Songs that reference JWs

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  Gopher

  KINGDOM HALL

  By Van Morrison

  So glad to see you
  So glad you're here
  Come here beside me now
  We can clear inhibition away
  All inhibitions
  Throw them away
  And when we dance like this
  Like we've never been dancin' before
  
  Chorus:
  Oh, they were swingin'
  Down at Kingdom Hall
  Oh, bells were ringin'
  Down at the Kingdom Hall
  A choir was singin'
  Down at the Kingdom Hall
  Hey, liley, liley, liley
  Hey, liley, liley, low
  Do do do do do do, do
  Do do do do do do
  Do do do do do do, do
  Do do do do do do
  
  Good body music
  Brings you right here
  Free flowin' motion now
  When we're shakin' it out on the floor
  Good rockin' music
  Down in your shoes
  And when we dance like this
  Like we've never been dancin' before
  
  Repeat Chorus
  
  Down at the Kingdom Hall
  They were havin' a party
  They were havin' a ball
  Bells were ringing out
  And the choir was singin'
  Hey, liley, liley, liley
  Hey, liley, liley, low
  Do do, do do, do do, do do
  Sugar was there
  Did you see Sugar
  Down at the Kingdom Hall
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  LisaRose

  Obviously, Van has never actually been inside a Kingdom Hall.
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  nvrgnbk

  Obviously, Van has never actually been inside a Kingdom Hall.

  Actually Van's mother took him to the hall when he was a wee one.
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  Tristram

  Source: Interview with Van Morrison, conducted by Stephen Davis; from the August 1985 issue of the magazine New Age; transcribed by David Chance
  URL: http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/reviews/1985newage.html

  Davis: There's a lot of the gospel sound in your music. Is it true your family were Jehovah's Witnesses?

  Van Morrison: No no no no, not really. My mother was in it for a while, a brief encounter, that was all.

  Davis:: Were you taken door-to-door as a child with the Witnesses?

  Van Morrison: No, but I was taken to a couple of meetings. I found them quite pleasant, but that was all.
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  Tristram

  "England" - by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine:

  I was born under a wandering star in the second council house of Virgo Forceply removed from the belly of my ma and raised on milk and Pernod So just lie back and think of England Because I slid down bannisters for judges and bannisters reader's wives' husbands with toothless decay I've been GBH'd and ABH'd for a packet of B & H I've been taken and I've been driven away I was fornicating before I could read or write and now I can't stop, sir I graduated from the Universty of Life and the school of hard knocks, sir And my telephone is always ringing and my number is triple-X directory call 0898 treble three Talk dirty to me Oh come on all ye unfaithful, joyful, triumphant and pathetically weak I've been Amsterdamned, Reeperbahned, wham bam no thank you mammed If the spirit is willing then the telephone's cheap And if you want to step outside love you step outside love with me You can step outside with me And if we ever meet again Don't know where and I don't care when I'm gonna help you with you're sickness like a Jehovah's Witness you'll be born again and again, and again Just lie back, close your eyes and think of England and what England's done for me 
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  Tristram

  Goodbye Stranger - Supertramp

  (Sweet devotion)
  Goodbye mary,
  (It's not for me)
  Goodbye Jane
  (Just give me motion)
  Will we ever
  (And set me free)
  Meet again

  Sounds like he's singing about weed to me. Heh heh.
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  KW13

  Here is one...

  D12 - Pistol Pistol

  I pasted the bit with it in..

  This nine'll turn a softy to a hard rock
  it'll make Jehova's Witnesses think before they knock (Sorry, sorry!)
  It'll make your grandmother come out of her hearse
  it'll make Limp Bizkit get rid of Fred Durst (Ha ha!)
  It'll make Holyfield start fighting

  D12 - Words are Weapons

  I'm in divorce court, sold my B**** off a pack of Newports
  (Your honor!) Six times I been arrested; how would you feel
  if you was a Jehovah witness that always got molested?
  (It happens) I'm smokin dank drikin drank

  Basically the group D12 has a member called Bizarre who's mum was a JW as was he when he was young.

  The 'it happens' in brackets is in relation to that.
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  avidbiblereader

  It is a ballad by Jimmy Buffet, it is called the Asshole Song and it goes like this

  Well I was drivin' down I-95 the other night.
  Somebody nearly cut me right off the road.
  I decided it wasn't gonna do any good to get mad.
  So I wrote a song about him instead.

  It goes like this...
  
  Were you born an asshole?
  Or did you work at it your whole life?
  Either way it worked out fine
  'cause you're an asshole tonight.
  
  Yes you're an A S S H O L E...
  And don't you try to blame it on me.
  You deserve all the credit.
  You're an asshole tonight.
  
  You were an asshole yesterday.
  You're an asshole tonight.
  And I've got a feelin'
  you'll be an asshole the rest of your life.
  
  And I was talkin' to your mother
  just the other night.
  I told her I thought you were an asshole.
  She said, "Yes. I think you're right."
  
  And all your friends are assholes
  'cause you've known them your whole life.
  And somebody told me
  you've got an asshole for a wife.
  
  Were you born an asshole?
  Or did you work at it your whole life?
  Either way it worked out fine
  'cause you're an aaaass...hole tonight.

  Sorry it was the only one that I could think of.

  abr
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  needproof

  Do you remember The New Radicals? Dont let go, you got the music in you! Not exactly referring to JW's, but the group made an album 'maybe you were brainwashed too' and were ex Dubs.
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  Tristram

  Do you remember The New Radicals? Dont let go, you got the music in you! Not exactly referring to JW's, but the group made an album 'maybe you were brainwashed too' and were ex Dubs.

  Yeah, I think his mother was one and he wasn't into it. He also wrote this song "Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You." Meet a girl I met Carolina
  Her parents jumped off Niagara Falls
  She broke her hips when she was a baby
  trying to hop the Berlin wall
  It's not that she's anti-American
  although she shot a mayor at nine
  He looked just like the prez on T.V
  she didn't know in '63 he had died
  Does she think this world is all wrong
  Does she think I'll rob her and run
  When I ask her she gets her gun
  and simply says scat boy scat scat
  But isn't it a wonderful world Carolina
  Look at the birds in the sky
  Jehovah made this whole joint for you, Carolina
  and isn't it so wonderful to be alive
  So original in her black lipstick
  listening to some obscure band
  But isn't she pissed that all the other non-conformists
  listen to that same obscure band
  That's OK she's helping the enviroment
  by sipping pure water and such
  Then she screams we better start thinking about the ozone layer,
  while tossing out a styrofoam cup
  Does she think this world is all wrong
  Does she think I'll rob her and run
  When I ask her she gets her gun
  She simply says scat boy scat scat
  But isn't it a wonderful world Carolina
  Look at the birds in the sky
  Jehovah made this whole joint for you, Carolina
  so isn't it so wonderful to be alive
  Real deep s*** on her mind
  "Let's kill the world, take over everything"
  She says, "We dont need politicians; they breed mistrust,
  and as a matter of fact did you steal my purse?"
  Yeah, but isn't it a wonderful world Carolina
  look at the birds in the sky
  Jehovah made this whole joint for you, Carolina
  so isn't it wonderful to be alive
  Huh isn't it beautiful to be a...
  Isn't it wonderful to be alive...
  F*** yeah, it's so wonderful I feel like..
  Dying Smiling...