AWAY IN A MANGER - Revised to Reflect Current Events | Don Caron

SUBSCRIBE TO BE NOTIFIED WHEN WE RELEASE A NEW VIDEO - Be sure to click the little bell to activate the notification. To help keep Parody Project alive and functioning, please visit Parody Project Store: To become a Patron of Parody Project please visit our Patreon Page: Once in a while it’s a good idea to point out hypocrisy, otherwise it becomes the norm and begins to seem acceptable. You can quote me on that. LYRICS by Don Caron Away in a manger no crib for his bed and no crib is coming The congress has said No comfort for poor people not any more We’ll teach ’em a lesson by slamming the door The stars in the sky Look down where He lay His parents are lazy His dad might be gay Well they are a burden and we’ve had enough we’re cutting off access to all that free stuff That baby grew up and he taught peace and love There are many believers in Congress . . . sort of They claim to embrace the example he taught To witness their actions We think they do not Away in a manger no crib for his bed with Congress concerned “Merry Christmas“ was dead they focused on that and ignored all the rest devising new ways to oppress the oppressed Away in a manger is where he must stay or else his teachings might get in their way There’s money to grub and there ‘re wars to sustain That they believe in their faith they just feign To them we now say you are not what you claim It’s apparent that profit is your only aim Whatever you say and whatever you do We don’t want to hear crap about Christmas from you ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SONG “Away in a Manger“ is a Christmas carol first published in the late nineteenth century and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain, it is one of the most popular carols; a 1996 Gallup Poll ranked it joint second. Although it was long claimed to be the work of German religious reformer Martin Luther, the carol is now thought to be wholly American in origin. The two most common musical settings are by William J. Kirkpatrick (1895) and James Ramsey Murray (1887). The origin of the words is obscure. An early appearance was on 2 March 1882, in the “Childrens’ Corner“ section of the anti-Masonic journal The Christian Cynosure. Under the heading “Luther’s Cradle Song“, an anonymous author contributed the first two verses, writing: The following hymn, composed by Martin Luther for his children, is still sung by many of the German mothers to their little ones. A near-identical article appeared in the November 1883 issue of The Sailors’ Magazine and Seamen’s Friend. Another early version was published in Little Pilgrim Songs, a book of Christian music for young children, whose preface is dated 10 November 1883. Little Pilgrim Songs includes a similar claim that the song was written “by Martin Luther for his own children“. An article in the May 1884 issue of The Myrtle, a periodical of the Universalist Publishing House in Boston, also included the carol, stating: Martin Luther, the great German reformer, who was born four hundred years ago the 10th of next November, composed the following hymn for his children; and it is still sung by many German mothers to their little ones. The great majority of early publications ascribe the words to German Protestant reformer Martin Luther. Many go so far as to title the carol “Luther’s Cradle Song“ or “Luther’s Cradle Hymn“, to describe the English words as having been translated from Luther, or to speak of its alleged popularity in Germany. The claim of Luther’s authorship continued to be made well into the 20th century, but it is now rejected as spurious for the following reasons: No text in Luther’s known writings corresponds to the carol. No German text for the carol has been found from earlier than 1934, more than 50 years after the first English publication. That German text reads awkwardly, and appears to be a result of a translation from the English original. The unadorned narrative style of the carol is atypical of Luther, who, Hill states, “could never throw off his role of educator and doctrinarian.“ When some earlier 19th-century sources do mention a carol written by Luther for his son Hans, they are referring to a different text: “Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her“. Richard Hill, in a comprehensive study of the carol written in 1945, suggested that “Away in a Manger“ might have originated in “a little play for children to act or a story about Luther celebrating Christmas with his children“, likely connected with the 400th anniversary of the reformer’s birth in 1883. All four sources include almost-identical text of the first two verses, with no music. Little Pilgrim Songs and The Myrtle both suggest the melody of Home! Sweet Home![10]