# Has anybody seen my Lord? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748 "2010-10-11T03:13:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/1 "2010-10-11T03:13:52Z")
\*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? ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/2 "2010-10-11T03:17:03Z")
Jesus Christ Superstar? ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/3 "2010-10-11T03:51:45Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > Jesus Christ Superstar? It’s sort of like [King Herod’s Song](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/jesuschristsuperstar/kingherodssong.htm): > [@](#): > > \*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 ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/4 "2010-10-11T03:55:04Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > > [@koeeoaddi](#): > > > > Jesus Christ Superstar? > > It’s sort of like [King Herod’s Song](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/jesuschristsuperstar/kingherodssong.htm): > > > [@](#): > > > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/5 "2010-10-11T04:05:15Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > It’s sort of like [King Herod’s Song](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/jesuschristsuperstar/kingherodssong.htm): > > 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](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioe27oeNqp0). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/6 "2010-10-11T04:09:28Z")
> [@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.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA) ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/7 "2010-10-11T04:16:11Z")
> [@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.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA) Me too. Your link saved me the need to google for my fix. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/8 "2010-10-11T05:06:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > The tune is from [Has Anybody Seen My Gal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioe27oeNqp0). 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/9 "2010-10-11T17:00:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/10 "2010-10-19T15:09:10Z")
Of course, it’s impossible for it _not_ to be blasphemous given the subject matter. . ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/11 "2010-11-01T05:24:29Z")
_Six foot one, Packs a gun, “Book 'em, Danno, murder one!” Has anybody seen Jack Lord?_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/12 "2010-11-02T02:09:39Z")
Which of course reminds me of… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/l4HS2cJHVlg/hqdefault.jpg "Jack Lord") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4HS2cJHVlg) _Were you there When they crucified Jack Lord? Were you there?_ ‘Seal off the universe, and patch me through to God!’ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anybody-seen-my-lord/556748/13 "2010-11-02T02:29:23Z")
Some people just won’t get it into their heads that there will never be a SISTER ACT 3.