{"id":7943,"date":"2010-11-14T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T21:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7943"},"modified":"2010-11-14T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T21:45:47","slug":"everybody-believes-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/everybody-believes-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody<\/em>* Believes in Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lyrics:<\/p>\n

Atheists Don’t Have No Songs<\/strong>
\n(Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Christians have their hymns and pages,
\nHava Nagila\u2019s for the Jews,
\nBaptists have the rock of ages,
\nAtheists just sing the blues.<\/p>\n

Romantics play Claire de Lune,
\nBorn agains sing He is risen,
\nBut no one ever wrote a tune
\nFor godless existentialism.<\/p>\n

For Atheists,
\nThere\u2019s no good news,
\nThey\u2019ll never sing a song of faith.<\/p>\n

For atheists,
\nThey have a rule,
\nThe \u201che\u201d is always lowercase.
\nThe \u201che\u201d is always lowercase.<\/p>\n

Some folks sing a Bach cantata,
\nLutherans get Christmas trees,
\nAtheist songs add up to nada,
\nBut they do have Sundays free.<\/p>\n

Pentecostalists sing they sing to heaven,
\nCoptics have the books of scrolls,
\nNumerologists can count to seven,
\nAtheists have rock and roll.<\/p>\n

For Atheists,
\nThere\u2019s no good news,
\nThey\u2019ll never sing a song of Faith.<\/p>\n

In their songs,
\nThey have a rule,
\nThe \u201che\u201d is always lowercase.
\nThe \u201che\u201d is always lowercase.<\/p>\n

Catholics dress up for Mass,
\nAnd listen to, Gregorian chants.<\/p>\n

Atheists just take a pass,
\nWatch football in their underpants.
\nWatch football in their underpants.<\/p>\n

Atheists, Atheists, Atheists,
\nDon\u2019t have no songs!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks, Jules<\/a>. And thanks to Pacificvs<\/a> (Adrian Covert) for the lyrics! (Also see John Kinney’s comment<\/a> on the Pacificvs post, which stitches together a more complete version of the lyrics from several different performances he found online.)<\/em><\/p>\n

______________________________<\/p>\n

* …and not only Mac Davis and friends<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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