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No title for this one yet, it's just a stray dog... uuuh, a stray idea! One day I was thinking about books etc. with and without sequels, the strange thought occured to me that some stories are so complete in themselves, you might as well try writing a sequel to the Bible!

The thought stuck - "writing a sequel to the Bible"? A while later I had come up with a chorus, and the next week (?) the first verse came filtering through the ether, or whatever it is these things do... [The second verse came a couple of years later!] For some obscure reason, the first part of the verse scans with "Get Back". The rest does not.

Jerry was a writer
churning out the lighter
kind of entertainment swill
just to make some money
Everything was phony
synthesized and cheap, but still -

Everybody said "He's gonna make it some day"
and goodness have mercy, they were right!
I can still remember when he called me to say:
"Oh my brother, I have seen the light!
I have got a wonderful idea!
I'll be famous, just you wait and see!"

  Jerry Lee Jameson from Banbury Cross
  is writing a sequel to the Bible
  on a typer he's borrowed from Jennifer's boss
  Goodness knows who will sue him for libel

  There's gonna be some controversy
  and people who wish Jerry Jameson to Hell
  But Jerry hopes the Lord will have mercy
  Not to mention a sense for his humour as well!

Jerry's spinning stories
wild, and furthermore he's
also putting them in rhyme
(The) critics and the readers
and religious leaders
wonder if he'll stop in time

Jerry keeps assuring me whenever we meet
everything is going just as planned
Everybody's going to be swept off their feet
He is certain that he will be banned!
If we can believe in his tips
it's gonna be an apocalypse!

  Jerry Lee Jameson from Banbury Cross
  is writing a sequel to the Bible
  on a typer he's borrowed from Jennifer's boss
  Goodness knows who will sue him for libel

  There's gonna be some controversy
  and people who wish Jerry Jameson to Hell
  But Jerry hopes the Lord will have mercy
  Not to mention a sense for his humour as well!

(interlude)

Jerry keeps on writing
Isn't it exciting?
I know he will enrapture
you with the final chapter!

  Jerry Lee Jameson from Banbury Cross
  is writing a sequel to the Bible
  on a typer he's borrowed from Jennifer's boss
  Goodness knows who will sue him for libel

  There's gonna be some controversy
  and people who wish Jerry Jameson to Hell
  But Jerry hopes the Lord will have mercy
  Not to mention a sense for his humour as well!

  Not to mention a sense for his humour as well!


[For those who didn't know: Banbury is a town in Oxfordshire, probably best know to the average reader (outside Oxfordshire anyway) from the nursery rhyme

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross,
To see a fine lady ride on a white horse.
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,
She shall have music wherever she goes.

Yes, there actually is a cross in Banbury - in fact there are three according to the history page (scroll down a bit or just search for "cross")...

Jerry Lee Jameson is just one of those names that appear out of nowhere and have a nice sound. For all I know there may actually be a real J. L. Jameson living in Banbury, maybe even near one of the crosses!
As for who Jennifer is, that will have to wait until someone writes a few more verses, or a novel or something (or a sequel to the Bible...?)]


A little side note: The original version of this page (including the song) was written a couple of years back, when I was under the impression that Banbury Cross was a place (named after a crossroad or something) it was possible for someone to be from, rather than an actual cross. (It's possible that the area around the cross is named after it, but I' don't know for sure...)
Anyway, to give some credit where more or less due, I started searching for Banbury on the web (which led to updating this page) after "overhearing" a conversation on FurryMuck between Lamar and (I think it was) Ouroboros about the place. Funny what talking about things can lead too - loose lips may indeed sink ships, but they also update web pages!
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