Does anyone know the significance to this song? I heard a bunch of (query sephardic?) jews singing it while standing in a circle in a kosher restaurant in the Jewish ghetto in Venice today (saturday, i.e. shabbat).

We want shayak now,
We want shayak now,
We want shayak now, and we dont want to wait!

andrew gan

and whats shayak?
footnote: visiting the jewish museum on a saturday is a bad idea- it Will be closed. Duh!