May 1, Getting the Vaccine  (May be sung to hymn ‘Bringing in the Sheaves’)

May 1, Getting the Vaccine  (May be sung to Bringing in the Sheaves) (1)

 

If you are desirous to rid us of virus,

And stop the pandemic of Covid 19,

Get your vaccinations; stop the new mutations;

Let us march, rejoicing, to get the vaccine.

 

Chorus:  Getting the vaccine, getting the vaccine,

Let us go rejoicing, to get the vaccine.

Getting the vaccine, getting the vaccine,

Then come home, rejoicing, after the vaccine.

 

We read every morning, thousands more are mourning,

As the people suffer from Covid 19.

When day turns to evening, ever more are grieving;

They would be rejoicing, if they took vaccine.

 

Chorus:  Getting the vaccine….

 

Fundamentalism, and evangelism

Often aid the spreading of Covid 19.

Placing our reliance on the facts of science,

Let us go together to get the vaccine.

 

Chorus:  Getting the vaccine…

 

Males, where doubt still lingers: Christian, white, right-wingers,

They claim faith protects them from Covid 19.

Stubbornly denying; stubbornly defying;

Suffering and dying; they refuse vaccine.

 

Chorus: Getting the vaccine…

 

  • “Bringing in the Sheaves:” lyric by Knowles Shaw (1874) tune by George Minor (1880) is a rousing hymn with several versions on YouTube. Perhaps the version by Tennessee Ernie Ford is best known.

I hope my slightly modified lyrics might serve to motivate those who are “vaccine hesitant,” for religious reasons.  If testosterone is the culprit, I fear that little can be said or done.  It has been said that “stupidity kills but not soon enough.”