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Saturday, June 2, 2018

"99 Jews air their views..." Half a Hundred Hebrews Haunt the Al-Buraq Wall But None Sneezes At It -- For It's Nothing to Sneeze At: A Constrained Abecedarial Drinking Song

99 Jews air their views at the Wall.
99 Jews airing views.
If one with El Youssef gets into a brawl,
there'll be 98 Jews airing views at the Wall.

98 Hebrews a-schmooze at the Wall.
98 Jews dishing schmooze.
If one Jew's unable to borrow a shawl, 
there'll be 90 plus 7 a-schmooze at the Wall.

90-plus-7 Jews choosing the Wall. 
90-plus-7 Jews choose.
If one Jew stops praying ("This kippah's too small")
there'll be 96 Jews left to choose at the Wall. 

96 Jews chugging booze at the Wall.
96 Jews chugging booze.
If one belts "Baruch!" in a West-Texas drawl,
there'll be 95 Jews chugging booze at the wall.

95 Jews queue in twos at the Wall.
95 Jews queue in twos.
If one Jew does stunts with a medicine ball,
there’ll be 94 queueing in twos at the Wall.

94 Jews sing the blues at the Wall.
94 Jews singing blues.
If one departs early for nosh at the mall,
there’ll be 93 Jews singing blues at the Wall.

93 Jews pay their dues at the Wall.
93 Jews paying dues.
If one supports “Two-State” – (“‘twere three parts in Gaul…”)
there’ll be 92 Jews paying dues at the Wall.

92 Jews light a fuse at the Wall.
92 Jews light a fuse.
If one sets his bomb off, thus giving his all,
there’ll be 91 Jews with a fuse at the Wall.

91 Jews doff their shoes at the Wall.
91 Jews doffing shoes.
If one, thinking twice, keeps his on after all,
there’ll be 90-some Jews doffing shoes at the Wall.

90-some Jews look for loos near the Wall.
90-some Jews look for loos.
If one leaves the quarter to “answer the call,”
there’ll be 89 Jews without loos at the Wall.

89 Jews search for clues at the Wall.
89 Jews search for clues.
If one finds a shekel, one minted by Saul,
there’ll be 88 Jews with no clues at the Wall.

88 Jews take their cues at the Wall.
88 Jews taking cues.
If one cries, “I am big: the pictures grew small,”
there’ll be 7 plus 80 old Jews at the Wall.

Jews – 87! -- wipe ooze from the Wall.
Jews – 87! -- wipe ooze.
If one eschews soap, using grain alcohol,
there’ll be 86 Jews wiping ooze from the Wall.

86 Jews fasten screws to the Wall.
86 Jews fasten screws.
If one, name of Ringo, hangs portraits of Paul,
there’ll be 85 Jews setting screws in the Wall.

85 Jews slaughter gnus at the Wall.
85 Jews slaughter gnus.
Of one, to keep kosher, must shutter his stall,
there’ll be 84 Jews killing gnus at the Wall.

84 Jews bare tattoos at the Wall.
84 Jews bare tattoos.
If one wears “For Mom” in a heart – and that’s all,
there’ll be 83 stark-naked Jews at the Wall.

83 Jews shear their ewes at the Wall.
83 Jews shear their ewes.
If one shaves his sheep a bit close (hear 'em bawl?),
there’ll be 82 Jews shearing ewes at the Wall.

82 Jews hop their brews at the Wall.
82 Jews hopping brews.
If one brews a Ghorka, as brewed in Nepal,
there’ll be 81 Jews hopping brews at the Wall.

81 Jews plot their coups at the Wall.
81 Jews plotting coups.
If one says to Yasser, “You’re takin’ the fall,”
there’ll be 80-some Jews plotting coups at the Wall.

80-some Jews recruit crews at the Wall.
80-some Jews recruit crews.
If one cries, “I’m hiring no blokes from Bhopal,”
there’ll be 79 Jewish scouts at the Wall.

79 Hebrews cruising the Wall.
79 Hebrews cruise.
If one, though named Abd, finds a date after all,
there’ll be 78 Hebrews cruising the Wall.

78 Jews down Dews at the Wall.
78 downing Dews.
If one to club soda’s seen being in thrall,
there’ll be 77 Dew’d Jews at the Wall.

77 Jews lose at the Wall.
77 Jews lose.
If on Jew, against all odds, wins after all,
there’ll be 76 Jews who lose at the Wall.

76 Jews plant yews at the Wall.
76 Jews plant yews.
If one Jew plants pin oaks instead – all too tall --
there’ll be 75 sapling yews at the Wall.

75 Jews bring Siouxs to the Wall.
75 Jews bring Siouxs.
If one chants, “Chief Smoke won’t, though maybe his squaw’ll,”
there’ll be 74 Jews with Siouxs at the Wall.

