Alas For You

<br>Alas alas for you<br>Lawyers and pharisees<br>Hypocrits that you be<br>Searching for souls and fools to forsake them<br>You travel the land you scour the sea<br>After you`ve got your converts you make them<br>Twice as fit for hell!<br>As you are yourselves!<br>Alas, alas for you<br>Lawyers and pharisees<br>Hypocrits that you are<br>Sure that the kingdom of Heaven awaits you<br>You will not venture half so far<br>Other men that might enter the gates you<br>Keep from passing through!<br>Drag them down with you!<br>You snakes, you viper`s brood<br>You cannot escape being Devil`s food!<br>I send you prophets, I send you preachers<br>Sages and rages and ages of teachers<br>Nothing can bar your mood<br>(Broadway only, next verse)<br>Alas, alas for you<br>Lawyers and pharisees<br>Hypocrits to a man<br>Sons of the dogs who murdered the prophets<br>Finishing off what your fathers began<br>You don`t have time to scorn and to scoff<br>It`s getting very late!<br>Vengence doesn`t wait!<br>You snakes, you viper`s brood<br>You cannot escape being Devil`s food!<br>I send you prophets, I send you preachers<br>Sages and rages and ages of teachers<br>Nothing can bar your mood<br>Blind guides, blind fools<br>The blood you spilt<br>On you will fall!<br>This nation, this generation<br>Will bear the guilt of it all!<br>Alas, alas alas for you!<br>Blind fools!!