Forty Nine Days to Count the Omer
Parody of 50 Ways – Paul Simon

On Passover, the second night it starts he said to me,
The Omer is counted for seven weeks you see.
Between Pesach and Shavuot you know mathematically,
There must be forty nine days to count the Omer.

He said the reason for this habitual device,
The sixteenth day of Nisan was the Omer sacrifice.
After this we just take the Torah’s good advice,
There must be forty nine days to count the omer.
Forty nine days to count the omer.

Chorus: After it’s dark, Mark, At the end of Maariv, Steve,
Do it in shul, Shmuel, just count with me.
Look for the stars Tamar, just be sure to make the bracha,
Erev is the key Zvi, count sefirah with me.

Rav Akiva’s students starting dying one by one,
‘Cause having no respect
can even hurt the talmid chacham.
So ‘till day thirty three, no haircuts can be done,
In the forty nine days of the omer.

If on an evening you forgot to count, well do not fret,
Say it the next morning without a blessing and your set.
But forgetting the next day and
counting next year’s all you get,
In the forty nine days of the omer.
Forty nine days of the omer. …Chorus…