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Posted By: Jim Dixon
07-Aug-09 - 02:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Sunday School
Subject: Lyr Add: BIBLE STORIES (from "More Pious Friends..
From More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions by Frank Shay, Helen Ramsey, John Held (New York: Macaulay Co., 1928), page 112:

BIBLE STORIES

1. The earth was made in six days and finished on the seventh.
According to the contract it should have been the 'leventh.
The carpenters got drunk and the Masons wouldn't work,
So the cheapest thing to do was to fill it up with dirt.

CHORUS: Old folks, young folks, everybody come!
Join the darkies' Sunday school and make yourselves at home.
Kindly check your chewing gum and razors at the door,
And we'll tell you Bible stories that you never heard before.

2. Adam was the first man and Eve was his spouse.
They lost their job for stealing fruit and went to keeping house.
All was very peaceful and quiet on the main,
Until a little baby came and they started raising Cain.

3. The Lord made the devil, and the devil made sin.
The Lord made a cubbyhole to put the devil in.
The devil got sore and said he wouldn't stay.
The Lord said he had to, 'cause he couldn't get away.

4. Cain he raised potatoes and he peddled them in town.
Abel called him hayseed every time he came around.
Cain he laid a stick of wood on Brother Abel's head,
And when he took that stick away, he found poor Abel dead.

5. Noah was the keeper of the Asiatic zoo.
He built an ocean liner when he hadn't much to do.
One day he got excited when the sky was getting dark,
So he gathered all his animals and put them in the ark..

6. It rained for forty days and it rained for forty nights.
The water washed the land completely out of sight.
But when Noah was a-wondering as to what he'd better do,
The ark hit Mount Ararat and stuck as tight as glue.

7. Methuselah is famous because he couldn't croak,
Although he finally grew to be an old and seedy bloke.
He had so many whiskers that you couldn't see his head.
If he'd lived a little longer, he'd have used them for his bed.

8. Elijah was an aeronaut, or else I am a liar.
He ascended up to heaven in a chariot of fire.
His eccentric disappearance gave the Israelites a shock.
They said he beat the Wright brothers by fully half a block.

9. Abraham was a patriarch, the father of his set.
He took his little Ikey out to kill him on a bet,
And he'd have met his finish if it wasn't for a lamb,
For papa had his razor out and didn't give a damn!

10. Esau was a cowboy of a wild and woolly make.
His father gave him half the land and half to brother Jake;
But when he saw his title to the land it wasn't clear,
He sold it to his brother for a sandwich and a glass of beer!

11. Daniel was a brave man who wouldn't mind the king.
The king he said he never heard of such a thing;
Thrust him down a man-hole with lions all beneath,
But Daniel was a dentist and pulled the lion's teeth.

12. Jonah was an emigrant; so runs the Bible tale.
He took an ocean voyage in a transatlantic whale.
The whale was over-crowded which put Jonah to distress,
So Jonah pushed the button and the whale did all the rest.

13. David was a shepherd's boy, his mother's pride and joy.
His father gave him a slingshot, a harmless little toy.
Along came Goliath, a-looking for a fuss.
David heaved a cobblestone and caved in his crust.

14. Samson was a strong man of the John L. Sullivan school.
He killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a mule.
Along came a woman who filled him up with gin,
And shaved off his whiskers and the coppers pulled him in.