Jewish Cemetery

Jewish cemetery Minutes from me Feet from the heat of the neighbourhood bar The most ancient grave They say was laid In seventeen hundred and sixty two A century since We could be citizens, true Ben Israel did plead And Cromwell agreed The Commons conceded Permission to found A burial ground East End, London Town And for the first time in four hundred years Shiva could sit Kaddish was heard, word Then a Carvajal came Antonio his name A merchant by trade From Portugal's heart Who would've thought Tony became The first Jewish citizen of the UK Endenizened And at Mile End Stayed So dumbfound I stand Half pint in hand Cursing the Barmitzvah I never had If those stones were clean Their Hebrew would read You're in the arms of your family now Eli, they said Come lay your head down