Parody of "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" performed by Elton John and written by Elton John
& Bernie Taupin
(Mark 3:1-6; Luke 13:10-17)
NOTE: This song was originally recorded at our fifth concert ever, June 20, 1992, at the Paradise
Club in Irwin PA. We released it on our first live cassette, "Get Your Wigs," in June 1992.
The Pharisees say that on the Sabbath day
All workin' is against the law
But there was a man with a withered hand
In the synagogue where Jesus taught
The Pharisees were watchin'
But they didn't do no talkin'
'Cause they wanted to see Him sweat
But Jesus knew there thoughts
And they were not what they ought
He took him and healed him and said
Don't give us none of your false religion
I've had it with you hypocrites
Sabbath day that's alright for righting
Every wrong the devil did
Man you know that ever since-a Jesus came
God just heals them left and right
And Sabbath day sights are righteous sights
Sabbath day righteous sights, alright, alright ... oooo
Well, her back was a sight and I'm bein' polite
She was bendin' over double to half of her height
Until Jesus loosed her muscles there in Luke 13
After 18 years she straightened out and Ð she was freed
A couple other times that the Sabbath was right
Was a man with the dropsy and a man born blind
Peter's mother-in-law and a demoniac
And Beth-es-da with the man with the mat
CHORUS
Mark 3:4
Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to
