Songs about The Rapture

Subject: Songs about The Rapture
From: The Og
Date: 28 Mar 26 - 01:36 PM

Couldn't find a Rapture Song thread, so I'll try this... What if you were raptured but sent back down? What if it happened a second time? What it it happened again and again?


Raptured and Rejected …parody (?)    …tune “Farther Along”
                                                               ©? Bill Ogden (2024)
                           1            4          1
Rap-tured and rejected, never selected,
                                     2                  5
Always neglected, oh, where can I go?
                            1         4             1
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, day 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”

Subject: ADD: The Man Comes Around (Johnny Cash)
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 26 - 02:00 PM

The man comes around (Johnny Cash)

THE MAN COMES AROUND
(Johnny Cash)

There's a man going around taking names
And he decides who to free and who to blame
Everybody won't be treated all the same
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down
When the Man comes around

The hairs on your arm will stand up
At the terror in each sip and in each sup
Will you partake of that last offered cup?
Or disappear into the potter's ground
When the Man comes around

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling, voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

Till Armageddon no shalam, no shalom
Then the father hen will call his chickens home
The wise man will bow down before the throne
And at His feet they'll cast their golden crowns
When the Man comes around

Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the Man comes around

Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers
One hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come

And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

In measured hundred weight and penny pound
When the Man comes around.