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This was originally written for the 2010 Zunior.com holiday compilation "A Country Blues Christmas." Half-hearted apologies to any of my fellow Jews who might be offended by me first stealing the traditional melody of the Hanukkah candle-lighting blessing, and then actually including the blessing itself in a song that also talks about being sad and drunk during this joyous celebration. Life is complicated.

Recorded by Michael Feuerstack at his apartment in Montreal in 2010.

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Well it’s that time of year once again:
Eight days of candles and family and friends
But I’ve got no cards or presents to send
No grandma to make me no latkes
Just this bottle of discount brand vodka, so I sing:

It’s late, it’s dark, and it’s cold
And the houses are covered in snow
I’ve lost my keys, and I’ve lost my job
And I’m lonely, and I’m drunk
Happy Hanukkah.

It’s a holiday about a miracle and a war
But I don’t feel very merry and I don’t think I can drink anymore
I’ve tried playing dreidel by myself
Somehow I still manage to lose
Whenever us Jews get the blues, we just pray:

Baruch atah, Adonai Eloheinu, Melech haolam,
asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav v’tsivanu
l’hadlik ner shel Hanukkah. 

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from Mathias Kom's Holy Hullabaloo, released December 4, 2020

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The Burning Hell is the ongoing musical project of songwriter Mathias Kom and multi-instrumentalists Ariel Sharratt and Jake Nicoll, often including additional comrades and collaborators.

Their densely populated genre-shifting songs are packed with an abundance of literary, historical, cultural, and pop-cultural forebears, heroes and villains, subjects and objects, stories and hooks.
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