THE COLORS OF JERUSALEM"

words & music © Fran Avni

We're all children of Creation

Sons and daughters of woman and man

Though we've wandered far from Eden

We must do the best we can

To preserve the wonders of nature

And the promises of old -

And the covenant of our ancestors in 

David's City of Gold.

And  the colors of Jerusalem are won'rous to behold

each day at sunrise and sunset

All its hills are filled with (crimson) and gold

And everyone can be a poet or painter

Adding their own special hue

To three thousand years of hopes and dreams

That color its mighty view.

Three housand years of hopes and dreams

That color its mighty view.

Hebrew verses.

AM ECHAD is a song about the ingathering - and lyrics that describe journeys and hardship and celebrate growing 'like a cactus in the wilderness - bearing unexpected fruit,

Jerusalem 

CHANT: AM ECHAD

LEV ECHAD

Chorus:

AM EXCHAD (trans. one people_V-LEV ECHAD (one heart) CHALOM ECHAD (one dream) 

B-TIKVA (with or in hope) L-SHALOM (for peace)  B'OLAM ECHAD (in one world)

They left the maple and the pine

For the palm tree and the vine

The cider for the vine

And they came from many lands

Worked hard with their hands

Building a homeland - for all time.

O Nation - (echo) of people (echo)

Who grow like a cactus in the wilderness,

Bearing unexpected fruit.

CHO:

And from the frozen forest lands

To hills of stone and dunes of sand

They reached the Promised land

O ancient heartbeat within walls

Sacred symbol for us all

For all - Jerusalem.

O City (echo) - of nations (echo)

You grow like a cactus in the wolderness

You bear unexpected fruit.

CHO: