[Nobar King]

Re: your favorite Christian song

I am the light of this world
By Rev. Gary Davis

Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world
Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world
Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world
Just as long as I'm in this world I am the light of this world
Oh you don't believe in Jesus and not a word he said
When he come way on down to Lazarus grave and raise him from the dead
I've got fiery fingers and I've got fiery hands
And when I get up in heaven gonna join in that fiery band
Prayer is the key to heaven and faith unlocks the door
That's why God give me the key to carry wherever I go
I know I got religion I know I ain't ashamed
For the Holy Ghost is my witness, and the angels done signed my name
Didn't they take John The Baptist and put him in a kettle of oil
God got in there with him and they tell me the oil didn't boil

Praise JESUS!

[Roberta]

Re: your favorite Christian song

I would think that Jesus would love music.

Wrong, Dancer! He is from an island in the North Atlantic and his father owns restaurants that serve retsina, offal and feta cheese.

Zeus, Apollo, Hercules, Poseiden, Achilles, Narcissus...all the gods that the greeks worship were butt pirates. I think in greek culture it is considered quite alright to swallow swords.

[Scheherazade]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Oh my.

The depraved act of sword swallowing was also done as a performance in ancient Arabian times.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Wrong, Dancer! He is from an island in the North Atlantic and his father owns restaurants that serve retsina, offal and feta cheese.

Zeus, Apollo, Hercules, Poseiden, Achilles, Narcissus...all the gods that the greeks worship were butt pirates. I think in greek culture it is considered quite alright to swallow swords.

Some men like female sword swallowers. It's not just a gay thing.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Done With the World

Tune: B. F. White, 1844
Words: John Cennick, 1843
Meter: Long Meter Half (8,8)

Jesus, my all, to heav’n is gone,
And I don’t expect to stay much longer here.
He whom I fix my hopes upon,
And I don’t expect to stay much longer here.
I am done with the world,
And I want to serve the Lord,
And I don’t expect to stay much longer here.

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Penned my my great-grandpa's niggra

Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Coming for to carry me home


I looked over Jordan and what did I see
Coming for to carry me home
A band of angels coming after me
Coming for to carry me home
(chorus)
Sometimes I'm up and sometimes I'm down
Coming for to carry me home
But still my soul feels heavenly bound
Coming for to carry me home
(chorus)
The brightest day that I can say
Coming for to carry me home
When Jesus washed my sins away,
Coming for to carry me home.
(chorus)
If I get there before you do
Coming for to carry me home
I'll cut a hole and pull you through
Coming for to carry me home
(chorus)
If you get there before I do
Coming for to carry me home
Tell all my friends I'm coming too
Coming for to carry me home
(chorus)

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Jesus - The Missing Years (John Prine)

Jesus.... the missing years

It was raining. it was cold
West Bethlehem was no place for a twelve year old
So he packed his bags and he headed out
To find out what the world's about
He went to France. He went to Spain.
He found love. He found pain.
He found stores so he started to shop
But he had no money so he got in trouble with a cop.
Kids in trouble with the cops
From Israel didn't have no home
So he cut his hair and moved to Rome
It was there he met his Irish bride
And they rented a flat on the lower east side of Rome...
Italy that is
Music publishers, book binders, Bible belters, money changers,
Spoon benders and lots of pretty Italian chicks.

Chorus:
Charley bought some popcorn
Billy bought a car
Someone almost bought the farm
But they didn't go that far
Things shut down at midnight
At least around here they do
Cause we all reside down the block
Inside at ....23 Skidoo.

Wine was flowing so were beers
So Jesus found his missing years
So he went to a dance and said this don't move me
He hiked up his pants and he went to a movie
On his thirteenth birthday he saw Rebel Without a Cause
He went straight on home and invented Santa Claus
Who gave him a gift and he responded in kind
He gave the gift of love and went out of his mind
You see him and the wife wasnt getting along
So he took out his guitar and he wrote a song
Called The Dove of Love Fell Off the Perch
But he couldn't get divorced in the Catholic church
At least not back then anyhow
Jesus was a good guy he didnt need this shit
So he took a pill with a bag of peanuts and
A Coca-Cola and he swallowed it.
He discovered the Beatles
And he recorded with the Stones
Once he even opened up a three-way package
In Southern California for old George Jones

Repeat chorus:

The years went by like sweet little days
With babies crying, pork chops, and beaujolais
When he woke up he was seventeen
The world was angry. The world was mean.
Why the man down the street and the kid on the stoop
All agreed that life stank. All the world smelled like poop.
Baby poop that is ..the worst kind
So he grew his hair long and thew away his comb
And headed back to Jerusalem to find mom, dad and home
But when he got there the cupboard was bare
Except for an old black man with a fishing rod
He said Whatcha gonna be when you grow up?
Jesus said God
Oh my god, what have I gotten myself into?
I'm a human corkscrew and all my wine is blood
They're gonna kill me Mama. They dont like me Bud.
So Jesus went to heaven and he went there awful quick
All them people killed him and he wasnt even sick
So come and gather around me my contemporary peers
And Ill tell you all the story of
Jesus...the missing years

Repeat chorus:

We all reside down the block
Inside at ....23 Skidoo.

