I'm reading James Joyce's Ulysses again and in the first chapter there's an excerpt
from Oliver St. John Gogarty's poem that Joyce slightly adapted and changed the title:
My mother's a Jew; my father's a Bird
With Joseph the Joiner I cannot agree
So 'Here's to Disciples and Calvary.
'If anyone thinks that I amn't divine,
He gets no free drinks when I'm making the wine
But have to drink water and wish it were plain
That I make when the wine becomes water again.
For the full poem The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty you can look it up on the internet.
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| Oliver St. John Gogarty |
If that's not appropriate he can at least just read the rude bits.
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| 'Ulysses' |
I'm the kindest young fellow that ever was heard.
ReplyDeleteMy mother's a Jew; my father's of David
With Joseph the Joiner I spent most my life
So 'Here's to Disciples and St Faustina.
'If anyone thinks that I amn't divine,
He gets no communion that is so divine
But has to drink water again and again
And live a life amongst the lost and profane.'
Nice try son but I prefer the original.*
ReplyDeleteIt won't be the first time that a Catholic has tried to change or suppress something that's been said, written, painted etc about the Catholic Church.
Just ask Martin Luther, Gallileo, Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Simone de Beauvoir, Nicolas Malebranche, Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Nikos Kazantzakis, Emanuel Swedenborg, Baruch Spinoza, Desiderius Erasmus, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, John Milton, John Locke, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, and Hugo Grotius Anne Askew,[55] Olympia Fulvia Morata, Ursula of Munsterberg, Veronica Franco, and Paola Antonia Negri, Charles Darwin, Richard Prowse, The Monty Python crew and many others.