Brains are weird

[cjsmith]

I just saw a 45RPM of Hava Nagila. I haven't heard that song in ages - easily years. I just saw the song title printed on the label of a record. And I realized, slowly, that I knew all the words. (It should be noted that I am not Jewish, nor do I know more than a few words of Hebrew. I never did know the meaning of any of the words of this song. But I can sing the whole thing.) It's probably been ten years, and it may have been twenty, since I've seen or heard the words.

Brains are weird.

[...i can smell your spicy brains...]

Comments

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

My dad's old bluegrass band played that song. He jokingly called it a "portuguess folk song" (he's portugues).

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Bluegrass Hava Nagilah! I love it!

[lkeele.livejournal.com]

Yeah, brains are weird all right. When you mentioned the song title, MY brain immediately jumped to my dad's version: "Hava Nagila, Have a tortilla"

Yup. Weird.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

When I told Rob I remembered the words, he started making up goofy things like that. "Wouldn't you like to have a Nagila too", he said (to the tune of the old Dr. Pepper ads). Then we came up with the Hava Nagila Monster, with the face of a lizard and the tail turning into one of those little spinning clacker thingies.