Cozimjewish:
Here’s an e-mail exchange with Dena Cohen:
(By the way, if anyone wants to hear the part of the song in question, it’s in the preview on Eichler’s’ website.)
Me:
Over at the Yeshiva World News’ Coffee Room, we’re wondering what the lyrics are at the beginning of the second verse of “Avinu,” track 5 on “Pulling Strings” by the London Girls Choir.
They sound like “Exterminate / Our men in flu” but that doesn’t seem right 🙂
Perhaps you can enlighten us?
(Link: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/shwekey-lyrics-english/page/4#post-539598)
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Her:
Hello Random Person[note: the “name” on my anonymous e-mail account],
I based the lyrics on English translation of the first few Ovinu Malkeinus.
And nice to know my work is being discussed / appreciated…
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Attached was a Word document with the full lyrics to the song,
with the line in question highlighted (I’ve italicized it):
OVINU MALKEINU
by Dena Cohen
Time to step – back And to review
We have no king – No king but You
Our Father, our King
All harsh decrees – Accusers too
Please nullify – And please subdue
Our Father, our King
CHORUS
You give so much – You always give
Each single day – That we do live
And yet we sin – Stumble and fall
We deserve nothing – Nothing at all
But still we pray – We beg of You
Act towards us – To every Jew
With mercy and – With kindness too
Our Father, our King
The evilness – Our haters spew
The plots and schemes – That they persue
Our Father, our King
Exterminate – Famine and flu
Captivity – Destruction too
Withold the plague – From every Jew
Our Father, our King
CHORUS
Forgive our sins – That did accrue
Wipe them away – The records too
Repentently – Bring us to You
Our Father, our King
CHORUS