"Let Them Eat Bibles" genre: Alternative General
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	A satirical look at conservative views to get people off of welfare and to MAKE them conform to THEIR idea of how a society should be run. Never mind little things like, bad health, a cloistered economy, people stepping over the homeless to get into restaurants... you know the regular stuff that comes along after a prolonged exposure to a period of conservative enlightenment [yikes]. I wrote another song called "That's how the Cockroach" took over the world, around the same time. The sentiment is ruffly the same... Dark humour?
	Credits: Written By: Bob Ironside (SOCAN) 1994. Drums: By Greg Brennan (nice take on a Pocaro shuffle on this one).
	Story Behind the Song Well, I saw this documentary one Sunday night on a guy who wrote a book that suggested that soup kitchens be shut down and orphanages be erected and blah-blah-blah. He was all for preaching Jesus to the homeless but not giving them any food... Okay. Well, the Speaker of the House in the USA at the time, Mr. Gingrich [spelling?], endorsed this whacko's book verbally and I thought... This is a song. So I called on the God's of satirical inspiration and assumed the position of a Cracker and the song wrote itself. It may end up a Slippery Trip Hazard tune someday [the band I write for with my Cousin Sean Passmore]. Lyrics LET THEM EAT BIBLES (Ironside 1994) LOOK AT THAT POOR GUY... BEGGIN’ IN THE STREET. MAN HE LOOKS DISGUSTING. YOU KNOW, I DON’T THINK HE CARES ABOUT THE WAY HE LOOKS, HE DON’T WANTTO WORK OR NOTHIN’, STANDIN’ AROUND HERE CAUSIN’ TROUBLE, SHOULD GET A JOB AT MACDONALDS, LORD I DON’T THINK THESE POOR SLOBS UNDERSTAND, DON’T GIVE THEM NO MONEY OR NO FOOD OR NOTHIN’. JUST GO AND STICK A BIBLE IN THEIR HAND, YOU KNOW I THINK THAT’S A HELLUVA PLAN. GONNA LET THEM EAT BIBLES, DON’T GIVE THEM NOTHING ELSE, WE GOTTA KEEP ALL THE BAGELS, SO THEN THEY CAN SAVE ALL THEMSELVES! WE’LL BUILD A GREAT BIG ORPHANAGE. THAT’S WHERE WE’RE GONNA STUFF ALL THE KIDS. THEN WE CAN BRING THEM ALL UP RIGHT AND GOOD. JUST LIKE ALL OUR PARENTS DID. AND THEN, THEN WE CAN MAKE THEM ALL WEAR LITTLE BROWN SHIRTS. AND THEN THEY CAN ALL STAND ALL STRAIGHT IN A ROW. GONNA PUMP ALL OF THEIR HEADS FULL OF JEEEEESUS. THE JESUS THAT YOU AND ME KNOW. LET THEM EAT BIBLES, DON’T GIVE THEM NOTHING ELSE, WE GOTTA KEEP ALL THE BAGELS, SO THEN THEY CAN SAVE ALL THEMSELVES! I DON’T CARE ABOUT OTHER RELIGIONS, SEEMS TO ME THEY’RE GONNA LOSE ALL THEIR SOULS. YOU CAN JUST PUT’EM ALL ON A GREAT BIG BOAT. I DON’T CARE WHERE THEY GO. DON’T YOU PICK ON THE RICH FOLKS.... NOW. ‘CAUSE THEY GOT IT ALL FIGURED OUT! NOW THE LORD ESPECIALLY LOVES A RICH MAN, THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT (YOU SEE?). LET THEM EAT BIBLES, DON’T GIVE THEM NOTHING ELSE, WE GOTTA KEEP ALL THE BAGELS, SO THEN THEY CAN SAVE ALL THEMSELVES! (SAVE YOURSELVES. THEN YOU’LL BE SAVED. EATIN’ BIBLES AND GETTING YOUR RUFFAGE.)

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