The Sermon

Lyrics

[LAPP, spoken] Reverend Birdsong To avoid further confusion among the flock We should preach on the same, precise, exact subject Every Sunday [BIRDSONG, spoken] By all means, my dear Reverend Lapp Nothing shakes faith like two points of view [LAPP, spoken] I had in mind for next Sunday A sermon on the coming of winter [BIRDSONG, spoken] Ah, the coming of winter Now that's perfectly agreeable [LAPP, spoken] Let's see [BIRDSONG, spoken] Let's see [LAPP & BIRDSONG] The coming of winter The coming of winter (The coming of) The coming of wretched cold (Winter) (Blessed old) Cold winter (Winter) Nights of long, deep featherbed sleep Is a warning And a hot plum porridge in the morning A warning to repent (Rejoice) Repent (Rejoice), repent Repent (Rejoice), repent, repent (Rejoice) Give heed, lest wild storms kill your trees Kill your trees (The merry white) For your sins God will punish you (Snowdrifts) (Nippy breeze) Trees will die (Calling) "Dance, dance, dance, there's wind in the sky" Branches fall So there's good, good firewood for all Let sinners all beware (Be glad) Beware (Be glad), beware Beware (Be glad), beware, beware (Be glad) [LAPP, BIRDSONG, BOTH] Of course, you know (You should know) From Genesis One: Thirty-one (Six: Five) God saw everything that He had made That the wickedness of man was great And behold, it was very good Wickedness (Behold, it was) Wickedness (Very good) And so repent (Rejoice) Repent (Rejoice), repent Repent (Rejoice), repent Ay-men (Ah-men) [LAPP, spoken] I prefer "Ay-men" [BIRDSONG, spoken] Oh, "Ay-men" [LAPP, spoken] Long as we're of one mind about things [BIRDSONG, spoken] So be it [LAPP & BIRDSONG] Ay-men