The Nothing Song first captures, in Yiddish, the Nothing Modern/Nothing Permitted character of ultraorthodox life: Montik, gornisht Dinstik, gornisht Midvokh un Donershtik gornisht Fraytik, far a noveneh Gornisht pikveleh Shabes nach a mool gornisht It then, in English, moves on to the yeshiva curriculum: Reading, nothing Writing, nothing Even arithmetic, nothing Geography, philosophy, history, nothing Social anthropology, a lot of nothing