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[00:22.64]I stepped off the bus in Mobil, Alabama
[00:28.08]The sun was slowly setting on the ba-a-ay
[00:32.56]It was six o clock on a summer friday afternoon
[00:37.93]Shabbos was an hour away
[00:43.33]I walked around the town wondering what to do
[00:47.98]Cause shabbos is no time to be feeling blue
[00:53.35]And then I saw a man who looked the same way too
[00:58.75]I was quite relieved to find a fellow jew
[01:04.17]I asked the man I saw how many Jews in this town
[01:08.62]He said to me there used to be a minyan around
[01:14.02]But one of us passed away and we've been feeling down
[01:19.51]Yet now it seems as though another jew has been found
[01:24.04]Oh wont you stay with us for shabbos Minyan Man
[01:55.36]We walked down Winston Avenue a block then two more
[02:00.72]And went into a shop that read closed on the door
[02:05.22]There was a minyan at the back of a hardware store
[02:10.64]Nine men waiting for one more
[02:16.11]We ushered in the shabbos with a beautiful song
[02:21.57]The chazzan had a voice that was clear and strong
[02:26.02]We sang out as one all shabbos long
[02:31.43]then maariv came again, I had to be moving on
[02:38.64]I asked the man I saw how many Jews in this town
[02:44.18]He said to me there used to be a minyan around
[02:48.65]But one of us passed away and we've been feeling down
[02:54.09]Yet now it seems as though another jew has been found
[02:58.54]Oh wont you stay with us for shabbos Minyan Man
[03:30.19]Now that was twenty years agobut the vision is clear
[03:34.67]And I think about it now and then cause the place is still dear
[03:40.18]And when I make this trip through Mobil once every year
[03:45.58]I remember the men who prayed here
[03:50.90]Now the minyan is gone
[03:52.73]A few died, some moved on
[03:55.47]But the back of the store still remembers the song
[04:00.86]The nine men who waited till one came along
[04:05.36]how shabbos was carried on a song
[04:15.31]I asked the man I saw how many Jews in this town
[04:20.64]He said to me there used to be a minyan around
[04:26.02]But one of us passed away and we've been feeling down
[04:30.57]Yet now it seems as though another jew has been found
[04:35.01]Oh wont you stay with us for shabbos Minyan Man
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