There are many Uptown Funk parodies. A website called GeekDad even listed 10 of them.
But what didn't get notice (and should!) is a Passover-themed Bruno Mars parody released by the Jerusalem-based Aish.com site, that begins, "Pesach, Four cups cold, Holy Moses, Egyptian gold."
Passover begins Friday at sundown.
Since the real Uptown Funk was such a hit, Aish.com's Rabbi Nechemia Coopersmith and his colleagues decided to play off the song, Passover-style. "It's a fun, lively way to retell the story of Passover," Coopersmith said in an email from Israel.
The nearly three-minute video features Israeli men (yes, all men) in yarmulkes, eating a ritual meal at the Passover seder, having some fun with the 10 plagues that befell Egypt and a bunch of break dancing by the groups called the Lions of Zion Crew and Street Art Production, led by Dvir Rozen.[[376725641, C]]
Many of the dancers wear gold chains and sunglasses in addition to the traditional, ritual tzitzit, specially knotted fringes worn by observant Jews. dangling from underneath their shirts. Coopersmith said that while the dancers in Tel Aviv are all Jewish, they're not all Orthodox. "We just dressed them up," he said, noting that he does actually know Orthodox Jews who do know how to break dance.
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Aish.com, which launched in 2000, calls itself the "leading Jewish content website," logging over one million monthly user sessions. Make sure to check out Aish.com's newest Passover video, The Adele/Bieber Passover Mashup.
To read all the lyrics of the song:
Pesach
Four cups cold
Holy Moses
Egyptian gold
This one, for family
The hagada
Straight masterpiece
Matzah, marror
Eatin’ it up at the Seder
Got Kittel on with Saint Laurent
Save the Afikoman for later
Now comes blood, all red!
Called for Moses
He’s a Magician
Frogs, lice, on head!
Wild beasts and hail I said
It’s so dark, where's Fred!
Let us go, Pharaoh got no cred
Firstborn, he's dead!
Say Hebrews, let’s start running.
Break it down
Jews wrote the hallelujah
Jews wrote the hallelujah
Jews wrote the hallelujah
‘Cause Pesach Funk gon’ give it to you
‘Cause Pesach Funk gon’ give it to you
‘Cause Pesach Funk gon’ give it to you
Passover night and we are living it up
Fill it up the Four cups
Matzah crumblin’ up
Chametz burned it all up
Afikoman's wrapped up
Don't be slaves, just rise up
Pesach funk is what's up
Hey, hey, hey, oi!
Stop
Wait a minute
Fill my cup with the Maneschewitz
Take a sip, lean your chest
Yankele! Get the stretch!
Say four questions, the four sons, four cups, not too many
and we thank God for freedom
headin’ to our land of milk n’ honey
Freedom! Oh man
Gonna live my life the best way I can
Freedom! We can
Make the Jew in you to a hero man
Freedom! I am…
Say goodbye to those shackles and
Freedom! Hot sand!
More matzah in your tummy
Break it down
Jews wrote the hallelujah
Jews wrote the hallelujah
Jews wrote the hallelujah
‘Cause Pesach Funk gon’ give it to you
‘Cause Pesach Funk gon’ give it to you
‘Cause Pesach Funk gon’ give it to you
Passover night and we are living it up
Fill it up the Four cups
