Gracious submission

Verses: men
Chorus: ladies

1. Gracious submission, this is God's plan:
   The wife should be silent, serving her man,
   shining his shoes and fetching a beer:
   this is our faith, so do it, my dear.

   Chorus:
       Gracious submission, this is my song,
       serving my husband all the day long.
       Gracious submission, this is my song,
       Kissing his butt and tagging along.

2. Men have decided, Scripture agrees,
   you should obey us, so down on your knees;
   Ladies are mothers, they work in the house,
   serving their husbands, meek as a mouse.

   (Chorus)

3. Men should be leaders, that is the rule;
   ladies should follow, it's so very cool.
   Meek and submissive a lady should be,
   then she'll be almost as godly as me.

   (Chorus)

Source unknown. This version copyright © David Lee, Durham, UK, Nov 1998.

• Source unknown, but understood to be related to a Southern Baptist (USA) convention in 1998. (I'd love to be able to give (or claim!) full credit.)
• Original spoof seemed to require lots of "who's who" knowledge of (presumably) the Southern Baptists. This version has been adapted for more general use.
• Ephesians 5:22-23a, 24b: "Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife..." ... "...wives should submit to their husbands in everything."
• 1 Cor. 11:3: "The head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is the man."
• 1 Cor .14:34-35: "Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission as the Law says."
• 1 Tim. 2:12: "I do not permit a woman to teach or have authority over a man; she must be silent."

(P.S. for the humour-impaired: this is a spoof.)