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KEN YOVDU

(learned in about 1953 from Lucile Czarnowski at UC Berkeley)

Ken yovdu, yovehdu
    (Then will they perish, all your enemies)
Kol oy vechu, yovehdu,
    (Then will they perish, all your enemies)
Ken yovdu, ken yovehdu,
    (Then will they perish, all your enemies)
Kol oy ve', k'yisrael,
    (All the enemies of Israel)
    Ohavav ketzeteh ha shemesh
        (And your friends shall be like the sun)
    Bigyvurato,
        (In its rising in all its strength)
    Ohavav ketzeteh ha shemesh bigyvurato,

(from miriam berg's folk dance song collection)