Twelve new reforms,
Eleven cricket-players,
Remember, the laws may be broken after appropriate accompaniment by a priest.
Ten new commandments,
Nine cardinal advisers,
Eight tips for family life,
Seven more saints,
Six new beatitudes,
All right, how many could you remember, even vaguely?
Five du-bi-a!
Four saved cardinals,
Three weird ones,
Popies: like groupies, but infatuated with a pope.
Two dreadful synods,
And a pope stuck up a gum tree.
A gum tree (pope not shown).
I wish you had included a recording of the Eccles family singing this updated carol!
ReplyDeleteWishing you every Christmas blessing.
Blimey...has the Pope has moved down under?Well as long as he is up a gum tree carolling with the kookaburras and not up polluted creek that's OK.Same sex marriage and euthanasia ,as yet,are not legal in Australia. I hope this will not present a problem.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas Eccles!
Strooth !!!
DeleteIf "you know who" has "Gone Bush", and moved down into God's Country, then it's only right that we give the big fella a right Aussie welcome.
OK. ALL TOGETHER, NOW.
"Waltzing Matilda".
Available on YouTube at
https://youtu.be/58vujCL2dJI
"CARMEN VAGABUNDUM"
(WALTZING MATILDA).
(T.W.Melluish)
[To be sung to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda"]
Tendit in fusis amnis erro lacubus
grato sub tegmine myrteti,
cecinitque tuens dum fervet igne caccabus
"quis comes ambiclitella mihi?"
Chorus:
Ambiclitella, ambiclitella,
tu comes ambiclitella mihi
cecinitque tuens
dum fervet igne caccabus
"tu comes ambiclitella mihi"
Venit ovicula - vult sorbitiunculam,
corripit erro, exsultans vi,
et in peram ut condit, canit cantiunculam:
"tu comes ambiclitella mihi?
Chorus:
Ambiclitella, ambiclitella,
tu comes ambiclitella mihi
et in peram ut condit,
canit cantiunculam:
"tu comes ambiclitella mihi"
Venit colonus, equitans agricola;
hunc comitantur tres viri.
"cuius in pera latet haec ovicula?"
tu comes ambiclitella mihi!"
Chorus:
Ambiclitella, ambiclitella,
tu comes ambiclitella mihi
"cuius in pera
latet haec ovicula?"
"tu comes ambiclitella mihi!"
Praeceps sed erro ruit in voraginem,
se boat vivum nolle capi.
lacubusque canentem audias imaginem:
"tu comes ambiclitella mihi"
Chorus:
Ambiclitella, ambiclitella,
quis comes ambiclitella mihi?
lacubusque canentem
audias imaginem:
"quis comes ambiclitella mihi?"
THE END.
Lyrics kindly supplied by Matthaeus,
at SUB UMBRA ALARUM SUARUM
Thanks, and a happy and blessed (even if possibly rigid) Christmas to all readers.
ReplyDeleteMay all your days be rigid and bright!
ReplyDeleteI predict that 'Popies' may soon enter Traddie Catholic blog vocabulary. i hope so! Happy and a Holy Christmas to you Eccles, and thank you for keeping us sane. Chloe
ReplyDeleteAn early Christmas prezzy by way of a frightfully witty blog post from a saved person! Thank you dear Eccles and wishing you a very Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteBlessed is Eccles, even when in the spirit of conviviality he eats his double-barrelled cousins the Mince-Pies.
ReplyDeleteHappy Rigid Christmas!
In my rigidity (although it's sincere...& almost warm)I wish you and your readers a blessed Christmas from across the big pond.
ReplyDeleteYou keep me sane, Eccles.
ReplyDeleteA Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.
Neo-Pelagian Christmas wishes to you, goodman Eccles, and many of them.
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