This is the latest installment in the Songs of Sacrilege series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a song that is irreverent towards religion, makes fun of religion, pokes fun at sincerely held religious beliefs, or challenges the firmly held religious beliefs of others, please send me an email.
Today’s Song of Sacrilege is Songs of Sacrilege: Hymn 43 by Jethro Tull.
Lyrics
Oh, father high in heaven
Smile down upon your son
Whose busy with his money games
His women and his gun
Oh, Jesus, save me!
And the unsung Western hero
He killed an Indian or three
And then he made his name in Hollywood
To set the white man free
Oh, Jesus, save me!
If Jesus saves, well, He’d better save Himself
From the gory glory seekers who use His name in death
Oh, Jesus, save me!
If Jesus saves, well, He’d better save Himself
From the gory glory seekers who use His name in death
Oh, Jesus, save me!
Well, I saw him in the city
And on the mountains of the moon
His cross was rather bloody
He could hardly roll His stone
Oh, Jesus, save me!
Bruce Gerencser, 67, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 46 years. He and his wife have six grown children and sixteen grandchildren. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. Bruce is now a humanist and an atheist.
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One of my favorite Tull songs.
How deliciously blasphemous the lyrics are! And they’re wrapped in such a catchy tune. 🎶🎶🎶
Indeed 🤣❤️