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Thread #21536   Message #4229751
Posted By: cnd
06-Oct-25 - 11:52 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Sunday School
Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: Sunday School
Inspired by PHJim's post in another thread, I decided to transcribe Oscar Brand's rendition of "Sunday School," from Back-Room Ballads (CMS Records CMS-101, 1949). My record has a skip on the [[ ]] section which I've filled in with similar lyrics. Overall, it aligns very closely with what he recalls as having learned in Brand's songbook elsewhere.

SUNDAY SCHOOL

CHORUS
Young folks, old folks, everybody come
Come to the Sunday school and make yourself to hum
There's a place to chuck your shooting irons and chewing gum at the door
I'll tell you Bible stories that ya never heard before

Esau was an an ancient man of wild and wooly make
Half the farm belonged to him and half to brother Jake
Esau [[didn't like it, the title deeds weren't]] clear
So he sold it to his brother for a sandwich & a beer

CHORUS

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

CHORUS

There's plenty of these Bible tales, I'll ya 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"

CHORUS

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

CHORUS