Once Upon A Time - The Yishuv Song Parade by Dan Ben-Amotz and Haim Hefer
Ofra Haza, Shoshana Damari, Yaffe Yarkoni, Natan Dettner, Avi Kushnir and many more on Independence Day, 1988.
Original broadcast date: 21/04/1988
Director: Hagi Mounter
Producers: Hanoch Hasson and Haim Sela
Conductor: Yitzhak (Zico) Graziani
Facilitators: Moshe Becker, Avi Kushnir, Natan Dettner, Shari Zuriel and Efi Ben-Israel
Participants: Izzy Bornstein, Rivka Zohar, Yizhar Cohen, The IDF Orchestra, The Mandolin Band of the Jordan Valley, The Aviv Choir of the Tel Aviv Municipality, Ofra Haza, Hana Laslau, Shoshana Damari, Michal Tal
Ha'Tender Nosseah (The Wagon Is Rolling)
Originally sung by Shoshana Damari (also sung by Esther Gamlielit)
Lyrics: Jacob Orland
Composer: Moshe Vilansky
Lyrics (English translation):
The road is so long, long and wide
From Nahal Ein Harod far to the Moon
Night has already fallen on the kibbutz
Only starlight shines hintingly outside
Black night has already fallen on the Sea of Galilee
Please take me with you, my brother, I say
Please take me with you guys
Let me pray with you beyond the mountains
And they say to me: „Because you are so beautiful”
„Because for you we will travel to Sodom and also to Acre”
„Because for you we will all go, go, go”
„Even to a place that is not yet in the world”
The wagon is rolling, the wagon here is running
From the shores of the Dead Sea to the Eye of the Gulf
Tonight is a dark night
The wagon, what is night from night?
The wagon opened its mouth in song
Our hearts are wide and young
Even if there is fire in front of us, even if there is fire behind
The wagon won't stop
One promised me a wedding like no other
One promised me a palace on Mount Gilboa
One told me „I love you very much, Rachel”
„My heart to you is like a rolling wagon”
Someone who snorted told me „I only have pita”
„But I love you from Gaza to the end”
And only one guy was silent among them all
And I have never seen his face before
And he stood there, carrying a bow and arrows
And they are the only ones I would ask for
And he was silent with me, like a shadow between the mountains
And he was the most beautiful of all the boys
The wagon is rolling, the wagon here is running
From the shores of the Dead Sea to the Eye of the Gulf
Tonight is a dark night
The wagon, what is night from night?
The wagon opened its mouth in song
Our hearts are wide and young
Even if there is fire in front of us, even if there is fire behind
The wagon won't stop
