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by mouthy 4 Replies latest social humour

  • mouthy
    mouthy

    This is called the" Watchtower & Awake" Song
    Sung to the tune of "Sweet Violets."The 2nd & 4th line of each stanza have an implied rhyme,indicated by the ( )
    that goes with the last word on the 1st & 3rd line But instead of giving you the rhyming word you would expect ,The next line goes off in a differant direction.

    There once was an elder who stood at my door,
    He said I was wicked ,my wife was a ( )
    postate & both of us might just as well
    resign from the Watchtower & go straight to ( )
    bed without dinner for doubting their word,
    that everything God said was written-in- the

    Watchtower an Awake
    5 cents a copy ...
    If you don't believe it you surely will die,
    Don't mis an issue of the Watchtower an" Awake

    I've gone to the meetings since I was a lad
    but t'wasnt till later I learned I'd been ( )
    spending my life in a rat-race of works,
    thinking that all other Christians were ( )
    very nice people ,though in Satan's power,
    who'd only be saved if they'd just read the

    Watchtower & Awake
    4 bits a copy
    Thank Jimmie Swaggert we now give 'em free
    We pay no taxes on Watchtower an Awake

    In "Seventy-five,they expected the end
    A promise so certain that we should de-( )
    lay all our pleasures & put life on hold
    forget about pensions,we'd never get ( )
    weary of preaching,'cause we knew for sure,
    that what God confided they'd put in the

    Watchtower & Awake...
    Announcing God's Kingdom.
    If it's revised,we'll keep you advised
    Keep up to date with the Watchtower an Awake

    In seventy -nine some in Brooklyn did get
    in trouble for reading & not knowing ( )
    that it was bad to read Bibles at home.
    For soon you'd be rabid & your mouth would ( )
    start telling others the fact from God's word,
    instead of the present truth found in the

    Watchtower an Awake
    Read every issue
    Don't criticize what you read with your eyes,
    Keep in lock-step with the Watchtower & Awake

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    Has to be sung to Sweet Violets

    I found it funny if you insert the rhyming words.

  • Junction-Guy
    Junction-Guy

    Thanks for sharing this song, I remember it from PA. I just didnt remember the words.

  • Sparkplug
    Sparkplug

    Love it Mouthy! I always get that diddy 'Sweet Violets' stuck in my head. This was great!!

  • Mysterious
    Mysterious

    Interesting writing tactic.

  • juni
    juni

    That was very cute Grace! So true; and I like the "fill in the blank" prose.....

    Hugs, Juni

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