Fun Songs
Ed and Madeleine EckertModern UU Minister
She is the very model of a modern UU ministerShe’s pastoral and personal with power to administer
She knows the leaders of the church and quotes their deeds historical
From Civitus to Sigismund in order categorical.
She’s very well acquainted too with matters metaphysical
And understands equations and conundrums that are quizzical
About her sermonizing she has leanings toward the comical
She’s flowing and so rhythmical and also economical.
She’s flowing and so rhythmical and also economical.
She’s flowing and so rhythmical and also economical.
She’s flowing and so rhythmical and also economi-nomi-cal.
She’s beautiful and praisable and also philosophical
Magnifical, majestical, and highly philanthropical
With matters problematical, she’s able to administer
She is the very model of a modern UU minister!
She’s very good at integrating many different points of view
And knows the world religions and recites the text of Old and New
In short, she sees the good in all and so removes the sinister
And is the very model of a modern UU minister.
And when she finds the perfect myth, she plies it with the tactical
By analyzing and describing in a way most practical.
To make her point without dissent, she is a true superior
She has a knack for using tact that won’t hurt your interior.
She has a knack for using tact that won’t hurt your interior.
She has a knack for using tact that won’t hurt your interior.
She has a knack for using tact that won’t hurt your interi-teri-or.
She’s mythical and biblical and often metaphorical
She’s lyrical, empirical, she truly is an oracle.
Political and ethical, with talent to administer
She is the very model of a modern UU minister!
Tune: "Modern Major General" by Gilbert & Sullivan
Words: © 1999 by Edward Simon Eckert and Madeleine Devereaux
Eckert
Source: The Eckert Song Collection
Copyright: The author has given Unitarian Universalist Association member congregations permission to reprint this piece for use in public worship. Any reprints must acknowledge the name of the author.
Last updated on Tuesday, August 28, 2007.
