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Thread #142517 Message #3286905
Posted By: Joe Offer
08-Jan-12 - 04:17 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Epiphany! Should we be wassailing?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Epiphany! Should we be wassailing?
Well, our church youth group served dinner to homeless people, and I did the invocation before dinner (they called me "pastor Joe"). I sang them this Epiphany classic:
We three kings of Orient are, Smoking on a two-bit cigar It was loaded, it exploded... Boom!
Somebody said the song sounded like it came from an Irish pub. I said I learned it in Catholic school - same thing....
So I read the Epiphany story in the Gospel of Matthew, and had our youth group kids sing the real "We Three Kings" with me, and a good time was had by all.