Chorus
My faither was born a Hebrew
My faither was born a Jew
My faither was born a Hebrew
And I am a Hebrew too

It is five thousand years
Since my faither's folk all fled
In search of milk and honey
And by Moses they were led

Now Jesus was a preacher
He was heard by quite a few
But when he was going around the place
They said 'He's just a Jew'.

A lauddie needs his lassie
A lassie needs her laud
But they didna understand
Till they sent for Sigmund Freud

The workers worked in dungeons
They didna have a pal
But then along comes Charlie
And he writes Das Kapital

The atom was a tiny thing
The scientists all knew
Along comes Abey Einstein
And splits the thing in two

There's good and bad in Scotia
There's good in Timbuktu
There's good and bad in every lad
So dinnae run doon the Jew