# Line in South Park Christmas Song \[Hebrew?\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136 "2012-11-15T22:15:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/1 "2012-11-15T22:15:09Z")
What is Kyle saying at 1:03 in [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4s5MMLN_NY)? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/2 "2012-11-15T22:17:17Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/A-ZRLtD1i1w/hqdefault.jpg "Kyle - Jew on Christmas with lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZRLtD1i1w) That song + lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/3 "2012-11-15T22:19:54Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZRLtD1i1w](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ZRLtD1i1w) > > That song + lyrics. I want to know what [sounds like]hooh hach tol gaveesh[/sounds like] means. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/4 "2012-11-15T22:27:36Z")
I totally expected this to be an amusing Mondegreene. Instead, I just don’t speak either Yiddish or Hebrew. And, apparently, can’t tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/5 "2012-11-16T00:32:19Z")
Moved to Cafe Society. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/6 "2012-11-16T01:40:27Z")
I don’t know but I always assumed he was just singing gibberish sounds meant to sound like Yiddish or Hebrew ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/7 "2012-11-16T17:29:00Z")
[This site](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/A-Lonely-Jew-On-Christmas-lyrics-South-Park/EFA5947071AC126748257446000CB742) has it as “hu, hach, do hachvi.” Not that that helps. It could be real Hebrew, but I only know a couple words here and there, so I can’t translate it. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/8 "2012-11-24T19:13:03Z")
Bump ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/9 "2012-11-24T20:16:47Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > Bump _Doooooooooode!_ you don’t bump a Thread requesting a Hebrew translation on a _Saturday_! I hereby request that the entire SDMB community give **HeyHomie** an etiquette pass to double-bump his own OP. **HeyHomie** , I recommend bumping this Thread tomorrow or Monday. (Though you originally posted in on a Thurday, but I don’t think “Christmas” in a Thread title attracts many Hebrew scholars) ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/10 "2012-11-25T15:49:50Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > _Doooooooooode!_ you don’t bump a Thread requesting a Hebrew translation on a _Saturday_! I know. I thought of that as soon as I hit “Post.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/11 "2012-11-25T17:32:47Z")
Well, it’s Sunday now. Step up, Jopers! (Joper = Jewish Doper) ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/12 "2012-11-25T17:47:30Z")
The most common spelling I see in lyric sites is “hou hazch tou gavish.” But I don’t speak Hebrew or even pseudo-Hebrew. Heck, I barely speak English. Zev Steinhardt, where are you? ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/13 "2012-11-25T19:16:48Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Zev Steinhardt, where are you? I PM’d him (her?) last week. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/14 "2012-11-25T19:18:45Z")
> [@HeyHomie](#): > > I PM’d him (her?) last week. One more time, with feeling. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/15 "2012-11-25T19:28:02Z")
The lyrics may have alienated the Jews: Anything related to Christianity is consistently capitalized; “jew” is consistently not. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/16 "2012-11-25T19:50:30Z")
It’s not any Hebrew words I recognize, and it’s not the title of any Hanukkah song I’ve ever heard of. I’m guessing that Matt and Trey just made up a bunch of Hebrew-sounding gibberish syllables. “Hoo” means “he” in Hebrew, but the rest of it makes no sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/17 "2012-11-25T19:53:33Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > It’s not any Hebrew words I recognize, and it’s not the title of any Hanukkah song I’ve ever heard of. I’m guessing that Matt and Trey just made up a bunch of Hebrew-sounding gibberish syllables. > > “Hoo” means “he” in Hebrew, but the rest of it makes no sense to me. That might explain why Google couldn’t translate it. Indeed, Google said it was most likely English. I’m disappointed in South Park. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Yehuda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Yehuda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yehuda)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/18 "2014-12-15T06:30:17Z")
I think he might be saying (or trying to say) “hu chag tov” which are some lyrics in the Chanukah song “sivivon (sov sov sov)” as for gavish that’s a name idk what it has to do with anything. But hu chag tov basically means “(its a) good holiday”. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/19 "2014-12-15T07:51:36Z")
I don’t think Google translate is going to be much help with transliterated Hebrew. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/line-in-south-park-christmas-song-hebrew/641136/20 "2014-12-15T09:08:01Z")
The song is “The Lonely Jew on Christmas” from the episode “Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo” and also on the album “Mr. Hankey’s Christmas Classics” which has other songs mostly from the episode of the same name. The Wiki puts it as Huhash Dogavish or do gavish. Google Translate does do transliteration. Whether that is accurate with the vowels (it suggests הוחש ו גביש), I cannot say. It translates to “Rushed and crystal”?