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Chorus: Ain't gonna work on Saturday Ain't gonna work on Saturday Double, double, triple pay Won't make me work on Saturday Ain't gonna work on Saturday It's Shabbos Kodesh *******repeat chorus after each stanza******* I'm big Gedalia Goomber, I'm not exactly small, But really not so very big, just seventeen feet tall. I'm really rigged for working, for that I'm very fit, Six days a week I'm at it, and on the seventh day I quit. I once helped raise a building, and on the 100th floor, I was carrying a load of bricks, an easy ton or more. And here it's late on Friday, I knew I'd have to stop, So I yelled, "watch out below!", and let the whole thing drop. At driving a locomotive, I thought I'd take a crack, I had the throttle wide open, zooming down the track. And here it's almost Shabbos, the sun's about to set, So I dove into a mudhole, and the train is running yet. I worked down in a coal mine, and lost myself alright, I couldn't tell the days apart, because there was no light. So I set myself to digging, just as fast as you may please, And I popped up in an hour, where the people speak Chinese. I worked at Cape Kennedy, and things were going right, A great big rocket ship was set, on the launching site. And here it's getting dark, Shabbos was coming soon, So I pushed the starting button, and spent Shabbos on the moon. I turned to deep-sea diving, and took an awful chance, On a sunken steamer's deck, I got caught by my pants. And trapped beneath the ocean, I couldn't set me free, But I went home for Shabbos, and dragged the boat with me. i once was on a baseball team, Shomer Shabbos was its name, the score was zero zero, in this exciting game, then i was up to bat, and shabbos was coming soon, So i hit that ball so very hard, it landed on the moon. I dress my best on Shabbos, three meals I feast me fine, I make a royal Kiddush on a barrel full of wine. And when I sing my Zmiros, for a thousand miles they know, That I'm enjoying Shabbos, for Hashem has told us so.
Translated lyrics
Once to split the atom with effort I had learned Suddenly there was a blast! Boy did I get burned Everyone was worried but the doctors I did tell "That by keeping Shabbos Holy I would soon be fit and well!
Notes
I once was an explorer, to africa I went, when shabbos hungry lions, came zooming round my tent! My assistant grabbed my rifle, go goomber shoot those pests but instead I invited them to be my shabbos guests!
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