Lyr Req: Joan Osborne song parody

Subject: Joan Osbourne song
From: Morticia
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 07:07 PM

You know, I hate to stir things up even more but the threads relating to christianity got me thinking about this song sung by Joan Osbourne called " What if God smoked Cannibus" ( her spelling not mine)....which is a parody on her " What if God were one of us" song.....does anyone have the words as I would love to have them.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Osbourne song
From: sophocleese
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 08:37 PM

Refresh, cause I'd love to have the words to this one as well.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Osbourne song
From: Pene Azul
Date: 22 Aug 00 - 08:57 PM

Is this the same one?

PA

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Osbourne song
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Aug 00 - 09:36 AM

huge great snog to Jeff........thanks everso....

Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT IF GOD SMOKED CANNABIS? (Bob Rivers)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 26 Sep 02 - 09:19 PM

Sorry, Joan Osborne didn't write the parody. It was Bob Rivers, whose specialty is parodies. He gave us "Twisted Christmas" and several other albums. The singers aren't even credited by name, at least not on his website as far as I can see, and not on the little thumbnail pictures of his album covers. Anyway, I'm pretty sure that's not Joan Osborne's voice we hear singing the parody.

You can hear an .mp3 file here: http://new.twistedtunes.com/store/store_detail.asp?ProductID=6

Lyrics copied from http://www.420station.com/lyrics/bob_rivers-what_if_god_smoked_cannabis.cfm (and checked against the audio file).

WHAT IF GOD SMOKED CANNABIS?
(Bob Rivers)

If God had long hair
And a goatee and if His eyes were pretty glazed,
If He looked spaced out would you buy His story?
Would you believe He had an eye infection?

And, yeah, yeah, God looks baked
Yeah, yeah, God smells good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What if God smoked cannabis?
Hit the bong like some of us?
Drove a tie-dyed microbus?
And he subscribes to Rolling Stone?

When God made this place in the beginning,
Did he plant any seeds?
Or did he put them there for Adam and Eve
So they'd be hungry for the apple that the snake
Was always offering?

And yeah, yeah, God rolls great.
Yeah, yeah, God smells good.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What if God smoked cannabis?
Do you s'pose he had a buzz
When he made the platypus?
When he created Earth our home?
Does he like Pearl Jam or The Stones?
And do you think he rolls his own
Up there in heaven on the throne?
And when the saints go marching home
Maybe he sits and smokes a bowl.

[Recorded by Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio on "The Best of Twisted Tunes, Vol. 2" Atlantic CD 83045, 1997.]

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Joan Osborne song parody
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 27 Sep 02 - 02:19 PM

I have it on MP3 morty, send me your e-mail and I'll try and download it for you.

Cheers

Eric