Uploaded October 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
When I was at summer camp in 1979, we did this musical in Hebrew. The album is one of the very few Broadway musicals that never made it to CD, but I have the record, and I ripped it to mp3 for my own use. There's a short dialogue before the song starts. The musical came out after the Six Day War, and the song refers to it. But it hasn't aged. Unfortunately.
Lyrics:
We're so ashamed
We really didn't mean to
Who'd think that such a thing was in the cards
Our blindfolds ready
Our throats were washed and clean you
Had nothing else to do but bring the swords
But when somebody was sharpening the knives
And everyone else was very, very still
We grew so scared we jumped up straight and closed our eyes
And *bang*, we just lashed out against our will
We're sorry we won it
We must have overdone it
We know quite well that a Jew has his place
A Jew who is a winner is a disgrace
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
Well, now it's done
And we made some people angry
It's true that's not so very neighborly
But with all the screaming
Those terrible harangues we
Heard rumors we'd get pushed into the sea
In history the Jew is not a winner
We knew this at the Mediterranean
But faced with all that water there to drink for dinner
We lost our guts as we were stepping in
We're sorry we won it
We must have overdone it
We know quite well that a Jew has his place
A Jew who is a winner is a disgrace
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
Well now we've learned
And we promise you quite truly
A promise we know you would not misuse
If faced with battle
From king or prince or coolie
We promise we'll do everything to lose
And once again the world can shed its tears
And cry and pray we make it out somehow
You've been just wonderful to us through all the years
We wouldn't want to spoil your pleasure now
We're sorry we won it
We must have overdone it
We know quite well that a Jew has his place
A Jew who is a winner is a disgrace
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
When I was at summer camp in 1979, we did this musical in Hebrew. The album is one of the very few Broadway musicals that never made it to CD, but I have the record, and I ripped it to mp3 for my own use. There's a short dialogue before the song starts. The musical came out after the Six Day War, and the song refers to it. But it hasn't aged. Unfortunately.
Lyrics:
We're so ashamed
We really didn't mean to
Who'd think that such a thing was in the cards
Our blindfolds ready
Our throats were washed and clean you
Had nothing else to do but bring the swords
But when somebody was sharpening the knives
And everyone else was very, very still
We grew so scared we jumped up straight and closed our eyes
And *bang*, we just lashed out against our will
We're sorry we won it
We must have overdone it
We know quite well that a Jew has his place
A Jew who is a winner is a disgrace
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
Well, now it's done
And we made some people angry
It's true that's not so very neighborly
But with all the screaming
Those terrible harangues we
Heard rumors we'd get pushed into the sea
In history the Jew is not a winner
We knew this at the Mediterranean
But faced with all that water there to drink for dinner
We lost our guts as we were stepping in
We're sorry we won it
We must have overdone it
We know quite well that a Jew has his place
A Jew who is a winner is a disgrace
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
Well now we've learned
And we promise you quite truly
A promise we know you would not misuse
If faced with battle
From king or prince or coolie
We promise we'll do everything to lose
And once again the world can shed its tears
And cry and pray we make it out somehow
You've been just wonderful to us through all the years
We wouldn't want to spoil your pleasure now
We're sorry we won it
We must have overdone it
We know quite well that a Jew has his place
A Jew who is a winner is a disgrace
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
Oh please world
Excuse us
We're asking you for forgiveness
We're awfully sorry
We're sorry we won the war
