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Allan Sherman
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A Few Words About The Chinese New Year
Lyricist:Allan Sherman
Now this next song was a big hit comedy song Before I was born and I took this song and modernized it, I hope The hero of the song was originally Jewish and I made him Chinese Which is no small achievement, actually
Uh and the reason I did that was that a couple months ago In January, I was appearing in San Francisco And it happened to be during the Chinese New Year
And I learned that to the Chinese people, this is the year 4664 And of course to the Jewish people, this is the year 5726 Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Which means that for 1062 years Jewish people have had to do their own laundry
Now this is a very tender, poignant song, actually It's beautiful if you want to know I figure I better tell you it's beautiful before I start singing it Because once I start you'll have no way of knowing that it's beautiful
This is a song about a man who walks into a tailor And tells him a very sad story and it goes like this
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