The Good Book Chords

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A♯Life is like an ocean voyage and our Fbodies are the ships

CAnd without a moral compass we would Aall be cast aDmdrift Dm/C

 So to A♯keep us on our bearings, the FLord gave us a gift

C7And like most gifts you get, it was a Cbook

 I Fonly read one book, but it's a A♯good book, don't you know

 I C7act the way I act because the Good Book tells me sFo

 If I Fwanna known how F7to D♯be good, it's A♯/Dto the Good Book A♯mthatD I go

 'Cos the C7Good Book is a book and it is Fgood and it's a book

I know the Good Book's good because the Good Book says it's good

I know the Good Book knows it's good because a really good book would

You wouldn't cook without a cookbook and I think it's understood

You can't be good without a Good Book 'cos it's good and it's a book

And it is good for cookin'

DmI tried to read some other books, but I Asoon gave up on that

 The A♯paragraphs ain't numbered and they Fcomplicate the Cfacts

 I Acan't read Harry Potter 'cos they're Dworshipping false gods and that

 And GDumbledore's a poofter and that's Cbad, 'cos it's not good

Morality is written there in simple white and black

I feel sorry for you heathens, got to think about all that

Good is good and evil's bad and goats are good and pigs are crap

You'll find which one is which in the Good Book, 'cos it's good

And it's a book, and it's a book

I had a cat, she gave birth to a litter

The kittens were adorable and they made my family laugh

But as they grew they started misbehavin'

So I drowned the little fuckers in the bath

When the creatures in your care start being menaces

 The Ganswers can be found right there in CGenesis!

 Chapter D6, Verse 5-7!

GSwing your partner by the hand

CHave a baby if you can

DBut if the voices your head

Say to sacrifice your kid

GTo satiate your loving God's

CFetish for dead baby blood

DIt's simple faith, the Book demands

So raise that knife up in your hand!

 BeFfore the Good Book made us good, there was A♯no good way to know

 If a Cthing was good or not that good or kind of touch and Fgo

So God decided he'd give writing allegoric prose a go

And so he wrote a book and it was generally well-received

 The A♯Telegraph said, "This God is remiFniscent of the CNorse."

 The A♯Times said, "Kind of turgid, but I Fliked the bit with Chorses."

 The AMail said, "Lots of massacres, a Dmviolent tour de force.

 If you Gonly read one book this year, then Cthis one is a book

 And it is Dgood, and it's a book!"

Swing your daughter by the hand

But if she gets raped by a man

And refuses then to marry him

Stone her to death!

 If Emyou just close your eyes and block your Bears

 To the acCcumulated knowledge of the Glast two thousand Dyears

 Then Bmorally, guess what? You're off the Emhook

 And thank AChrist you only have to read one Dbook

DmJust because the book's contents

 Were Awritten generations hence

DmBy hairy desert-dwelling gents

ASquatting in their dusty tents

EmJust because what Heaven said

BWas said before they'd leavened bread

EmJust 'cos Jesus couldn't read

BDoesn't mean that we should need

CWhen manipulating human genes

GTo alleviate pain and fight disease

CWhen deciding whether it's wrong or right

GTo help the dyin' let go of life

DOr stop a pregnancy when it's

Just a tiny blastocyst

BThere's no reason why we should take a Emlook

DAt any other Cbook

G/BBut the Good Book

A'Cause it's good

And it's a book

DAnd it's a book

And it's quite good!

GGood is good and G7eviFl's bad

C/EAnd kids get killed when CmGodE gets mad

DAnd you'd better take a good look

 At the GGood Book D G