Great, one of the best short satires we had in a long time. Would it be possible you could post a text of the lyrics ?
Sure I can. Also, it is included in my brand new book, "Food for Thought, Songs and Poems without music". It took me 40 years to write!
You can buy it in "hard copy" if you like and pay with Pay Pal. That way I get something for my efforts.
My royalty on Amazon or B&N is about $1.40! E-mail me at <fishline79@yahoo.com> if interested
By the way, if you click on the CC box at the bottom of the YouTube screen, you can follow the lyrics while you listen.
“Uncommon Sense”
(There is no logic to support the belief that the religious persuasion
of any demographic or ethnic group condemns them to damnation,
or grants them an extraordinary state of grace. The presumption
of this credo is the domain of missionaries and Evangelicals.)
Mother told me, “Your head isn’t hollow
So be careful what garbage you swallow”
Just control your desire to jump in the fire
Beware of whose counsel you follow
God’s disciple, old Abraham Cohen
Knew that cracks in his faith must be showin’
When God said just for fun
“Go and round up your son
There is something that I must be knowin’”
God told Abe to go sharpen his cutter
Or go bash Isaac’s brains into butter
“You’ll be back in my grace if you promise to hasten
To follow each order I utter”
But then God said to Abe, “I was jokin’
And that shtick was no more than a token
Of your loyalty to me…you can set Isaac free”
Abe replied, “What the fuck you been smokin?”
If Mohammed or Buddha or Jesus
Don’t provide the incentive to please us
You can leave them alone and go search for your own
May your search be enough to appease us
Scientology isn’t a science
Every cult is a form of defiance
Every ism’s a crutch they don’t offer you much
And are nothing without your compliance
Rastafarian, Wiggin or Deist
Rosecrution or Baptist or Theist
You can search ‘til you’re blue but it’s all up to you
In the end we will see who’s the freest
Whether Mormon or mystic or Mason
Or whatever wild goose you be chasin’
You can circle the Earth for a gospel of worth
In the end it’s your fate you’ll be facin’
If your god should assign you a mission
And require you to take some position
Though you’re trusting in him don’t go out on a limb
In the end it’s just all superstition
Mother told me “Your head isn’t hollow
So be careful what garbage you swallow
Just control your desire to jump in the fire
Beware of whose counsel you follow.”
“They that observe lying vanities, forsake their
Own mercy.” Bible, (Jonah 2/8)
“This would be the best of all possible worlds if there
Were no religion in it” John Adams
When Eugene V. Debs led his class in spelling at Terre Haute’s “Old
Seminary School”, his teacher gave him a Bible which read
“Read and obey” on the fly leaf…“I did neither”, he remarked later.
@fishline79 Thank you.
@Fernapple I didn't realize you were in the U.K. If you want a book you will have to get it through Amazon like several of my friends there have done. The postal charge from here is obscene!
@fishline79 Thanks for he warning, but I do have a bookstore locally who manage to get me American books at little extra charge, I don't know how they do it but it works. Sadly I am barred from Amazon.