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Thread #21536   Message #4174279
Posted By: cnd
10-Jun-23 - 11:24 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Sunday School
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Sunday School
PHJim, here's the version Oscar Brand sings on Back-Room Ballads (CMS Records, 1949). Note that he did later release the song on Songs Inane Only (Riverside Records, 1959) and that it could be a different version. The 1949 record sadly came with no liner notes.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

Young folks, old folks, everybody come
Come into the Sunday school and make yourself to hum
There's a place to chuck your shootin' iron and chewn' gum at the door
I'll tell you Bible stories that you never heard before

Esau was an ancient man of the wild and woolly make.
Half the farm belonged to him and half to Brother Jake.
Esau thought his title to the farm was none to clear *
So he sold it to his brother for a sandwich and a beer

Young folks, old folks, everybody come
Come into the Sunday school and make yourself to hum
There's a place to chuck your shootin' iron and chewn' gum at the door
I'll tell you Bible stories that you never heard before

Elijah was a prophet who attended all the fairs
He advertised his business with a pair of dancing bears.
He held a sale of prophecies every afternoon
Went up in the evenings in a big red balloon

Young folks, old folks, everybody come
Come into the Sunday school and make yourself to hum
There's a place to chuck your shootin' iron and chewn' gum at the door
I'll tell you Bible stories that you never heard before

There's plenty of these Bible tales, I'll tell you one tomorrow
How Lot, his wife and family left Sodom and Gomorrah
His wife, she turned to mucilage -- she stuck upon the spot
Became a salty monument and really missed a "Lot"

Young folks, old folks, everybody come
Come into the Sunday school and make yourself to hum
There's a place to chuck your shootin' iron and chewn' gum at the door
I'll tell you Bible stories that you never heard before

Noah was a mariner, he sailed across the sea
He had a half a dozen wives and a big menagerie
He failed the first season when it rained for forty days
And in that kind of weather, the circus never pays

Young folks, old folks, everybody come
Come into the Sunday school and make yourself to hum
There's a place to chuck your shootin' iron and chewn' gum at the door
I'll tell you Bible stories that you never heard before

* This line copied from above, my record skips from "Esau" to "clear"