WAL-MART OY VEY!

Lyrics: Bennet Zurofsky, 2005

Tune: I Had a Little Dreydle

Key C

Wal-Mart moved into our shtetl;                           (shtetl: little village)

Bull-dozed our woods away.

Their traffic jams up all our streets.

We all shout, “Oy vey!”

Chorus:

Oy, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart,

Our communities you wreck!

Oy, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart,

All you sell is dreck!           (dreck: 1. excrement; 2. inferior merchandise)

They’re paying lousy wages;

Fire union folks all day;

Our Main Street is now boarded up.

We all shout, “Oy vey!”

Chorus

They’re schnorrers and goneyvim        (schnorrers: parasites; goneyvim: thieves)

With the angles that they play

With their lobbying and sweatshops.

We all shout, “Oy vey!”

Chorus

Its time to get together

And stand in Wal-Mart’s way.

Let’s drive them from our shtetl,

Make Sam Walton shout, “Oy vey!”

Final chorus (2X):

Oy, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart,

Your profits we will wreck!

Oy, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart,

We’ll flush out all your dreck!