People Look East (and Priest Look West)
  • contemporaryworship92
    Posts: 259
    People Look East (and Priest Look West)

    Parody of “People Look East”

    Verse 1
    People look East, and priest look West
    Versus Populum is the best
    Come let us gather at the table
    Haugen will tell us that all are able
    People look East, and priest look West
    Versus Populum is the best

    Verse 2
    Dancers be glad and take the air
    Jump and twirl if you dare
    Give of your strength for us to nourish
    End your performance with a flourish
    People look East, and priest look West
    Versus Populum is the best

    Verse 3
    To make what we have longed to build
    The collection must be filled
    We will produce with our creation
    Full active conscious participation
    People look East, and priest look West
    Versus Populum is the best

    Verse 4
    Now we can watch the priest say Mass
    No more looking at his ass
    Here we are gathered all together
    With the table at the center
    People look East, and priest look West
    Versus Populum is the best

    Verse 5
    Cantors announce with shouts of praise
    Folk and rock will cure our malaise
    Singing a new church into being
    Worship God with heart and feeling
    People look East, and priest look West
    Versus Populum is the best
    Thanked by 3MarkB Jeffrey Quick CHGiffen
  • francis
    Posts: 10,825
    That is a stitch

    Full active... love singing that line in particular...
    Thanked by 1contemporaryworship92
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,890
    v4. "cracking" up.
    Thanked by 2Carol CHGiffen
  • Carol
    Posts: 856
    Thanks for the laughs! The actual words always seem a little like Martha Stewart instructions for decorating your home for Christmas, but I love the tune.
  • francis
    Posts: 10,825
    Hymn tune name: MARTHAJAILBIRD
  • Nathan_the_Organist
    Posts: 440
    I like it. My pastor came up with something similar. His first line was "People look east except the priest."
    Thanked by 2Carol CHGiffen
  • Carol
    Posts: 856
    We still need a ? key.

    You actually got me to Google Marthajailbird, Francis. What does this mean, please.

  • Liam
    Posts: 5,093
    Key: C flat minor?
    Thanked by 1hilluminar
  • francis
    Posts: 10,825
    @carol
    Just a spin on your suggestion of martha (And since she lived in jail for a while I thought That would be a cute little addition)
  • Carol
    Posts: 856
    @francis
    How silly of me not to get that! Thank you. Now I must go "trim the hearth and set my table."

  • Carol
    Posts: 856
    @Liam
    In the past I have suggested a ? (Huh?) key to use in the same way as the thank button to use when you don't understand what a person has posted.
    Thanked by 1Liam
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