For if you follow your vocation
As priest or husband (it’s a toss up),
Up will fly your jubilation –
For if you follow your vocation
You will bend and take your cross up,
Every day, and that’s your calling:
For if you follow your vocation
You just may find it dull, appalling.

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Today I pray my tenth novena,
I love to pray it very slowly
To Rome I’ll die in the arena!
Today I pray my tenth novena.
Than thou I have become more holy
I’ll show my faith off, here and now!
Today I pray my tenth novena,
And I am holier than thou.

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Make every little thing be just
Exactly right and not askew
I don’t like messes, so I must
Make every little thing be just
The way I want it; that means you.
Lord, he’s not perfect, nor is she.
Make every little thing be just,
But just make sure it just ain’t me.