Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Difficulty: Novice
Intro:
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I have always found that Angels
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have the vanity to speak of
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themselves as the only wise; this they
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do with a confident insolence sprouting
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from systematic reason-
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ing
Verse 1:
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Thus Swedenborg boasts that what he writes is new; tho' it is only the
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Contents or Index of already publish'd books;A man carried a
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monkey about for a show, & because he was a little wiser than the monkey,...
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grew vain, and conciev'd himself as much wiser than seven men.
Refrain 1:
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It is so with Swedenborg; he shows the folly of
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churches & exposes hypocrites, till he imagines that all are
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religious, & himself the single one on earth that ever broke a
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net... Now hear a plain fact;
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Swedenborg has not written one new truth. And now hear
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another he has written all the old falshoods. And now hear the
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reason He conversed with Angels who are all
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religious, & conversed not with Devils who all hate religion, for he was
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incapable thro' his conceited notions Thus Swedenborgs
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writings are a recapitulation of all superficial, opinions,
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and an analysis of the more sublime, but no further
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Have now another plain fact- Anyone of mechanical talents may;
Refrain 2:
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From the writings of Paracelsus or Jacob Behmen, produce ten thousand vol-
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umes of equal value with Swedenborgs, and from those of Dante or Shake
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spear, an infinite number But when he has done this, let him not
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say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle
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in sunshine