Busy Being Born

Busy Being Born
Busy Being Born
Studio album by Gary Lucas
Released	March 17, 1998
Genre	Folk
Length	49:07
Label	Tzadik
Producer	Gary Lucas, Kazunori Sugiyama
Gary Lucas chronology

ReleasedMarch 17, 1998

Length49:07

Busy Being Born is an album by Gary Lucas, released in 1998 through Tzadik Records.^[3]^[4] It is an album of children's songs.^[5]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Adon Olom" (Instrumental)	Traditional arr.	1:30
2.	"Adon Olom" (Vocal)	Traditional arr.	3:11
3.	"Shekhinah"		2:19
4.	"Sandman"		4:27
5.	"Sunrise Sunset"	Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick	2:53
6.	"Tradition"	Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick	2:35
7.	"The Mensch in the Moon"	Walter Horn, Gary Lucas	5:07
8.	"Lydia, The Tattooed Lady"	Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg	2:06
9.	"Crawlspace"		3:08
10.	"Dayenu/Dreidel"	Traditional arr.	2:56
11.	"Fleischerei"	Green, Lerner, Timberg	3:01
12.	"A Hundred Pounds of Clay"	Luther Dixon, Bob Elgin, Kay Rogers	2:41
13.	"The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao"	Leigh Harline	2:06
14.	"Abie the Fishman"		2:28
15.	"Hinay Ma Tov"	Traditional arr.	2:53
16.	"Theme from Exodus"	Ernest Gold	2:50
17.	"Adon Olom" (Acappella)	Traditional arr.	2:56

v t e Gary Lucas
Studio albums	Gods and Monsters (1992) Bad Boys of the Arctic (1994) Evangeline (1997) Busy Being Born (1998) Street of Lost Brothers (2000)
Collaboration albums	Pražská Strašidla (The Ghosts of Prague) (1996) Songs to No One 1991–1992 (2002) Other World (2014)
Live albums	Skeleton at the Feast (1991)
EPs	@ Paradiso (1999)
Related	Gods and Monsters

Track listing