Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!myers From: myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Worst Song Lyrics (Offensive) Message-ID: <13@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 12:07:01 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.13 Posted: Wed Oct 24 12:07:01 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 07:02:31 EDT References: <1752@inmet.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 22 > > My candidate for the worst lyrics of all time -- and I'm surprised > that nobody else has brought it up yet -- is the following song > from "Jesus Christ Superstar" by Webber & Rice. Supposedly the > Jews are singing it to Jesus. > > Ho-sanna, Hey-sanna, Sanna, Sanna, Ho, > Sanna Hey, Sanna Ho Saaa Naaaaa... > Hey, J.C., J. C., > You're all right by me! > Sanna Hey, Sanna Ho, Superstar! > If these are the worst lyrics of all time, then all music must be pretty wonderful and sophisticated (perhaps the original poster is joking?!). I find that they lend exactly the right air of pretentious/shallow/non-holy adulation of the mass of the masses at that time in the story. Make the lyrics fit the mood (apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan). Jeff Myers