Passover begins Saturday night! For more on the holiday, see the Passover tag on hbook.com and the Holidays--Passover tag in the Guide/Reviews Database. And for a…slightly sillier look at Seders, matzah, and the afikomen, here’s a song commissioned for Parodies for Charities by friends of the Horn Book Sylvie Shaffer and Marjorie Ingall. With apologies and matzah ball soup to Chappell Roan.

To the tune of "HOT TO GO!"

verse
I can tell the tale of our food restriction,
why we choose the bread of the flat affliction.
Listen to the story. (The meal comes later.) 
All will be revealed at tonight’s long seder.
Baby, do you like no taste?
It’s made in regulation haste.
There’s like a hundred ninety-nine decrees
about what you can feed me, what you can feed me.

bridge/patter
G-O-T T-O G-O
There’s no time for rising dough
G-O-T T-O G-O
Pack your matzah flat to go

chorus/sung
N-O B-R-E-A-D
Leavening’s no go for me
N-O B-R-E-A-D
That’s how we can tell we’re free

verse
Keep your eyes awake, because did we mention?
There’s another reason to pay attention.
If the leader moves, that could be an omen:
it’s your chance to capture the afikomen.
But be prepared to share your treat
‘cause the seder won’t be complete 
till all the hungry come and eat
and you’re chewing it with me, chewing it with me.

chorus/sung
N-O T-A-S-T-E?
Don’t give that away for free.
Till you share, it cannot be
B-E-D T-I-M-E.