Hi all...

Earlier this week, Jeff Miller at The Curt Jester wrote a post in which he shared a parody song for "American Woman" by The Guess Who, but in this case it was called "Samaritan Woman." 

At the end of the post, he said that he wished that someone like me to come along and write a better parody.

I looked long and hard at the song, and to be honest, I didn't think the song was workable... I couldn't imagine my Savior singing like Randy Bachman or Burton Commings.  It was too strong a disconnect.

It took me a while, but I figured out a nice approach to the material.  I needed a song from the Samaritan Woman's perspective, sharing her testimony to the other villagers.  Once I settled on a song, it wrote itself.

That's When He Told Me (parody of Somebody Told Me by The Killers)

I just came back--got a tale to tell
I just came back from the Samar'tan township well...
I'm not on crack, got nothing to sell
There at that place, I had seen this dude
Looked at His face, saw that He was a Jew...

Did He not know what was plain in view
That I couldn't talk with that man, a Jew...
" Give me a drink, give me a drink" he cried.
I looked at him and wondered "Who's this guy?"

That's when he told me
That I had five husbands
--the guy that I lived with
was not real-ly my husband. Hey, look there
You pray on that mountain
You should have a fountain...

What He had said, made me want to run
Where did he get the skinny on what I had done?
As you can guess, it was just no fun.
I had tried to steer the subject far from this.
So I pointed out that he had nothing to draw with...

But as I tried to steer the gabbing far from this.
Whatever I had lobbed at Him, He would hit
Could this be Christ, could this be Christ--the proooof?
Time that I worship in Spirit and in Truth...

That's when he told me
That I had five husbands
--the guy that I lived with
was not real-ly my husband. Hey, look there
You pray on that mountain
You should have a fountain
that's welling up, welling up...

He said "I am He,
Messi-ah, who's coming."
And He's still at the well right now
O how you oughta know this guy...


[x3]
Coz that's what he told me
That I had five husbands
--the guy that I lived with
was not real-ly my husband. Hey, look there
You pray on that mountain
You should have a fountain
that's welling up, welling up ...
insi-i-ide.
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In other news, the new Top Ten Adoration Songs has been listed, and my "Holy God We Praise Your Great Name" came up at 3.  Yay!

Nick