Dueling Rhyme

Each one twangs a different sound,,, Depending on the master,,, All having the same shape, round,,, Teachings often differ with the Pastor.

Dueling Rhyme
Lines #1 Lyrics sung original by Joan Osborne
Lines #2 Verse typed by Arley Steinhour 042015

1 If God had a name, what would it be,
2 It's in His 'Alef' words, and sets us free,

1 And would you call it to His Face,
2 We must, or not be in the race.

1 If you were face with Him in all His Glory,
2 I'd fall on my face, knowing the 'Rest of the Story.'

1 What would you ask if you had just one question?
2 'How can you Love me, when I've sinned beyond mention?'

1 If God had a face what would it look like?
2 However we see Him, but not as a shrike.

1 And would you want to see?
2 Only if He wills it to be.

1 If seeing meant that you would have to believe
2 Or choose 'not,' and for eternity, selfward bereave.

1 In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the Saints And all the Prophets
2 Only if you want to be where all is Joy, and nobody frets.

1 And yeah, yeah God is great,
2 A statement, few can ever berate.

1 Yeah, yeah God is good
2 Simply because He's not made of Wood.

1 What if God was one of us?
2 You mean the kind who'd sin and cuss?

1 Just a slob like one of us,
2 Like an Hernia, without a truss?

1 Just a stranger on the bus
2 We'd keep him a stranger, just like us.

1 Trying to make His way home,
2 All pent-up, with no Shalom.

1 Trying to make His way home,
2 Even St. Peters Basilica, Rome.

1 Back up to Heaven all alone,
2 Where there isn't even a telephone.

1 Nobody callin' on the phone,
2 Phone isn't there, He's all alone.

1 Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome
2 Who's praying under St. Peter's Dome.

1 Yeah, yeah God is great,
2 Yes, great words to state.

Yeah, yeah God is good,
At Tav, He's still not made of wood.

AMEN