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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