Ms. Lopez & Mr. Anderson's Classes -- Lyric for "Zum Gali Gali"

Fifth Grade Magnet -- here is the lyric from our other song, "Zum Gali Gali." As with "Hitotsu Toya" I've given the teachers recordings and pronunciation tracks to help you practice. For our performance will sing the song as it appears here -- with two verses in Hebrew and one in English.

Zum gali gali gali
Zum gali gali
Zum gali gali gali
Zum gali gali

Hechalutz le ‘man avodah;
Avodah le ‘man hechalutz;
Avodah le ‘man hechalutz;
Hechalutz le ‘man avodah.

Zum gali gali gali
Zum gali gali
Zum gali gali gali
Zum gali gali

Hechalutz le ‘man ha’ b’tu lah
Ha’ b’tu lah le man hechalutz
Ha’ a mim le ‘man ha’ shalom;
Ha’ shalom le ‘man ha’ a mim.

Zum gali gali gali
Zum gali gali
Zum gali gali gali
Zum gali gali

We are building, building a land;
Out of rock and desert and sand;
Men and women labor in pride;
We are working side by side.

Although we have been working with the lyrics on poster paper in class, I would rather not have cue cards for our performance. In other words you need to memorize the song. The Hebrew words are not hard, however, as they repeat quite a bit.

We will discuss all this in class on Thursday.