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Well, you've suffered enough.

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I'll close with one
last shorter song, also

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on a theological theme.

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This was called Song to the
Tune of Somebody Stole My Gal.

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You know that old Dixieland
two beat, jazz tune?

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Anybody here happens to care
for old, moldy fig jazz?

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Why, you probably know it.

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Somebody Stole my Gal, old old
jazz outfits still play it.

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I thought of this
tune when I was

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talking with a poet friend,
WD Snodgrass, who I guess

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was here once upon a time.

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And Snodgrass was teaching
in Detroit at the time.

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And he said that
for some reason,

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a lot of his students in
college were coming to him

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and complaining that
they were taking science

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courses for the first time,
which they found in conflict

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with their religious training.

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I don't know just
what the matter was.

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Maybe they were from
fundamentalist backgrounds

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or I don't know--

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I don't know what.

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Somebody was teaching them
Darwin, but some of them

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were greatly pained
and disturbed.

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And many of them kept
coming to Snodgrass

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and he felt sorry for what
these people were going through.

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He didn't know
what to tell them.

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And finally, he started feeling
sorry for himself and said,

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I'm fed up with all these
people who say, boohoo,

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somebody stole my myths.

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He was paraphrasing them.

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But this line, somebody stole
my myths, rattled around

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in my head.

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And finally, I
realized that it ought

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to go to the tune of Somebody
Stole My Gal like this.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Somebody stole my myths.

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Stole all their gists and piths.

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Somebody pinched
my Juno and Pan.

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Crooked Dionysus and
caused my spiritual crisis.

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Some no good, no account
made my centaur dismount.

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Somebody in a laboratory
coat with test tube

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in hand mixed nitrogen
with glycerin, and poof

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went my promised land.

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Oh, hear me crying.

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Don't much like forever dying.

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Somebody stole my myths.

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Some no good, no account
made my centaur dismount.

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Somebody in a laboratory
coat with test tube in hand

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mixed that nitrogen
together with that glycerin,

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and poof there went
my promised land.

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Oh, hear me crying.

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Don't much like forever dying.

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Somebody stole my myths.

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