Had Gadya - Chava Alberstein (English Lyrics)

Had Gadya (“one little goat, or “one kid“) is a song from the Haggadah book read at the Jewish holiday of Passover. Had Gadya is written in Aramaic. Chava Alberstein has used the traditional text (mostly translated into Hebrew) and added a new part. While the original song ends with God empowering the Angel of Death, here God is absent. The folk song is now used to symbolize an endless cycle of violence, to which Alberstein’s new text refers. Had Gadya was released in 1989 during the first Intifada. Th