A Cappella group Shir Appeal from Tufts sings in So Cal

"Samson"

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the sheets of paper lies my truth
I have to go, I have to go
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
He ate a slice of wonder bread and went right back to bed
And history books forgot about us and the bible didn't mention us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first, I loved you first
Beneath the stars came fallin' on our heads
But they're just old light, they're just old light
Your hair was long when we first met

Samson came to my bed
Told me that my hair was red
Told me I was beautiful and came into my bed
Oh I cut his hair myself one night
A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light
And he told me that I'd done alright
And kissed me 'til the mornin' light, the mornin' light
And he kissed me 'til the mornin' light

Samson went back to bed
Not much hair left on his head
Ate a slice of wonderbread and went right back to bed
Oh, we couldn't bring the columns down
Yeah we couldn't destroy a single one
And history books forgot about us
And the bible didn't mention us, not even once

You are my sweetest downfall
I loved you first


It turns out that yesterday was "shabbat shira", the sabbath of song. It was the day of the reading of the torah passage about the splitting of the red sea and the musical celebration that followed. In honor of that, a Jewish a cappella choral group named Shir Appeal stopped at our synagogue on their January tour of Southern California. They were so good for a moment I wanted to try to convince these talented college students to give up living in Massachusetts and stay here to serenade me. But it was not to be. I will have to content myself by looking up their you tube videos, and there are a number of good ones. This one I posted is one of the few that were sung in English. I really love listening to a good chorus, especially these talented young people.