This song was written in time for the Winter Warmer in February, with the intention of peforming it again to a large gathering. It’s here now, as we won’t be meeting together for a long time!
Alison
The Parish Vacancy
Tune: Summer holiday
We’re all going on a parish vacancy
no more vicars for a year or two,
lots of challenges for kind clergy visitors
to preach a sermon to me and you,
as we sleep sit in our pew.
We’re grateful for our two churchwardens,
but Stephen’s Cox-and-Box makes him quake,
and Mike has so many burdens,
how does he stay a Wake?
Churches benefit from parish vacancies,
that’s the theory – but is it true?
When a priest-in-charge arrives at St Thomas’s,
what will he or she say and do,
when they look at our pew?
They’ll see that we all love each other,
they’ll see a lovely roof overhead,
and proof that our congregation
has been divinely fed!
So we thank the PCC and churchwardens,
Bill and Colin and dear Roland too,
and we ask the Lord to guide all the applicants
so selection can soon go through,
bringing joy to our pew!
Pagham Church
Alison Blenkinsop 15 February 2020