PARODY ON ' SEE THEM LYING ON A BED OF PAPER '

PARODY ON CALYPSO CAROL;  ' SEE HIM LYING IN A BED OF STRAW '

See him lying on a bed of straw
Wondering if Joseph really was his da
Or if his mother just had a fling ?
With a free spirit who came fucking ?

Which bits are fiction and which bits real ?
Do priests have much, to conceal ?
A literary creation, like a script ?
Incorporating ideas from Egyptian crypt ?

[ If you are not sure of the words in church just stick with " lie ". Quite important to get the accent in the right place ]

Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie
Lie lie lie lie lie lie truth ( things are seldom black and white )

See them lying on a pad of paper
Inventing stories of a holy caper
making folk worry about when they die
making a living out of a bloody lie

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PARODY ON ' PRAISE MY SOUL THE KING OF HEAVEN '  tune by John Goss

Praise my tongue the king of heaven

If he's not like the Bible paints

Praise him if we're strictly mortal

And no hell for anyone awaits

Praise him, criticize him, Praise him, criticise him ?

If the Bible is errant

Praise him if he has an excuse

For not doing the good  he should

Maybe he's ill or away on holiday ?

Or maybe he has simply passed away ?

Praise him, cristicise him, Praise him, criticize him ?

If Jesus has been misquoted

Is it fact or is it fiction ?

Or a mixture in between?

Is it real or is it unreal

Is there no supernatural realm ?

Can we know ? Were is the evidence ?

Could it be  we are alone ?

Praise my tongue the king of heaven
Though I doubt that he exists
and I hope the bible's fiction
and wonder how it still persists
criticize him, criticize him, criticize him, criticize him
criticism is what he is worthy of

Criticize my tongue the God of the Bible
if he'd let men rot in hell
criticize him if he has the power
but would let us suffer on earth as well
mock him, mock him , mock him, mock him
mock the image that men call God


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PARODY ON " THE DAY THOU GAVEST LORD HAS ENDED "

The life thou gavest lord has ended
another slips down the chute to hell
I wonder lord if you ever worry
that you will end up there as well

To have the power to avoid it
yet let us rot is sort of  sin
and if with love you'd analyse it
the doctrine of hell you'd chuck in the bin