Billy Sunday - The Blues By The Jews
1979 Brighton Dec. 15
(1979 Birmingham, Dec. 8 ; Brighton Dec. 15 (soundcheck); Melbourne 1980 Mar. 8)
{ crowd requests } What was that?
{ greensleeves } Greensleeves? ..
Well I haven't sung that..
I haven't sung that for about 300 years.
I used to sing that when I was a troubadour in the south of France
,
I was, ...- my name was Artaud.
I used to walk on those dusty roads singing greensleeves.
I haven't sung that ... for long ...
Please, also, don't ask me for "Don't Pass Me By",
because I only ever did that once.
But listen, there is this,
{audience requests, and "be quiet" }
there's a curious song, there's a curious song,
but i have to consult my manuscripsts...
..here they are.
This is a curious song that I wrote it, go, .. 3 or 4, -
... - no it must be about a thousand years ago.
But I haven't learned the words yet.
I wrote it on the road.
Its kind of irreverent.
But you're not very religious in this part of the country anyways, so,
- I doubt if it will offend anybody.
Anyways you could, -
- this is, -
"The Blues By The Jews."
Here it is : ---
The Blues By The Jews - LC
My name is Billy Sunday.
I speak in the name of G-d.
They call me Billy Sunday.
I speak in the name of G-d.
And G-d is always angry, -
Just in case you think he's not.
He's angry at your body
For reasons that are his.
He doesn't like your body
Acording to reasons that are only his.
I'd like you to know he's very, very, angry, -
But that's just the way he is.
He's angry at the spirit
That has turned away from him.
He is angry at the spirit
That has turned away from him.
If he ever get his his hands on it
He's gonna tear it limb from limb.
They call me Billy Sunday.
And I speak in the name of G-d.
They call me Billy Sunday.
I speak in the name of G-d.
And G-d is always angry,
Just in case you think he's not.
He's angry at the universe.
It drives him up the wall.
I can say for a fact he's not pleased with his universe.
It drives him up the wall.
He's sorry that he ever thought of you and me -
At all.
He's angry when you're dying.
And he's angry when you're dead.
(and you're always one or the other)
He's angry when you're dying.
He's angry when you're dead.
And he's furious at me
For everything i've ever said.
If you're feel his anger some night,
Let's say in a motel room at 3a.m,
If you feel his hostile anger in your hotel room,
Let's say it's 3 a.m,
It turns out that he's still very angry
That you took so long to be afraid of him.
They call me Billy Sunday.
I speak in the name of G-d.
They call me Billy Sunday.
And I speak in the name of G-d.
I've come here to tell you that G-d is always angry,
Just in case you think he's not.
{ fade-out, applause, fade-in, laughter }
If you fall asleep some night -
Which everybody does,
If you have the nerve to go to sleep one tired night,
Which most everybody does,
And you happen to have some silly dream,
To Him it's very serious.
And if some lonely night you ask yourself -
Where all the pretty girls have gone,
Some night you're gonna ask yourself
Where, where, where, where have all those pretty girls gone?
Then he blows away the little scraps of papper
That they write their names and numbers on.
Then you find that you get down on your knees
And you want to renounce
for all time
a woman's
sweet caress.
You have some vocation that
Makes you kneel down and renounce for eternity a
woman's
sweet caress.
Then he causes you to touch yourself
As soon as you undress.
They call me Billy Sunday,
I speak in the name of G-d.
Ah they call me Billy Sunday.
An I speak in the name of G-d.
And G-d is always angry
Just in case you think he's not.
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