1 We play at church, one long charade,
a trite religious game,
and all the time the world goes by,
Christ dies again in vain.
2 The down and out wish for our tithes,
the homeless plead and pray,
while we enact our sullen rite,
our crass religious play.
3 We watch defenceless ones denied,
the ones we should defend,
we keep the best place for ourselves,
self-righteous to the end.
Verses 4 -5 follow
CM
Tune: AULD LANG SYNE
(with this tune verses 1 & 3 are sung to the verse and
verses 2, 4 & 5 to the chorus i.e., the chorus is used twice at the end)
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
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