Our choir director used to do a religious version of Axton's "Joy to the World" in our Catholic parish. The one time the choir did the song when I was there, I went and sat with the congregation and didn't sing. I threatened to walk out if he did it again - and for once, he actually respected my sensitivities. He claims Axton himself wrote the religious lyrics and that it starts out:

Jeremiah was a prophet,
Moses was a prophet too...

I've heard beyond those two lines only once, because those two lines were enough to start me screaming in protest. Just to satisfy my curiosity, does anybody know the rest of it, and if Axton really wrote the "religious" version? Am I right in thinking this is truly tacky, or should I be more open-minded?
-Joe Offer-