שיר השיירה – The Caravan Song

Countless languages we spoke
And one another we hardly knew
And many, many places we left
And only one place did we want and love
And many, many places we left
And to the land, to the land we came.

And the caravan goes on
From the century past
Far away are those who left
Farmers and pioneers
Who toiled, worked so hard
Without seeing the end of the road
And now we pass
We neither kept quiet nor rested
They won’t keep going without us
This is the adventure of our lives.

From ghettos and camps we emerged
To the swamps and desolation we went
From the ends of Arabia, Russia and Poland
We set light in Dimona and Degania

And from all the exiles
And with all the problems
A nation formed and a land arose
And a language that slept
Again started to awaken
And speaks and speaks
All around the storm rages
Great is the hardship and the pain
But there is of what to rejoice
There’s still courage, there’s still energy.

How Israel grows around us
She is stronger than all our weaknesses
And the Negev too will blossom yet
We’ll yet make sure the Elder is happy.
And the Negev too will blossom yet
We’ll yet make sure the Elder is happy.

And from all the exiles
And with all the problems
All around the storm rages
Great is the hardship and the pain
But there is of what to rejoice
There’s still courage, there’s still energy.
And the caravan goes on
From the century past
Far away are those who left
Farmers and pioneers
Who toiled, worked so hard
Without seeing the end of the road
And now we pass
We neither kept quiet nor rested
They won’t keep going without us
This is the adventure of our lives.