2010. Budapest.<br /><br />P.T.<br /><br />"The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly Sarcastic) Jesus" is a poem by Oliver St. John Gogarty. It was written around Christmas of 1904 and was later published in modified form as "The Ballad of Joking Jesus" in James Joyce's Ulysses.<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song...<br />Paintings: Kondor, Béla.<br />Thank's the CC for the sound effect.<br />The text:<br />The Ballad of Joking Jesus<br /><br />I'm the queerest young fellow that ever you heard.<br />My mother's a jew, my father's a bird.<br />With Joseph the joiner I cannot agree,<br />So here's to disciples and Calvary.<br /><br />If anyone thinks that I amn't divine<br />He'll get no free drinks when I'm making the wine<br />But have to drink water and wish it were plain<br />That I make when the wine becomes water again.<br /><br />Goodbye, now, goodbye. Write down all I said<br />And tell Tom, Dick and Harry I rose from the dead.<br />What's bred in the bone cannot fail me to fly<br />And Olivet's breezy . . . Goodbye, now, Goodbye.
