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- From: bgarfink@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (beth diane garfinkel)
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- Subject: Old Time Religion
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:22:39 GMT
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- I finally found where I had saved a collection of verses to "Gimme that
- Old Time Religion" off of Usenet, and I was inspired to try my hand at
- adding to it:
-
- Let's not be hidebound like a Hasid
- 'Cause all his rules are mighty cussed
- And it's freedom makes us blessed,
- And that's good enough for me.
-
- Let us not blush for Aurora
- Who was caught without her drawers,
- She got hers, so let's get ours,
- That's good enough for me.
-
- Let us worship bright Apollo
- Without him, music would be holow
- There's no god I'd rather follow
- He's good enough for me.
-
- Let us brave the wrath of Satan
- Who would rather have us hatin'
- Than transubstantiatin'
- That's good enough for me.
-
- We will worship like the Shakers,
- 'Cause their dances were bone-breakers,
- We will live in God's chaste acres
- And that's good enough for me.
-
- Let us now praise L. Ron Hubbard
- Who put millions in his cupboard
- And vanished not to be discovered,
- He's good enough for me.
-
- Beth
- Let us gather by the river
- And pledge true faith to God forever
- And feast upon chopped liver,
- It's good enough for me.
- --
- "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
- -Arthur Dent, on being told that the Earth is about to blow up.
-