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From the album Business as Usual, Down Under was a #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit for Men at Work in 1981.

Songwriter:
Colin Hay & Ron Strykert


Stats:
Genre: Pop
Length: 3:39

Outnumbered
Parody of "Down Under" by Men at Work
(Acts 21:26-24:27)

Traveling in a dried-out country
On a police detail with Caesar's army
I met a strange Judean -- he made a disturbance
And I took my men 'cause the natives were restless
And I said

Do your job 'cause the man's outnumbered
We'd better go and get up there
Can't you see that they'll tear him asunder
You better run – you better take others.

I rescued the man – it was Paul
He goes, Please good sir, we truly must talk
I said, Do you speak the right language?
He just smiled, he came from a Benjamite family
But he said

I come from a land far from here
With Greek and Romanesque culture
Can you please let them hear me once, sir?
I said, All right, and let him face the mob a while 

Lysius – that is my name
And that Paul he had much to say
He said Christianity I'm defending
Although I once was its grandest enemy
But Jesus

Spoke to me with a voice like thunder
And He did show me I'd blundered
Can you help, can you help but wonder
Why did I run from everything I was

(Yes, people) Listenin' to him I wondered
If really Paul was outnumbered
'Cause if he's right and Jesus is up there
He's better off -- I'd rather take those odds

If you want the chapter number
Where we met Paul and went from there
In the Book of the Acts -- it's somewhere
In 21 through 28 uh huh

(People) Listenin' to him I wondered
If really Paul was outnumbered
'Cause if he's right and Jesus is up there
He's better off – I'd rather take those odds

Listenin' to him I wondered
If really Paul was outnumbered

Acts 21:31-32
While they were trying to kill him, news reached the commander of the Roman
troops that the whole city of Jerusalem was in an uproar. He at once took some
officers and soldiers and ran down to the crowd. When the rioters saw the
commander and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.


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