Sheket Sheket (Cheket) (Hanukkah)

Song for Hanukkah, sung during the lighting of the candles.

 Form: a b c c' d d' 

Translation:

Quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet (hush) The menorah is lit (burning) And, in a room without a clock The dradle is spinning.  la-la-la etc…

 

source: 
Naomi Wagner
Appropriate Age: 
PreK-7
8-10
11 and up
Scale: 
Harmonic Minor
Rhythmic Element: 
Eighth and 2 sixteenths
2 sixteenths and Eighth
dotted eighth, sixteenth
Meter: 
2/4
Song Type: 
Religious (hymn, spiritual, etc)