My first anti-hymn "Phil Ochs - The Canons of Christianity"

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Mon Nov-01-10 04:01 AM
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My first anti-hymn "Phil Ochs - The Canons of Christianity"

Edited on Mon Nov-01-10 04:12 AM by ConsAreLiars

Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-h8t6Oz8EI
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Lyrics at http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/ballad-of-the-carpenter.html

edit to add a few words from those lyrics:

When the rich men heard what the carpenter had done
To the Roman troops they ran
Saying put this rebel Jesus down
He's a menace to God and man
He's a menace to God and man

The commander of the occupying troops
Just laughed and then he said
"There's a cross to spare on Calvaries hill
By the weekend he'll be dead
By the weekend he'll be dead"

Now Jesus walked among the poor
For the poor were his own kind
And they'd never let them get near enough
To take him from behind
To take him from behind

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