Has anybody seen my Lord?

[Johnny_L.A]

*Five foot nine, so divine
Changes water into wine
Has anybody seen my Lord?

Walks so tall, walks so cool
He walked across my swimmin’ pool
Has anybody seen my Lord?

My name is Jesus, the son of God
I came from Heaven just to save your bod
My mother’s Mary, my father’s Joe
So hello, hello, hello-o-o!*

Sounds like something Allan Sherman would have sung, but he’d already done Six-Foot-Two, Solid Blue. Does anyone know where this song came from?

[koeeoaddi]

Jesus Christ Superstar?

[postcards]

@koeeoaddi

Jesus Christ Superstar?

It’s sort of like King Herod’s Song:

*So, you are the Christ, you’re the great Jesus Christ.

Prove to me that you’re divine; change my water into wine.

That’s all you need do, then I’ll know it’s all true.

Come on, King of the Jews.*

I always see this done as a high-stepping song-and-dance number, with a straw hat and a cane

[appleciders]

@postcards

@koeeoaddi

Jesus Christ Superstar?

It’s sort of like King Herod’s Song:

*So, you are the Christ, you’re the great Jesus Christ.

Prove to me that you’re divine; change my water into wine.

That’s all you need do, then I’ll know it’s all true.

Come on, King of the Jews.*

I always see this done as a high-stepping song-and-dance number, with a straw hat and a cane

I’ve seen it done by a flaming gay man, actually over seven feet tall, wearing a red pleather suit with extravagant glitter on both the suit and his face. Nothing is more derisive or mocking than that. Plus, I hear he got to keep the costume after the show was over, because no one foresaw a need to store a red pleather suit that big.

[Johnny_L.A]

@postcards

It’s sort of like King Herod’s Song:

I always see this done as a high-stepping song-and-dance number, with a straw hat and a cane

Not that. The tune is from Has Anybody Seen My Gal. At least the first two verses. The last one is different, and does conjure a song-and-dance man with a straw had and a cane. The tune for that bit is one that you’d know right away, but I don’t know the name of it.

[Tanbarkie]

@Johnny_L.A

*Five foot nine, so divine
Changes water into wine

Walks so tall, walks so cool
He walked across my swimmin’ pool*

All that (especially the “so divine” bit) makes me think of is this.

[CaveMike]

@Tanbarkie

@Johnny_L.A

*Five foot nine, so divine
Changes water into wine

Walks so tall, walks so cool
He walked across my swimmin’ pool*

All that (especially the “so divine” bit) makes me think of is this.

Me too. Your link saved me the need to google for my fix.

[Gary_T]

@Johnny_L.A

The tune is from Has Anybody Seen My Gal. At least the first two verses. The last one is different…

It’s the bridge. Listen to the whole song and you’ll hear where it fits.

[Sam_A.Robrin]

The “Hello, hello” part (which I always found an unfunny, poorly rhymed, overfilled blasphemy-for-the-sake-of-blasphemy sort of ditty, myself) has also been sung to a Sousa march that I can’t name. It was popular with “filk” singers in the 1980s.

[Johnny_L.A]

Of course, it’s impossible for it not to be blasphemous given the subject matter.

.

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

Six foot one,
Packs a gun,
“Book 'em, Danno, murder one!”
Has anybody seen Jack Lord?

[Johnny_L.A]

Which of course reminds me of…

Jack Lord

Were you there
When they crucified Jack Lord?
Were you there?

‘Seal off the universe, and patch me through to God!’

[Sampiro]

Some people just won’t get it into their heads that there will never be a SISTER ACT 3.