He was a family man until the second baby came

Then he ran and he ran to a woman with six of 'em

And a Hasidic Jew with a history too

Took the two kids plus the six on weekends and holidays

And once in the winter the family man splintered

And a drug addicted cousin caught a wind of the news

That a plot was in motion to take two kids over an ocean

Yeah, he'd pack them up their suitcases

He's taking them to Israel

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Ariel!

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Ariel!

He started speakin' in tongues

While the girls were quite young

Leaving heartbroken and beautiful the opera singer mother

With a step to the phone and an aggravated moan

Made a call to the cops to stop the stealing of her daughters, then she

Went up the stairs, taking each the steps in pairs

Says "Oh my, baby girls, I am really scared!"

But a call to the cops made a stop to the plot

And they fought him and they caught him with his tickets in his pockets

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Ariel!

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Ariel!

After a couple of years, she found a phone against her ear

As she waited for an answer from her long abandoned father, who left

When she was a child weepy eyed and mild and she

She heard a click and said; "Dad, this is your daughter,"

Then she heard a voice, foreign and familiar

And she sang to the voice, foreign and familiar

And she poured her heart out, foreign and familiar

And she found herself crying with a foreign father figure

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Ariel!

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Oh ah ah ah, oh ah ah ah oh

Ariel!