Clang clang clang went the
trolley
hats off to the destabilising
tendency of evangelism were crawlin in it
in the early 19th century Thomas
Green Fessendem satirised it
A stupid wretch, who cannot read,
(A very likely thing indeed)
Receives from Heaven a calling;
He leaves his plough, he drops
his hoe,
Gets on his meeting clothes, and
lo,
Sets up the trade of bawling.
likewise Tocqueville observed
preachers seem equally concerned
with “eternal felicity in the next world” and “prosperity in this.”
that spinning trying to throw
America off its modern axis is the Founding Fathers in their graves the rationalist secularism they imagined has rotted blowflies are laying eggs maggots are emerging
might be an astute observation
he didnt know a soul who ever laid eyes on a
maggot that wasnt white
1314, Reggae Friday, 28 5.
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Judy Garland The Trolley Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwP6kNIDg30
might
have misheard it (3:09 minute-mark): So you love him so you couldnt even pee