Tonalité : G minor
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Rehearsing my choir
But there was one other man with whom
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i didn't get along
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The bishop
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Would head down,
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head down to deerport station
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To see what stars on the sil
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ver screen might be seen
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Or broadway stage were all the rage
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With his black leather autograph book
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And his black leather pastoral pumps
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And his pressed black robes
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And his tidy black beard of
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which he was so proud
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And his hat that stuck
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out in a crowd
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But there he'd sit
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At his table at the edgewater hotel
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Wearing his ecclesiastical furs
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And lunching with two giggly and none
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too healthy looking young men
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And in his shirt pocket up close to his heart was
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his autographed picture of robert mitchum
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Which he no doubt used in an impure way
Verse 3
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was at home rehearsing my choir
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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On christmas day
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In the afternoon
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I got a call at home
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The bishop was on the phone
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Wanting the choir to go and sing
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On some channel 44 thing
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And i said "out of the question!
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The rest of the day is
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for their families!"
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And the bishop became furious
All that time singing western music
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Christmas carols, backsliding
And no time to represent the diocese
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But of course he was just upset because
he wanted to be on the show
And he hated women
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And i knew he was angry with me
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But i couldn't worry about it
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I went about my business
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Rehearsing my choir
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Re hearsing my choir
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(Da da da da da da da)
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Again!
(Da da da da da da da)
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Ugh, altos,
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out of tune!
Interlude 2
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(Da da
Verse 8
da da da da da)
That's not good!
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(Da da da da da da da)
That sounds horrible
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Verse 9
Next sunday was my late
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sister's namesday
La la la
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And the bishop was coming that day
to our church to deliver a sermon
Which would give me quite
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a big surprise
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"Decadence in the church!
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Betrayal of our traditions!
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Look up in the shoir loft,
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for instance, the lady in red
Eva!
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I ban her from receiving communion
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And remove her as choir director!"
Verse 12
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I couldn't believe my ears
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And the congregation
couldn't believe theirs
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And my husband was furious when he was told,
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as he wasn't there at the time
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And letters were written and phone
calls were placed
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And the matter was taken up,
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and i was granted an audience
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And i sat there nervous an d frightened
When into the room
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Stepped his eminence
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The archbishop
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Interlude 3
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Verse 14
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They had a strange deliberating process at his initiative
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As it was his prerogative alone
But the hierarch with the tallest hat and longest
beard would stand in the middle
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And the prelates with shorter hat
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s and beards radiated out
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With the archbishop in front of them
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And then they began to intone
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And i was left on the other side of the door,
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alone
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And when they came out, bish
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op nikolaki was sent to San Jose
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