Saturday, 15 May 2010

Song for the Unconverted

SONG FOR THE UNCONVERTED
Everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

You only have to do good deeds
supplying others' needs

Everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

The man in the shop who sells us soap
will no more in the darkness grope

Everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

All good children say your prayers
when you have gone up the stairs

Everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

You soldiers on the battlefield
don't buy a ticket - there is no need

Everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

You don't even have to be a Christian
just be a good man or good woman

Everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

As long as you repent in
the end, don't worry about sin

Everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!
Everyone's going to heaven

If everyone's going to heaven
Sing Hallelujah! Sing Hallelujah!
I want to go to Hell!

© Gerald England

Composed: Glasgow 6th April 1966

Publication
1966 POETIC SEQUENCE FOR FIVE VOICES (Glasgow, St John's)

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