The following note appeared on one of the chat networks to which I belong during the discussions on this text. The notes which accompanied the hymn text were as funny as the text so I have included them too. Enjoy!
Sil
"Here's the whole thing. My dad would ALWAYS do this at church concert parties when we had such a thing. He would giggle the whole way through... He thaid it, never thung it.
(Tune: "O Worship the Lord"; thung with a lithp. )
- Goliath of Gath
With his helmet of brath,
One day he that down
Upon the green grath;
Along came young David,
A thervant of Thaul,
And thaid "I will thmite thee
Although I am thmall".So David nipped down
To the thide of the brook,
And from the thtill waterth
Thix thmall thtoneth he took;
He thkilfully threw them
Right high in the thky,
And got poor Goliath
Right over the eye.Goliath fell down
In a thwoon on the thward,
Young David nipped up
And thwiped hith great thword;
He lifted hith helmet
And chopped off hith head,
And all Ithrael thouted
"Goliath ith dead".
"I don't know who wrote it. God bless.
"(P.S. Is it offensive to lispers? Well I had a lisp when I was little and still found it funny. My parents (who didn't know when I was born that I would have a lisp) named me Lythan Elisabeth Rees. It took years of orthodentistry to be able to say it. Marrying helped!)"
Lythan Nevard
(Comments to her at revnev@NEVARD.FREESERVE.CO.UK)
Minister in Romford UK, currently on Thabbatical.