Written and performed by Stephen Conn, 2003.
A Rap Epic of doomed Kosher love.
Produced by Chas Wright and Dutch Mondrago.
Lyrics:
"Word up, y'all, it's Mistah Conn/
I's about to go cruise the local prom/
But before I do it won't take long/
Got a tale to tell call Leah's song/
A Jewish girl, about 5'10" tall/
You might spot her at the Willowbrook Mall/
She's gone off now to find her man/
While I've been left with my love in my hand/
All I know is I ain't been the same/
Since she took the path train back to Wayne/
She walked out when I insulted her mom/
I'll try to set it straight in Leah's Song/
I first met her at a school for Liberal Arts/
Where most of the grads work at Quickie Marts/
Found her years later, looking like Madonna/
During the drama of the summer of Osama/
A vegan socialist she had a hard-on for Che/
Though if he took her to dinner, I wonder who'd pay/
I remember the time she went with a Rasta/
And tried to make him join the local Hadassah/
At Hebrew school she didn't take no shit/
She'd say "Silly Rabbi, tricks are for kids!"/
But now she's grown, you won't need a big car/
For her to go down and blow ya Shofar/
And while we're at it, let's talk about Alice/
Who gets her kicks being tied with a Tallis/
C'mon now, that's just wrong/
let's bring it back to Leah's song.
We never did get down to having much sex/
She said I had too much of a martyr complex/
She wanted me to change, but that's all through/
She knew I was a Jew with the IQ of Magoo/
I said, "Face it, darlin', we'll never be rich/
You're not exactly looking at Merril Lynch."/
She speaks seven languages, a Capricorn/
While my big goal was getting off porn/
While she was off helping the poor in Peru/
I discovered God while sniffing glue/
Yes, I know the sun will come out Gemara/
But I'm too tired to pick up a Torah/
I'm a Cancer, a bad salsa dancer, I have bad luck but what can I say/
It's not like I like getting rolled on the A/
But maybe some day I'll be the baggage-handler/
for the press agent to Adam Sandler/
And though my hopes were kind of setting/
On our own Big Fat Ass Greek Wedding/
Theodorus'd ignore us if we went too long/
Sing out muse, it's Leah's Song/
"Kalimara-Kalispara" [Greek: Good evening,
Good Night]
"She bought me Flaubert but she didn't care!"
A Moveable Feast for your Sexy Beast."
Now you can understand why I said "Oy!"/
When she gave the eye to every Puerto Rican
busboy/
She's seen too many faces, been too many places/
Get some nookie south of the border/
Come back to Jersey, may I take your order/
and though I know there're many fish in the sea/
I'm still here on my bended knee/
The Chabad's got her bod, but somebody mop me/
I still recall her "Ei, su Popi!"/
And as I go through every page of every book/
I still have visions of that Shakira-like tuch/
Her sister Audrey wrote on "Uncle Tom"/
She deserves a little spot in Leah's song/
[Martin Luther King's "I have a dream"]
I begged her, "Babe, let's go back to the house/
We'll dim all the lights and read some Klaus/
Get kinky with Kinski in 20V/
I guess in the end she didn't need me/
Oh I feel so bad I can't get out of bed/
She has a voice so husky it could pull a dog sled/
Come back home, my little Mika-Moka/
We'll dine on ciggies and a diet Coca-Cola/
Get a little fern for the window-sill/
Buy a little schnauzer and name it "Paxil"/
Please come back, c'mon where ya goin'/
I want to show you this new pot plant I'm growin'/
So I guess you're saying, there's no hope/
for me to touch your little Park Slope/
Somebody saw her at Webster with Kong/
Try to fit him in to Leah's Song/
Screaming on the phone while living at the Y/
No wonder she moved in with a different guy/
I asked, "Maybe sometime I can see your perineum?"/
She said, "Sure ya can, just not this millenium."/
And now good lord I've been arrested for stalkin'/
And the guy touching me looks like Christopher Walken/
Think I'll go home and live with my mom/
and try to make some money off Leah's Song.
["Dulce est decorum est"]
Sample: "Get it on and have a party"
by Pattie Brooks
Courtesy Backstreet Records
From the movie "Doctor Detroit" starring Dan Aykroyd
Leah's Song