Broken Pageant Play Lyrics

December 24th

Is Christmas Eve each year

Candlelight singing Silent Night

Brings tidings of good cheer

This year the deacons said

"Let's put on a pageant play

To remember then the reason

We celebrate the season

The Child born to save"

Mary and Joseph, with

A real-life donkey too

Held a little baby doll

And sang a song or two

With one big gesture

Joseph hit sweet Mary's hands

So the baby doll went flying

And Mary started crying

But no one saw where it lands

It was a broken pageant play

All the children on display

It may be radical

But I'll take Sabbatical

At Christmas time next year

The children's choir sang

Angels heard on high

This year Tommy Baker

Had grown to twice his size

He took a step out front

To sing the big solo

But his Vocal range was bending

And his octaves were descending

So the angels were heard on low

It was a broken pageant play

All the children on display

It may be radical

But I'll take Sabbatical

At Christmas time next year

Each Wiseman struggled to

Remember their next line

Proclaiming gifts they brought of gold

Myrrh and Frankenstein

A fourth and final gift

Laid right before our eyes

And the play was quickly over

We recognized an odor

The Donkey left a surprise

So then it was my turn

To preach a homily

But after such disaster

I could only say one thing

When broken people have

A broken pageant play

I'm reminded of the reason

We celebrate this season

That Jesus came to save