Jerusalem (Jerusalem Blues)

Jerusalem Blues is a modern Jewish lament - a cry to God from exile, wrapped in rhythm. Inspired by cantorial phrasing and Ashkenazi ornamentation, the song tells the story of a young man imprisoned far from Jerusalem, longing for a city he cannot see, even on the clearest of days.

Credits & rights

Free to sing, free to teach

These songs are free for synagogues, JCCs, museums, schools, yeshivas and families. For everyone else, free to start, and a modest fee later, so the songs travel and take root.

Questions, or a use we have not thought of? Write to doublesign28@gmail.com.

More about the wider Jewish Songs. For All project at havanagila.org.