This is entirely from memory, so it may not be 100% accurate: VICAR IS A BEATNIK (Sydney Carter) 'Good morning', said the vicar, with a banjo round his neck; 'We're digging up the crypt', he said, 'to make a discotheque'. So we're writing to the bishop to say that we are shocked, For the vicar is a beatnik and he ought to be defrocked. At early morning service he plays a mandolin; I'm never there to hear it but I think it is a sin. So we're writing to the bishop to say that we are shocked, For the vicar is a beatnik and he ought to be defrocked. I love the merry organ and the bells across the snow; I love the Church of England, although I never go. I love the dear old Bible with 'Jehovah', and 'begat' - It's not that I believe in it or anything like that! (It's not that we believe in it or anything like that). Just marry us and bury us the way you used to do - With a blast upon the organ, and not on your kazoo. So we're writing to the bishop to say that we are shocked, For the vicar is a beatnik and he ought to be defrocked.
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