74 Jews tame shrews at the Wall.
74 Jews tame shrews.
If Shakespeare’s King John one would then overhaul,
there’ll be 73 Jew-tamed shrews at the Wall.

73 Hebrews snooze at the Wall.
73 Hebrews snooze.
If one, wakened rudely, commences to bawl,
there’ll be 72 Jews a-snooze at the Wall.

72 Jews cook stews at the Wall.
72 Jews cook stews.
If one adds not Riesling but grain alcohol,
there’ll be 71 stewed Jews strewn ‘round the Wall.

71 Jews hear “Nu?”s at the Wall.
71 Jews hear “Nu?”s
If one suspects Yiddish expressions appall,
there’ll be 70 Jews hearing “Nu?”s at the Wall.

70 Jews defame Druze at the Wall.
70 Jews defame Druze.
If one Jew acknowledges, “That’s a foul ball,”
there’ll be 69 Jews dissing Druze at the Wall.

69 Jews spit their chews on the Wall.
69 Jews spitting chews.
If one says, “My Beechnut to spew I refuse,”
there’ll be 68 Jews spewing chews at the Wall.

68 Jews faking news at the Wall
68 Jews faking news.
If one of them says, “You can’t fight city hall,”
67 fake news Jews there’ll be at the Wall.

60-pus-7 Jews sue near the Wall.
60-plus-7 Jews sue.
If one Jew then settles (“I hate the long haul”),
there’ll be 66 Jews with disputes near the Wall.

66 Jews treading sloughs near the Wall.
66 Jews treading sloughs.
If one Jew goes down but continues to crawl,
there’ll be 65 Jews treading sloughs near the Wall.

65 Jews comb their dos at the Wall.
65 Jews comb their dos.
If one of them opts for a synthetic fall,
there’ll be 64 Jews combing dos at the Wall.

64 Jews catch bird flus at the Wall.
64 Jews catching flus.
If one tries a vaccine with corn ethanol,
there’ll be 63 Jews still with flus at the Wall.

63 Jews sniffing glues at the Wall.
63 Jews sniffing glues.
If one combines Elmer’s with parasite gall,
there’ll be 62 Jews sniffing glues at the Wall.

62 Jews spray paint hues on the Wall.
62 Jews spray paint hues.
If one covers all with a Gainsboro pall,
there’ll be 61 Jews spraying hues on the Wall.

61 Jews hail their muse at the Wall.
61 Jews hail their muse.
If one of those muses refuses the call,
there’ll be 60-some muses of Jews at the Wall.

60-some Jews construct pews at the Wall
60-some Jews construct pews.
If one of those Jews hollers, “Prie-dieux for all!”
there’ll be 59 Jews building pews at the Wall.

59 Juif cordon-bleus at the Wall.
59 Juif cordon-bleus.
If one introduces cuisine from Nepal,
there’ll be 58 Juif cordon-bleus at the Wall.

58 Jews mouthing ‘mu’s at the Wall.
58 Jews mouthing ‘mu’s.
If one mouths a ‘nu’ instead (what a miscall!),
there’ll be 50 plus 7 mouth'd ‘mu’s at the Wall.

50-plus-7 Jews coo towards the Wall.
50-pus-7 Jews coo.
If one of those Jews grabs a last curtain-call,
there’ll be 56 Jews cooing “ooh!”s at the Wall.

56 Jews courting Sues at the Wall.
56 Jews courting Sues.
If one of those Jews cries, “Suzanne: you’re too small!”
there’ll be 55 Jews courting Sues at the Wall.

55 Jews speaking Wu at the Wall.
55 Jews speaking Wu.
If one of them says, “This is not Montreal!”
there’ll be 54 Jews speaking Wu at the Wall.

54 Hebrews called Saul scale the Wall.
54 Hebrews called Saul.
If one of ‘em changes his name to RuPaul,
there’ll be 53 Hebrews called Saul on the Wall.

53 Jews roses strew near the Wall.
53 Jews roses strew.
If one of those Jews decides daisies enthrall,
there’ll be 52 Jews left to strew near the Wall.

52 Jews cry, “J’accuse!” at the Wall.
52 Jews cry, “J’accuse!”
If one gets the picture: “We're not in Bhopal,”
there’ll be 51 cries of “J’accuse!” at the Wall.

51 Jews sweeping flues near the Wall.
51 Jews sweeping flues.
If one plans a new Franklin stove to install,
there’ll be 50 sweeps – Jews -- cleaning flues near the Wall.

50 Jews sneezing "A-choo!"s at the Wall.
50 Jews sneezing "A-choo!"s.
If each of the 50 takes Nytol withal,
there'll be no Jews to sneeze at the Al-Buraq Wall. 

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