From the recording Louder Than Plaid
Lyrics
Climb Down
Parody of "I'm Down" performed by The Beatles and written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
(Luke 19:1-10)
You're a little guy, thinkin' I can't see
You can't hide 'cause you're up in that tree
Climb down (Down) (I'll be right down)
Climb down (Down) (I'm lost and found)
Climb down (Down) (I'll be right down)
I'll get a ladder — if you don't climb down
(I'll get a ladder) — if you don't climb down
Man climbs tree 'cause the crowd's in the way
Hey, let's hang out together today!
Climb down (Down) (I'll be right down)
Climb down (Down) (I'm lost and found)
Climb down (Down) (I'll be right down)
I can't do that — if you don't climb down
(I can't do that) — if you don't climb down
Owwwoooh!
Way up alone there with nobody else
Use your home — make some friends for yourself
Climb down (Down) (I'll be right down)
Oh, please, climb down (Down) (I'm lost and found)
Climb down (Down) (I'll be right down)
I'll get giraffes — if you don't climb down
(I'll get giraffes) — if you don't climb down
Wowwwww! Wow! Hurry up, child!
Woo! Woo! Can you hear Me?
Ha ha ha ha Ooh yeah!
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REPEAT TWICE
SPOKEN OVER LAST SECTION:
Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.” So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.” But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham. For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
(Luke 19:1-10, New International Version)