1. MY MOUTAIN VIEW CLEAR LIKE WATER
TREES FRAGRANCE INSPIRED.
NIGHT WIND CARRY-TO-me
SMALL BELL TINKLE, NOISE-DRIFT.
TREES AND MOUNTAINS SLEEP SOFT.
DREAM WORLD NOW COMES-INTO-BEING.
OUR CITY SEEM ALONE PLACED@ctr.
INSIDE-SELF ITS-rt HEART HAVE WALL.

Refrain: YERUSHALAYIM BUILD USE GOLD,
USE METAL AND LIGHT. ME IDEA-LIKE HARP,
REALLY-WANT SING, PRAISE YOU-rt.

2. OUR WELLS AGAIN FILLED-UP WATER.
CITY PEOPLE REJOICE.
FROM TEMPLE MOUNTAIN INSIDE CITY
SHOFAR BLAST LOUD SPREAD.
INSIDE MOUNTAIN HAVE CAVE'long'
GLOW LIKE ONE-THOUSAND SUN.
COME-ON TRAVEL YAM HAMELACH
WITH ME FOLLOW JORDAN RIVER. Refrain

3. BUT WHILE ME SING, MY CITY
YOUR BEAUTY CROWN WITH WORDS.
ME NOTHING-TO-IT COMPARE YOUR CHILDREN.
MANY POETS PRAISE YOU-rt.
IF ME FORGET YOU CITY GOLD
PUNISH MY LIPS THROUGH FIRE.
LIKE KISS ANGEL body-BURN.
NO, ME CHERISH YOU WILL. Refrain

Notes: There are many verses and versions of this song.

CLEAR LIKE WATER - The Hebrew is "zalul k'yayin - as comforting as wine", but I choose to be a bit free with my translation and more visual.

FRAGRANCE - [5], PO down, FO > NDS, starts at NDS of body just under nose and moves > DS with wg while closing to [O^].

ME - Underlined words are honorific indices ("indexes"), using the FT of the upturned palm to indicate who is being honored.

SURROUNDINGS - [5], PO down, FO away, circles above NDH [1], PO > DS, FO up.

TINKLE - [5^], PO down, is shaken like a small bell. This is in reference to the small bells that the Kohen Gadol (High Priest) wore on his vestments.

NOISE-DRIFT - (2h)[S] open to (2h)[5] and move with wg towards signer.

COMES-INTO-BEING - (2h)[5:], POs down, interlock fingers and move knuckles up so that POs face each other.

PLACED@rt - [5:], PO away, FO up, twists and descends to PO down, FO away.

INSIDE-SELF - The FT of [C] are held against the chest and stuff the FT of [O^] into the [C] twice.

YERUSHALAYIM - The Israeli sign for "Jerusalem" is [B with thumbs flush with other fingers but not folded into palm], touches mouth and then pronates so that PO is away.

IDEA-LIKE - A blending where IDEA has a [Y] instead of an [I] in anticipation of LIKE which is signed smoothly right afterwards.

HARP - The Hebrew is "kinor" which was the harp that King David used. You will see this translated as "lute" or "violin" in some versions.

REALLY-WANT - WANT but shaken back and forth to show intensity.

WELLS - (2h)[C], POs ><, FOs away, rise from below to show the shape of a well.

FILLED-UP - [B], PO down, FO > NDS, is held close to body, starts rising from below waist and strikes chin in its rising.

REJOICE - CELEBRATE.

TEMPLE - [T], PO down, FO away, taps dorsal [back] side of [S], PO down, FO > DS.

SHOFAR - (2h)[S] is held close to the lips as if blowing a shofar (ram's horn). The DH, which is further from the mouth, moves away and up, changing to a [5:] in imitation of the shofar's shape.

BLAST - NDH [S] is held at the lips and DH [C], PO away, FO up, is held like the end of a ram's horn. Both hands vibrate.

CAVE'long' - (2h)[C], POs ><, FOs up, travel away in a wavy line to show a cave passage.

GLOW - (2h)[5^], POs away, FOs up, open and close as if glowing.

COME-ON - (2h)[B^] move in circles pivoting at the wrists to beckon someone to do something.

YAM HAMELACH - The "Sea of Salt" which we call in English the "Dead Sea". The Israeli sign for this is SWIM + [F], PO down, FO away, rubs index finger against thumb as if sprinkling salt (hand stays in place).

JORDAN - The song mentions "Jerico", but I don't know the Israeli sign for that, so I choose the Israeli sign for "Jordan" which does empty into the Dead Sea.

CROWN - (2h)[L:] (like BIG) moves crown from head to netural space.

NOTHING-TO-IT - (2h)[F], POs away, FOs up, hands move slightly and symetrically from side to side.

POETS - [O^], FO down is held against chest and moves up and away similar to the sign EXPRESS + AGENT.

body-BURN - In reference to the seraphim (the burning ones), (2h)[5] travel up chest with wg.

CHERISH - (2h)[5:], hold FTs by the sides of the chin and move down while maintaining contact and closing to (2h)[S].

Lyrics:

1. The mountain air is clear as wine
The scent of pines around
Is carried on the breeze of twilight,
And tinkling bells resound.
The trees and stones there softly slumber,
A dream enfolds them all.
So solitary lies the city,
And at its heart -- a wall.

Refrain: Oh, Jerusalem of gold,
and of light and of bronze,
I am the lute for all your songs.

2. The wells are filled again with water,
The square with joyous crowd,
On the Temple Mount within the City,
The shofar rings out loud.
Within the caverns in the mountains
A thousand suns will glow,
We'll take the Dead Sea road together,
That runs through Jericho. Refrain

3. But as I sing to you, my city,
And you with crowns adorn,
I am the least of all your children,
Of all the poets born.
Your name will scorch my lips for ever,
Like a seraph's kiss, I'm told,
If I forget thee, golden city,
Jerusalem of gold. Refrain

To see me perform this song, go to Yerushalyim shel Zahav.