Our Lord loves the family, our Lord loves the saved
Our Lord loves the unborn babies and the NRA
And our Lord hates the Liberals, the faggots, and their friends
We're soldiers of Christ, and we're here to defend
The way it used to be
The way it oughta be
The way it's gonna be again
The days of Cain and Abel
In the days of The Crusades
The days of Inquisitions
They made the damned behave
Before emancipation
Before Roe and Wade
Before they taught the little children
That they evolved from apes
The way it used to be
The way it oughta be
The way it's gonna be again
When we're in heaven, you'll be sorry then
Our Lord loves the sinner as long as he don't sin
He knows the thoughts you're thinking
He knows with whom you've been
And our Lord loves this country, he's with you at the polls
He knows the lever that you pull
He's keeping track of souls
The way it used to be
The way it oughta be
The way it's gonna be again
When we're in heaven, you'll be sorry
When we're in heaven, you'll be sorry
When we're in heaven, you'll be sorry then
Gonna be sorry then
Jill sobule/Robin Eaton
I used to love watching the Jim and Tammy Fay Baker show. Sure, they were scam artists, but other than the people they scammed, it was pretty benign, pastel colored, and just plain goofy. Politics really played no part of the show. They didn’t spew right-wing Christian nationalism or conspiracies - or not that I remember. And you had to love Tammy Fay. Then in 1987, sex and financial scandals brought my favorite guilty pleasure TV watching to an end. I tried to find alternatives, but all I could find were the likes of Falwell, Robertson, and Dobson. Sure, they were the same kind of swindler, but way more nefarious, spewing conspiracy, hate and fear. Not at all fun to watch. And they seemed to be gaining power more and more and influence within the Republican Party. So...I wrote a song with my pal, Robin.
“Soldiers of Christ” was on my 1997 Happy Town album. At that time, there weren’t many political or protests songs in pop music. I’m not sure this song endeared me to the powers that be at the record label.
A few years later, I kind of stopped singing the song, thinking it was cliched and passé . I mean we got gay marriage, Roe v Wade was a given, and those kooks were just a small minority.
Well…here we are in 2023, and it feels more relevant now than when I wrote it.
Enjoy.
By the way, sometime in the late 1990s, my friend lived in Colorado Springs, home of Dobson’s Focus on the Family. She rode around with a bumper sticker on her Subaru that read, “Focus On Your Own Damn Family”.