Criticism and commentary on southern gospel music and culture
As per David Bruce Murray’s suggestion, a contest.
You should run a contest for the “best” song lyric containing the lines “Jesus Got ‘Er Done” and “Osama Bin Laden.”
Well then, ok. Consider the contest on. Give me your best worst shot at lyrics using “Jesus Got R Dun” or “Osama Bin Laden.” Special consideration for both in one.
Email this PostOsama Bin Laden
could re-ceive his pardon
The victr’y has been won
cause Jesus Got R done
LOL!
sad thing is someone may actually read some of these lyrics and say…”Hmmmm….”
I’m very interested to see how this turns out.
-ME
Jesus Got R Dun, defeated death and the grave
Jesus Got R Dun, to sin I’m no longer a slave
Now satan and sin lie rotten
Just like Osama Bin Laden
We have the victory because Jesus Got R Dun
Jesus Got R Dun
He is God’s only son
He died for rednecks, hippies, and bums
Yea, Jesus Got R Dun
Two things we’ve not forgotton
One is Osama Bin Laden
and the other is that Jesus Got R Dun
JESUS GOT R DUN
By Edie Dufresne
(Key of C - 3/4 time)
Verse One:
You can try to hide
like Osama bin Laden
up in an old desert cave
but God sees all things
and he’s not forgotten
how desperate you are to be saved.
Verse Two:
And you may have a gun
just like Ol’ Dick Cheney
shooting your friends in the face
but God understands
how life can get zany
that’s why he offers us grace.
(Chorus)
We all were sinners
we all were lost
but all of that changed
on the old rugged cross
For all us sinners
God sent his son
And there on Mt. Calvary
Jesus got r dun.
Verse Two:
You may be at war
without a good reason
just like ole George W. Bush
but that’s when God sees
our sins and our treasons
and gives us a kick in the tush.
(Sing Chorus Again)
jesus got r dun
now we don’t have to
jesus got r dun
now we are free
for god so loved the world
he gave his only son
he took on all our sins
yes jesus got r dun
like osama bin laden and elijah
i found myself hiding in a cave
til one day i heard that precious story
and that night i walked the aisle and got saved
now you may be wandering in the desert
searching and praying for some peace
now god is calling you from out of that wilderness
a promised land just beyond that middle east
(In the key of B) afraid
In this world of woe
We have our foes
But don’t you worry
Cause Jesus Got R Done!
In this life there are three things I fear
Especially in the election year
So what are the three that scare me the most
That strike fear in hearts from coast to coast
Osama, Obama and Chelsey Clinton’s Momma!
So if you’ve ben laden down with fear
Git in yer chevy and throw it in gear
Pay your taxes so we can make more bombs
And always remember that “Jesus Got R Done!”
© 2007 Charles Brady
With Osama Bin Laden
We all feel downtrodden;
Al Quida keeps ploddin’ along.
But my Mama’s been prayin’
That all of this slayin’
Will end as she sings us her song.
Ohhh, Mama keep singin’ your song;
Sing it all the day long.
The music is waddin’ the shorts of Bin Laden
Ohhh, Mama keep singin’ your song.
Oh my goodness…what can one say about all of the above?
Sounds like chapel service at NASCAR.
Becareful on listing these lyrics. You never know somebody like Jonathan Bond or Rick Hendrix may try to steal them and then promote it at the GMA. Bond may try to push it on the make it or break it program at solid gospel. You may just have a hit song here with them.
This is great stuff. Keep ‘em coming.
For my money, Charles Brady nailed it. I can hear his, “Osama, Obama, and Chelsey Clinton’s Momma” sung to the tune of Tim McGraw’s, “I Like It, I Love It, I Want Some More of It.” And Revpaul comes in a close 2nd because of “waddin’ the shorts of Bin Laden.” There’s some serious talent lurkin’ ’round the blogosphere!
I think is all in very poor taste. And not the good poor taste either…
Practical fellow:
Why do you think it is in poor taste? I think it is just plain funny.
Please President Bush, don’t look so downtrodden,
we all know you’ve tried to find Osama Bin Laden,
but through eternity he can’t hide or run,
you really should remember that Jesus got ‘r
done.
If my lyrics end up embroidered on a cap, I know lived would be changed.
Videoguy wrote:
Sounds like chapel service at NASCAR.
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BEST. LINE. PERIOD.
Rev didn’t use both phrases, but I see he tried to make up for it by invoking Mama. :o)
…which reminded me, Ray Stevens does have an Osama song, and he rhymes it with Mama.
Osama, Yo Mama.
http://www.countrygoldusa.com/osama_yo_mama.asp
It has some choice lines like:
“We got your terror right here, we’re gonna run it up your rear”
and George W. Bush quotes that oft repeated Stevens lyric:
“You in a heap a trouble, boy”
DBM, your original suggestion was to write a lyric using both, but Avery’s contest specifically said “or”. I went with “Osama” because “Got R Dun” just freaks me out. You’re right about one thing though, there ain’t no song like a Mama song!
To the tune of “Plan Of Salvation”:
I must question Jesus on Osama bin Laden
What the heck were you thinkin’ when you made that one?
I want to be there when that judge says I’m guilty
For trademark infringement
For Jesus Got-R-Dun
RE:#13
Marty, you should get in touch with Cledus T. Judd or some other parody-maker! I’d love to hear that one myself! LOL
“Only God could love an Osama
Its something not many could do
Not even my Mama
And when the Victory has been won
Even he will know Jesus Got “er” done
Yes only God could love an Osama”
*copyright Singing Cookes Music
Re: *copyright Singing Cookes Music
Now Bryan, you’re just being bad! [grin]
Ok, this is my first ever post on any blog, but I feel so strongly about this I cannot refrain….I simply think that this thread is very inappropriate. To me any discussion involving our Lord should not be so frivolously conducted. Of course I “get” the point. I just feel very uncomfortable in seeing this irreverent (however unintended it may have been) song title being lampooned in this manner because it only worsens and perpetuates the original offense.
Possibly some are only concerned with the unprofessional title. My main concern is the lack of reverence we show a thrice Holy God.
Phil,
If this thread illuminates what you’ve just said, then it accomplished precisely what I hoped when I made the suggestion.
Now, if we could only get the Christian T-shirt companies to realize how much they’re cheapening the name of our Lord when they rip off every popular secular phrase or advertising slogan, we’d actually be getting somewhere.
Unfortunately, someone, somewhere, is going to buy that “Jesus Got ‘R Done” cap or T-shirt, and as long as that is the case, those companies are going to keep churning them out.
How many of you own a “Lord’s Gym” T-shirt? That was one of the most popular designs when I worked in Christian retail. Unfortunately, I didn’t have control over what was stocked in the T-shirt area (or the “Jesus Junk” bins either).
One of the worst I ever saw was a Budweiser ripoff. It was the same design as the popular beer logo, but the letters had been changed to “budwiseup.” Now, I must confess, I like to have fun with puns sometimes, but that’s just stupid.
I must confess that I had a God’s Gym shirt (before they got slapped with a copyright infringement and had to change it to Lord’s Gym) and others. As a youth it was a way to share faith in I guess a “cool way.”
I do see the point a bit now. I do think that things have gotten considerably worse since those early days. I never saw the BudWiseUp one etc.or some of the others. Although I love puns and although I like taking something of the devils and turning it around, I see the other side. Too often it is just to make a buck and I do understand how one can think it irreverent.
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