Friday, September 25, 2009

What do American Pie and Genesis 1-3 have in common?

Nothing until I put the two together.

After the overwhelming silence following my last post where I alerted people to my online vocal stylings I have decided that no news is good news and you actually enjoyed it. If this is true, it is nothing short of a miraculous work of the Holy Spirit. Perhaps it's simply my own delusion which would cause me to post the second song online from my lounge-room recording session.

For your listening displeasure, I now present to you Genesis 1-3 to the tune of Don McClean's American Pie.


Lyrics in comments.

2 comments:

  1. Creation Rise (Genesis 1-3)
    A long, long time ago
    Right in the beginning
    God created heavens and the earth
    Then God said, “Let there be light
    And darkness too we’ll call that night”
    Evening. Morning. Days were given birth
    The second day brought sky and water
    The third land, trees, yet still he sought a
    Crowning of creation
    But let’s not get impatient
    The fourth day, stars thrown from God’s hand
    Then animals: sea, air and land
    The sixth day he created man
    God saw that all was grand

    Oh my, my God’s a generous guy
    Everything’s free but for one tree and it’s fruit you can’t try
    It’s one simple rule of which you all must abide
    Saying “Eat of it and you’ll surely die,
    Eat of it and you’ll surely die.”

    Now the earth was full of stuff
    A command had come from God above
    To care for that raised from the ground
    Oh to animals he gave them names
    But to Adam they all looked the same
    For there was not a helper to be found
    Well the next thing Adam’s feeling tired
    Then God takes a rib from his insides
    While Adam was asleep
    And from it God made Eve
    He was a lonely man in solitude
    And then along came Eve and she changed the mood
    They didn’t care that they were nude
    Oh yes, God had a plan

    They started singing
    My, my God’s a generous guy
    Everything’s free but for one tree and it’s fruit you can’t try
    It’s one simple rule of which you all must abide
    Saying “Eat of it and you’ll surely die,
    Eat of it and you’ll surely die.”

    Now the serpent was a crafty fiend
    And slithered over and so said to Eve
    “Can’t you eat from any tree?”
    Well the fruit looked good even though she knew
    That the Lord had sad it’s not for you
    And they ate and changed all history
    Oh and as their eyes were opened wide
    They heard the Lord and ran to hide
    Aware he was exposed
    He knew he had no clothes
    When the Lord said, “Man, explain yourself!”
    The best defense came off the shelf
    He passed the blame to someone else
    But God saw through the scam

    He started saying
    My, my now you’re destined to die
    Eve’s seduction means destruction by God taking their lives
    And working the land, waving the garden goodbye
    Saying, now we’ll never be satisfied
    At least until our Saviour arrives

    The things I wish I could undo
    Cause now I need to be rescued
    Now everything is not okay
    I choose simply to ignore
    And at times I’ve simply wanted more
    Selfishness means there’s a debt that must be paid
    And in the end I am unclean
    I don’t deserve to be set free
    But now that God has spoken
    Christ fixes what is broken
    And the only man in whom I’ll boast
    Is Christ the Lord as heaven’s host
    He’ll raise me when I am a ghost
    And now I understand…

    My, my we were destined to die
    Until Jesus Christ who frees us from the chains of this life
    He walked as a man, then died and now is alive
    Praising he who took the death that was mine
    He who took the death that was mine

    My, my we were destined to die
    Until Jesus Christ who frees us from the chains of this life
    Who walked as a man, then died and now is alive
    Praising he who took the death that was mine

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