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Thread #38178 Message #2868708
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-Mar-10 - 02:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: S-A-V-E-D
Subject: Lyr Add: S-A-V-E-D (John F. Weldon)
John F. Weldon's version deserves to be transcribed and displayed here.
SPOILER ALERT! I think the song is funnier if you hear it before you see it. I recommend you do that before you read the following lyrics—see the link above.
S-A-V-E-D (John F. Weldon)
There's a guy in our town, B-R-O-W-N. He prays for prohibition but he votes for G-I-N. He helps to put the p'ison in his neighbor's C-U-P, And yet he has the brass to say he's S-A-V-E-D.
Well, it's G-L-O-R-Y to know I'm S-A-V-E-D. I'm H-A-P-P-Y 'cause I'm F-R-double-E. I once was B-O-U-N-D with the chains of S-I-N, But it's V-I-C-T-O-R-Y to know I've Christ within.
There's a man in our town reads the Bible through and through. He prays for peace but votes for war against I-R-A-Q. He'll fight to get the G-A-S to fill his S-U-V, And yet he has the brass to say he's S-A-V-E-D.
I want you all to know that I'm S-A-V-E-D, And when I D-I-E, I'll play a new H-A-R-P. I'll be in G-L-O-R-Y, but you'll be in a fix When you're headin' down to H-E-double-hockey-sticks.
I went to see my neighbor, that's B-R-O-W-N. I brought the B-I-B-L-E. He served me G-I-N, And then S-C-O-T-C-H, and then some R-Y-E. We sang out "Hallelujah!" We were F-A-C-E-D.
I'd like you all to know that I'm F-A-C-E-D. I'm H-A-P-P-Y 'cause I'm T-I-G-H-T. Some say I've got D-I-P-S-O-M-A-N-I-A, But I prefer to think I'm just a D-R-U-N-K.
There's some M-U-S-I-C that rises out o' hell. It's called H-E-A-V-Y M-E-T-A-L. What the L-Y-R-I-C-S mean, I'd have to guess, 'Cause they're sometimes singin' backwards, praisin' N-A-T-A-S.
I'm not A-F-R-A-I-D that someday I may die. In heaven, M-U-S-I-C is F-O-L-K-Y. There's one T-H-I-N-G that Y-O-U should know: I'll go U-P to Heaven with my B-A-N-J-O.
No B-U-D-D-H-I-S-T floundering in Zen Will rise up like a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N, And bound for H-A-D-E-S the new-age D-E-C- O-N-S-T-R-U-C-T-I-O-N-I-S-T.
And if you know what I mean when I say T-R-A-N- S-U-B-S-T-A-N-T-I-A-T-I-O-N, Your soul will never feel the F-I-R-E-S of Hell. You're S-A-V-E-D and can S-P-E-L-L.