SINGER: Tom Lehrer

SONG: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 what every steps you want if
you have cleared them with the pontiff
everybody say his own kyrie eleison
doin' 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 sin's 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 and sorta dramatic and
doin' the vatican rag