Dion – The Thunderer (Guitar)

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God's angry man, His crotchety scholar

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Was Saint Jerome, The great name-caller

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Who cared not a dime for laws of libel

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And in his spare time he translated the Bible

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St Jerome, the Thunderer

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Quick to disparage all joys but learning

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Jerome thought marriage was better than burning

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But did'nt like womans painted cheeks;

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He did'nt like Romans and he did'nt like Greeks

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St Jerome, the Thunderer

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Hated pagens for their pagen ways

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Yet doted on Cicero all of his days

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A born reformer, cross and gifted

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He scolded mankind, sterner than Swift did

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St Jerome, the Thunderer

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But he swelled men's minds with Godly leaven,

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It takes all kinds to make a heaven

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Worked to save the World from the heathen

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Fled to a cave for peace to breathe in

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Promptly wherewith for miles around

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He filled the air with fury and sound

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St Jerome the Thunderer

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In a mighty prose for almighty ends,

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He thrust at his foes, and quarrelled with his friends

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And served his Master, Though with complaint,

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He wasn't a plaster sort of Saint

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St Jerome the Thunderer

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Can't get through life with just being nice

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Ignorance of scripture is ignorance of Christ

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Love without truth is just sentimental

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Truth without love is sterile

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St Jerome the Thunderer

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But he swelled men's minds with Godly leaven,

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It takes all kinds to make a heaven

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God's angry man, His crotchety scholar

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Was Saint Jerome, The great name-caller

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Who cared not a dime for laws of libel

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And in his spare time he translated the Bible

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St Jerome the Thunderer