SINGER: The Devotions

SONG:Rip Van Winkle

Rip van winklethe devotionsnote: this song has a "background" song played with the main song and music, making it unusually difficult to make out the words. here is my attempt:intro: sound of rolling bowling ball and falling pins. "wow-wee a strike!"background: boom-boom, boom boom-a-boom-boom boom-boom, boom boom-a-boom-boom rip van winkle, rip van winkle sleep, sleep, sleep rip van winkle, rip van winkle sleep, sleep, sleephe fell asleep in the woods one day(??-unclear) lost his waythat night he was (??-unclear) storynothing (??-unclear) ever joythose little men bowling in his dreamhe left his nagging wife now(slept for 20 years)didn't bother to wake up(he grew a long white beard)this is how the story goes(listen my children and you will hear)he fell asleep in the woods one day(??-unclear) lost his waythat night he was (??-unclear) storynothing (??-unclear) ever joythose little men bowling in his dreamzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz (snoring)(rolling ball, pins falling, "wow-wee!")note: (??-unclear) means "this line is so badlygarbled that i can't even make a wild guess as to what the heck it'ssupposed to be"tmazanec1@juno.com or tom mazanec to humans