"So this is your last fling before your big day," they said, alluding to my going to a Billy Bragg gig at The Lowry tonight, 24 hours before being made a vicar. Comments lightly meant, but carrying in them a hint of the 'vicars don't do that sort of thing' idea ...
I hope this vicar continues to. Not many other artists provide the occasion to be purged, purified by the likes of Leon Rosselson's World Turned Upside Down, a song in praise of the Diggers and in defiance of corrupt authority:
They make the laws
To chain us well
The clergy dazzle us with heaven
Or they damn us into hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
The God of greed who feeds the rich
While poor men starve
Uncomfortable words for one in my position; good, essential, uncomfortable words.
john davies
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