Intro
[Verse 1]
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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
[Verse 2]
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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
[Verse 3]
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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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F# born reformer, cross and gifted
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He scolded mankind, sterner than Swift did
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St Jerome, the Thunderer
[Bridge]
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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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[Verse 4]
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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
[Verse 5]
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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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[Verse 6]
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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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[Bridge]
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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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(Repeat 1st Verse)
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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
[Outro]
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