Zum Gali Gali

Zum Gali Gali (Hebrew: זום גלי גלי) is an Israeli folk song associated with the Kibbutz, Israel's collective agricultural communities.

[1] The repeated refrain itself is a nonsensical verse,[2] and has no direct translation into English.

The first publication of the song was in 1939 by the Hebrew Publishing Company (NY, USA), indicating it was popular among American Jews at the time.

The song was first performed in a non-Jewish context by the German instrumentalist Bert Kaempfert.

[4] Zum Gali Gali is commonly used today in music education in both Jewish and non-Jewish settings on account of the song's rhythmic style, minor tonality,[5][6] multicultural and diverse origin.