Malki’s Song

The story of Malki’s Song

“We each have hope and a future, and a place in the world to come”

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In the last year of her life, Malki – a gifted musician – wrote the words and music of a song. She hoped to enter it in a school musical competition. Though she completed the song and taught it to her friends, she did not manage to submit it in time for the competition. Like most girls of fifteen, she thought she had all the time in the world.

Her family became aware of the song’s existence for the first time when visitors mentioned it in their home during the week of “shiva”, mourning Malki’s death. In a spontaneous expression of sympathy and sadness, Malki’s friends had fanned out across Israel during that mourning week in the summer holidays of August 2001. During that week, they taught Malki’s song to hundreds of children and teenagers attending the Ezra youth group summer camp and in other summer youth camps throughout Israel.

Since then, the words and music of this lovely creation have continued to be passed along via an informal network of friends in Israel and beyond. Awareness of Shir Lismoach (in English “A Song of Joy” – or simply Malki’s Song) has spread far. It’s upbeat, optimistic and happy – just as Malki always was.

The musical score of “Malki’s Song” [PDF document] is here.