From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!seismo!hao!menlo70!sytek!zehntel!tektronix!tekmdp!dadla!dadla-a!steve
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Title: Yet another strange poem...
Article-I.D.: dadla-a.276
Posted: Thu Dec 16 12:19:31 1982
Received: Mon Dec 20 01:57:46 1982


I learned this from my grandmother, the daughter of a
hell-fire-and-brimstone Methodist minister, who apparently thought
it was hilarious:

While the organ peeled potatoes,
   Lard was rendered by the choir,
And the sexton rang the dishrag,
   Someone set the church on fire!

"Holy Smokes" the preacher shouted,
   In his rush he lost his hair,
Now his head resembles heaven,
   For there is no parting there.

There was a song that went along with it so you could sing it.