I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

In honor of the last day of Chanukah (*snif*!), I am posting something I meant to put up last year, which is the highly enjoyable set of extra bonus lyrics to the Dreidel Song written some years ago by MIT's Techiya, then including my esteemed ex-spouse.

Their version starts off with the well-known first verse and chorus ("OHHHH, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel..."), and then goes on:

I have a little dreidel,
I made it out of plastic;
With latkes, gelt, and presents,
This holiday's fantastic. OHHHH...

I hate my little dreidel,
It never lets me win;
No matter how I spin it,
It always comes down shin. OHHHH...

I lost my little dreidel
'Cause of Heisenberg's limitation:
I know its speed precisely --
No idea of its location. OHHHH...

Oh, Christmas decorations
For us are quite extraneous,
For Christmas isn't Chanukah,
Although they're simultaneous. OHHHH...

Oh, Judas Maccabeus,
He fought against the Greeks;
A drop of oil lasted
For 1.14285714285714285714285714285-- *slap*
... weeks. OHHHH...

Note: This recording appears on their first CD, Half-Life (2002; scroll down to bottom). If you click on the link, you'll also see that they have a new album, Techiya Sunrise (2010), which I picked up at their concert this past Sunday night. ( mini-review hereinafter )

Oh, and, note to self: In "Die Moorsoldaten," the English chorus does not in fact go "We are the beatbox soldiers." kthx.