Where are you heading?
Where go you forth?
Summertime
You’re heading north!
But where? I ask
You really know?
Where’s the place
That Yidden go?
What you call it
Do you care?
But I would like to know
Just where?
Where will you
Invigorate?
In the “COUNTRY”
Or “UPSTATE”?
What’s the difference?
You may ask
I’ve known those
Taken to task
For mixing up the
Lexicon
And treated like
They are far gone
“COUNTRY” is a place
That’s heimish
“UPSTATE” is a place
That’s Amish
“UPSTATE” you can
Milk a cow
In the “COUNTRY”
Zug mir how
“UPSTATE’s” off the 17
“COUNTRY’s” somewhere
“In-between”
Liberty and Monticello
UPSTATE homes
Are painted yellow
“UPSTATE” bars will serve
A beer
“COUNTRY’s” shuls you’ll find
A shiur
“UPSTATE’s” where
The fancy go
“COUNTRY’s” to
The bungalow
“How much longer
Must we go?
“We have not even
Passed Monroe!”
That I’m sure
You’ll only hear
From “COUNTRY” goers
Driving there
Nikolsburg
Is not “UPSTATE”
You can’t get
A minyan late
Now in the “COUNTRY”
That is when
Shacharis
Can start past ten!
Sean’s “UPSTATE”
In Kiamesha
“COUNTRY’s” Woodbourne
Cholent with Zisha
Call it “Cuhntrrry”
If you’re Yiddish
Hearing “UPSTATE”
Makes them skittish
Geographically
Not a part
But one has grass
The other heart
