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Thread #33399   Message #3898232
Posted By: Joe Offer
08-Jan-18 - 11:24 PM
Thread Name: Eastertide and Music
Subject: ADD: Friday Morning (Sydney Carter)
Up above, David Carter mentioned Sydney Carter's "Friday Morning," so I had to find it.

Raymond Crooke posted a YouTube performance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcjAd-jp81I

...and lyrics here: http://www.raymondfolk.com/page/Friday+Morning

Lyrics are from the Lovely in the Dances CD, which has lyrics slightly different from the Crooke recording.

FRIDAY MORNING
(Sydney Carter)

It was on a Friday morning
That they took me from the cell
And I saw they had a carpenter
To crucify as well.

CHORUS
You can blame it on to Pilate,
You can blame it on the Jews
You can blame it on the Devil.
It's God I accuse.

"It's God they ought to crucify
Instead of you and me,"
I said to the carpenter,
A-hanging on the tree.

You can blame it on to Adam,
You can blame it on to Eve.
You can blame it on the apple,
But that I can't believe.
It was God that made the Devil
And the woman and the man,
And there wouldn't be an apple
If it wasn't in the plan.
CHORUS

Now Barabbas was a killer
And they let Barabbas go,
But you are being crucified
For nothing that I know,
And your God is in his Heaven
And He doesn't do a thing,
With a million angels watching
And they never move a wing.
CHORUS

"To hell with Jehovah,"
To the carpenter, I said
"I wish that a carpenter
Had made the world instead.
Goodbye and good luck to you;
If our ways divide.
Remember me tomorrow
The man you hung beside."
CHORUS



Chords:

Dm ............ Am .... Dm
It was on a Friday morning
................ Am ................... Dm
That they took me from the cell

And I saw they had a carpenter
...... Am ........ Dm
To crucify as well.

You can blame it on to Pilate,
...................................... Am
You can blame it on the Jews
............... Dm
You can blame it on the Devil.
........... Am .. Dm
It?s God I accuse.

?It?s God they ought to crucify
.............................. Am
Instead of you and me,?
... Dm
I said to the carpenter,
.... Am ................ Dm
A-hanging on the tree.


Interestingly, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen did a sermon based on this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqyU0v1easY

There's a very credible YouTube recording from the Lovely in the Dances CD, but it's probably not available in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45pJBc8MncY
Performed by: Robert Johnson · Vince Cross · Rick Kemp · Nigel Pegrum