Anthem for Sunday December 20, 2009
Fourth Sunday in Advent
JOSEPH AND THE ANGELS
(words and music by Charles Turner and Nancy Rexford)
for a pdf of the score (including revisions made after October 29 rehearsal)
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for mp3 file of song, CLICK HERE
(sorry, it's a rather crude recording, but OK to practice with)
Angels: Joseph!
Joseph: Snoring deep.
Angels: Joseph!
Joseph: Tryin’ to sleep.
Angels: Joseph! You need to hear! Joseph!
Joseph: Sorry, deaf in that ear!
Angels: Joseph! We gotta bone to pick!
Joseph: You wanna complain, OK, but don’t expect me to fix it.Angels: Joseph!
Joseph: Just go away.
Angels: Joseph!
Joseph: I’m closed today!
Angels: Joseph! We know you care! Joseph!
Joseph: I’ve got enough to bear right now.
Angels: Joseph! That girl is really a gem!
So marry her and carry her to Bethlehem.Joseph: Mary, she’s got inside of my heart!
Mary, she’s gonna tear me apart.
Mary, it’s awful hard to believe
Mary would go and make such a fool of me.Angels: Joseph, you’ve got it wrong.
Joseph, just play along.
Joseph, it’s a whole new game!
Joseph: Sorry, she can’t make a claim on me!
Angels: Joseph, get over that fear!
Joseph: She got herself in trouble and the rules are clear.
Joseph: She’s trouble, that girl!
Angels: Forget about rules—
Joseph: She’s trouble, that girl!
Angels: And dare be a fool for love!
Joseph: That baby . . .
Angels: He is the son of God!
Joseph: That baby . . .
Angels: Is gonna to change the world!
So Joseph, you really shouldn’t make the baby wait!
He needs a father, so step up to the plate!Joseph: Babies! But I know nothing about them!
Angels: Maybe it’s time to start finding out!.
Joseph: Babies! The notion’s kind of appealing.
Angels: Finally, I think we got us a deal.Angels: Sing Alleluia, my friends.
Joseph: Surprising the dreams God sends.
Angels: Hey there, let the heavens be glad.
Jesus has got a new Dad today!
Angels: Glory, hallelujah, this man has discovered love!
Joseph: Glory, hallelujah, this man has discovered love!
Angels: He found it in a dream of angels from above.
Joseph: I found it in a dream of angels from above.
Angels: A love so perfect, it cast out all his fear.
Joseph: A love so perfect it cast out all my fear.
Angels: Mary had a baby . . .
Joseph: And the baby had a father who loved him very dear.
Copyright © 2009 by Charles Turner and Nancy Rexford
