Parody of "Take the Money and Run" performed by The Steve Miller Band
and written by Steve Miller
(Luke 15:11-32)
Hoot! Hoo!
This is a story that Jesus told way back in Luke
Two young brothers with much inheritance due
But in their father's house they had to follow rules
And so one asked him if he'd divide it all up in two
He headed out to do the world and travel
That's where his plans they soon all came unraveled
He didn't know shallow friends would gobble his cash flow
Wild pursuits took the money he'd brung
Hoot hoot hoo!
But no one would take the prodigal son
No one would take the prodigal son
Hoot hoot hoo!
No one would take the prodigal son
No one would take the prodigal son
Hoot hoot hoo!
Well, he maxed out all his credit, and he's cashless
And now he don't sip on daiquiris 'cause the fact is
He ain't gonna get no food today for breakfast
He makes his livin' now feeding pigs in trash pits
While it's true, whoa-oh-oh-oh whoa, we disobey
Still we know, God offers His family extra-grace
He lost his money, hey, but yo, he caught a break
He went to Dad's house and Dad came running to save
Singin'
Come home with me, prodigal son
Come home with me, prodigal son
Hoot hoot hoo!
Come home with me, prodigal son
Hallelujah!
Come home with me, prodigal son
Hoo hoo hoo!
LEAD
Yeah heh-eh-eh-eh
Go home with the prodigal son
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Hoo hoo hoo!
Go home with the prodigal son
Hallelujah!
Go home with the prodigal son
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Hoo hoo hoo!
Go home with the prodigal son
Luke 15:16
And he would have gladly filled his stomach with the pods that the swine were
eating, and no one was giving anything to him.
