Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica

by Thomas Andrew Lehrer

(I'm Spending)
HANUKKAH IN SANTA MONICA

words and music by Tom Lehrer

I'm spending Hanukkah
In Santa Monica.
Wearing sandals,
Lighting candles
By the sea.
I spent Shevuos
In East St. Louis,
A charming spot
But clearly not
The spot for me.
Those Eastern winters,
I can't endure 'em,
So ev'ry year
I pack my gear
And come out here
Till Purim.
Rosh Hashonah
I spend in Arizonah,
And Yom Kippuh [Southern accent]
Way down in Mississippuh,
But in December there's just one place for me.

Amid the California flora
I'll be lighting my menorah,
Like a baby in his cradle
I'll be playing with my dreidel,
Here's to Judas Maccabeus,
Boy, if he could only see us,
Spending Hanukkah
In Santa Monica
By the sea.