The Maccabeats - Hasmonean - A Hamilton Hanukkah

Music video for “Hasmonean,“ a parody of “Hamilton,“ originally by Lin-Manuel Miranda Video by Uri Westrich Uri@ A Maccabeats Hanukkah iTunes: Bandcamp: Amazon: This and all Maccabeats music is recorded a cappella. Bookings: booking@ Tour dates: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: ----------------------------------------­­­--------------------------------------­-­-­-- Lyrics by Spencer Garfield Additional lyrics by the Maccabeats Arranged by Julian Horowitz Recorded by Colin Egan, Alex Green, Doug Staiman, and Ami Kozak Edited by Alex Green for Plaid Productions Mixed by Ed Boyer Mastered by Dave Sperandio for Vocal Mastering Director of photography: Giovanni Ferlito Choreography: Reina Potaznik Body double: Yoni Lewis Security: Matt Schwartz, Yoni Bardash, Sky Krug Special thanks to Rabbi Dr. John Krug, The Frisch School, Bina Westrich, Naomi Westrich, Yaacov Davidowitz, Madison Fischman, and Zachary Fishman ----------------------------------------­­­--------------------------------------­-­-­-- How does a Hasmonean son of a priest And a Hebrew, raised in a village with his four brothers, In a Judean province ruled by pompous king Antiochus, Under pressure, grow up to be a hero and commander? When the king came around, we said “this decree’s insane, man We could not observe our laws while living in our own land! Fight back like your father, don’t forget from whence you came, And we’ll call you by a brand new name What’s your name, sir? Call him Judah Maccabee The hammer whose aim is true And we’re ready to show the king We don’t owe him a single thing The world will never be the same! You’ll be Greek Soon you’ll see You will pray to Zeus the same as me You’ll be Greek No need to fight Our Hellenism serves you right You won’t miss your Shabbat Or circumcision for your tots And if you don’t comply I will send my great Selucid army and you’ll tell history goodbye We are not gonna betray our God We are not gonna betray our God Hey yo, we don’t need permission To keep our great traditions And we’re not gonna betray our God We been here since Abraham and mom Sarah And now we’d never vow to bow to a statue of Hera Our teacher Moses passed down the book that is good It said we pray just to one God And not an effigy of stone or of wood Two thousand years and while the world’s still turnin’ Traditions givin’ us the teachin’ and learnin’ We keep (on) readin’ ‘n yearnin’ We want to keep the Sabbath and the days that are holy Can we uphold our Temple ceremony? We’re past patiently waitin’. we’re passionately Smashin the invasion Taking action on rededication! And though this story has its fair share of sorrow Today we’re gonna fight for tomorrow And we are not betray our God! Although we may not live forever We can be glad we won the fight When our descendants come together They’ll tell our story for eight nights Celebrate our freedom Something they can never take a way No matter what they tell you (Let’s have a festival of light) Celebrate our victory And how we changed history And tell the story of eight nights They’ll the story of the lights They’ll tell the story for eight nights