What if you are raptured and then rejected? What if it happens more than once? What if it happens again and again?


Raptured and Rejected …parody (?)    …from “Farther Along”

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Rap-tured and rejected, never selected,
                                     2                  5
Always neglected, oh, where can I go?
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There’s no controversy, others all curse me,
                                  5            1
Show me no mercy, why is it so?

Yes my demeanor, might have been cleaner
Nothing obscener, they said go away.
Begone you sinner, no chicken diner,
You’re not a winner, maybe some day.

Was it my banjo, all heaven despised so,
They always said no, just sent me away.
Alone must I wander, hither and yonder?
Reasons I ponder, fay after day.

I sang in the choir, it was a quagmire,
Tried to be a live wire, it just wasn’t so.
Altos, tenors, and bases, they made nasty faces.
Sopranos were graceless, told me where to go.

Six times I’ve been gathered, in holiness slathered,
I blathered and blathered, they sent me back down.
Listen my brethren, you’ll never know when,
They’ll call you a has-been, a rodeo clown.

5                  1
“Send up the clown”