[Miss Maisie]

Re: your favorite Christian song

That don't sound very Christian, Joyless dancer. I do hope you haven't disguised one of them 'pop or hip-hop' songs and replaced 'baby' with 'Jesus'.

God don't like mockers nor annoying people.

[Nobar King]

Re: your favorite Christian song

And it's a song for reffer heads.

I'm a human corkscrew and all my wine is blood
They're gonna kill me Mama. They dont like me Bud.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Sing along if you like.

Drop Kick Me Jesus Through The Goalposts Of Life

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Make me, oh make me, Lord more than I am
Make me a piece in your master game plan
Free from the earthly tempestion below
I’ve got the will, Lord if you’ve got the toe.

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Take all the brothers who’ve gone on before
And all of the sisters who’ve knocked on your door
All the departed dear loved ones of mine
Stick’em up front in the offensive line.

Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

Yeah, Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

© Bobby Bare

[Nobar King]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Hot Tuna: I See The Light

In this world I'm living in I see the light
Sins are gone, now I know what is wrong and right
Morning came on slowly pushing back the night
It's good times now that I can see the light
On this road I'm walking on I see my way
Paradise I'm living for each and every day
'Bout the crossroads of the past, nothing more to say
It's good times now but we can see our way
In this sea I'm moving through, feel my life complete
With the one I'm living for time is, oh, so sweet
Feeling us together, living in the bright
It's good times now, we can see the light
In this world I'm living in I see the light
Sins are gone, now I know what is wrong and right
Morning came on slowly pushing back the night
It's good times now that we can see the light

[JennyD]

Re: your favorite Christian song

We all reside down the block
Inside at ....23 Skidoo.

23 Skidoo, eh? Interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23_Skidoo_(band)

23 Skidoo are a British band playing a fusion of industrial, experimental, post-punk, alternative dance, rock music. The group was named after a mysterious Illuminati phrase that appeared in the work of Aleister Crowley, William Burroughs and filmmaker Julian Biggs.

Hmm. Just what are you saying here, Miss Dances with Satan?

Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies, Chapter 23.

23

{Kappa-Epsilon-Phi-Alpha-Lambda-Eta Kappa-Gamma}

SKIDOO

What man is at ease in his Inn?
Get out.
Wide is the world and cold.
Get out.
Thou hast become an in-itiate.
Get out.
But thou canst not get out by the way thou camest
in. The Way out is THE WAY.
Get out.
For OUT is Love and Wisdom and Power.(12)
Get OUT.
If thou hast T already, first get UT.(13)
Then get O.
And so at last get OUT.

COMMENTARY ({Kappa-Gamma})

Both "23" and "Skidoo" are American words meaning "Get out". This chapter describes the Great Work under the figure of a man ridding himself of all his accidents.

He first leaves the life of comfort; then the world at large; and, lastly, even the initiates.

In the fourth section is shown that there is no return for one that has started on this path.

The word OUT is then analysed, and treated as a noun.

Besides the explanation in the note, O is the Yoni; T, the Lingam; and U, the Hierophant; the 5th card of the Tarot, the Pentagram. It is thus practically identical with IAO.

The rest of the chapter is clear, for the note.

NOTES
(12) O = {character?}, "The Devil of the Sabbath". U = 8, the Hierophant or Redeemer. T = Strength, the Lion.

(13) T, manhood, the sign of the cross or phallus. UT, the Holy Guardian Angel; UT, the first syllable of Udgita, see the Upanishads. O, Nothing or Nuit.

What is your secret, Satanic message?

Are you by any chance affiliated with the Order of the Eastern Star, dear?

[Roberta]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Here is another of my favorites:

The iron hand it ain't no match for the iron rod,
The strongest wall will crumble and fall to a mighty God.
For all those who have eyes and all those who have ears
It is only He who can reduce me to tears.
Don't you cry and don't you die and don't you burn
For like a thief in the night, He'll replace wrong with right
When He returns.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through,
He unleashed His power at an unknown hour that no one knew.
How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice?
How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness?
Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride?
Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease
Until He returns?

Surrender your crown on this blood-stained ground, take off your mask,
He sees your deeds, He knows your needs even before you ask.
How long can you falsify and deny what is real?
How long can you hate yourself for the weakness you conceal?
Of every earthly plan that be known to man, He is unconcerned,
He's got plans of His own to set up His throne
When He returns.

[Talitha]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Here is another of my favorites:

Ah yes! A good choice.
Written by an ex-Joo called Robert Zimmerman who gave up his Joo-ish lifestyle to become a good Christian.
In the late 70's this Hook-nosed Christ Killer found Salvation through Jesus Christ and became known as Bob Dylan.

Yet another Born again Bob.

[Old Iron Crotch]

Re: your favorite Christian song

Ah yes! A good choice.
Written by an ex-Joo called Robert Zimmerman who gave up his Joo-ish lifestyle to become a good Christian.
In the late 70's this Hook-nosed Christ Killer found Salvation through Jesus Christ and became known as Bob Dylan.

Yet another Born again Bob.

When I saw Dylan 18 years ago, and again at Jazz Fest year before last, he was singing all his pre-Christain classics.