The Lords Prayer - contemporised

[AnOther]

BROWN IS MY SHEPHERD, I SHALL NOT WORK.
HE LEADETH ME BESIDE STILL FACTORIES.
HE RESTORETH MY FAITH IN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.
HE GUIDETH ME TO THE PATH OF UNEMPLOYMENT.
YEA, THOUGH I WAIT FOR MY DOLE,
I OWN THE BANK THAT REFUSES ME.
BROWN HAS ANNOINTED MY INCOME WITH TAXES,
MY EXPENSES RUNNETH OVER MY INCOME,
SURELY, POVERTY AND HARD LIVING WILL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF HIS TERM.
FROM HENCE FORTH, WE WILL LIVE ALL THE DAYS
OF OUR LIVES IN A RENTED HOME WITH AN OVERSEAS LANDLORD.
I AM GLAD I AM BRITISH, I AM GLAD THAT I AM FREE.
BUT I WISH I WERE A DOG - AND BROWN WERE A TREE.

[:D][:D][:D]

[Kitty]

Just a minor point. It is not the Lord's Prayer but loosely based on Psalm 23....

Signed - - - Pedants' Corner

[AnOther]

I'll suitably chastise my OH who sent it to me although, like me, she is atheist agnostic plus whatever other sort of nondenominational disbeliever there is [:D]

 

[Judith]

Probably based on this ......

The Union is my Shepherd

The union is my shepherd, I shall not work,

It maketh me to lie down on the job.

It leadeth me beside the still factories,

It restoreth my insurance benefits.

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of unemployment,

I will fear no recriminations, for the union is with me.

Its restrictive practices and shop stewards comfort me.

It prepareth a works committee before me in the presence of my employer.

It annointeth my hand with pay rises.

My bank balance runneth over.

Surely such never-never payments and union dues,

Shall follow me all the days of my life,

And I will dwell in a council flat for ever.

Written and published by British Minister Rev. Norman Baldock in his local parish newspaper 1963. This had wide circulation.

I've had this in my book of poetry snippets for years, but just found this on the web:)

PS I've just been re-watching Andrew Marr's history of modern Britain - and this was so apposite for the 60s (and 70s)