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From: oz@rlgvax.UUCP (THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Tom Lehrer II
Message-ID: <1362@rlgvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Nov-83 19:54:47 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov  6 19:54:47 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Nov-83 04:33:12 EST
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I understand that some other people had the blatant audacity to also post
"Send the Marines" to the net.  As I have a reputation to maintain, (what
kind of reputation I have, is left up to the individual reader), I am now
posting what as probably the MOST famous Tom Lehrer song, as he said on the
album "It's called... the Vatican Rag:"

First you get down on your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

Do whatever steps you want if
You have cleared them with te Pontiff,
Ev'rybody say his own
Kyrie eleison,
Donin' the Vatican Rag.

Get in line in that processional,
Step into that small confessional,
There the guy who's got religion'll
Tell you if your sins' original.
If it is, try playin' it safer,
Drink the wine and chew the wafer,
Two, four, six eight,
Time to transubstantiate!

So get down upon your knees,
Fiddle with your rosaries,
Bow your head with great respect,
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect!

Make a cross on your abdomen,
When in Rome do like a Roman,
Ave Maria,
Gee, it's good to see ya,
Gettin' ecstatic an' sorta dramatic an'
Doin' the Vatican
Rag!

                          Flames will be ignored,

                                     OZ
                              seismo!rlgvax!oz