunt take
mine last piece bread
u shudnt foist kill me
tief tief tief

THIEF I don't wantcher
last piece bread
but I do want to kill yer
Jew Jew Jew
(he stamps his foot)
oh baby I yam one big thief

JEW (he stamps his foot)
oy meester u are vun big tief
(he pleads)

so vhy u dunt take
mine last piece cake
u shud lat me foist see
mine dotter merried off

THIEF I dont wantcher
last piece cake
& I couldn't care less
boutcher daughter married off
(he stamps his foot)
oh baby I yam one big thief

JEW (he stamps his foot)
oy meester u are vun big tief
(he pleads)
so vhy u dunt take
mine last piece fish
u shud lat me foist give
to mine fambly ah kiss

THIEF I dont wantcher
last piece fish
I dont wantcher ter give
yer famly a kiss
(he stamps his foot)
oh baby I yam one big thief

JEW (he stamps his foot)
oy meester u are vun big tief
(he pleads)
so vhy u dunt take
mine last liddle piece chicken
u shud lat me foist be
ah fodder by mine children

THIEF I don't wantcher
last little piece chicken
I don't wantcher ter be
a father to yer children
(he stamps his foot)
oh baby I yam one big thief

JEW (he stamps his foot)
oy meester u are vun big tief
(he pleads)
so vhy u dunt take
mine last piece money
u shud lat me foist live
till ah handert mit twanty

THIEF I dont wantcher
last piece uh money
I dont wantcher ter live
till a hunnert n twunny
(he stamps his foot)
oh baby I yam one big thief
JEW (he stamps his foot)
oy meester u are vun big tief
(the thief swats the Jew with his sword & the Jew
falls down dead)


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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