A common incantation
For better and for worse
A common name —in any
Country, often it can be heard
For so many named their children
After that man from Galilee
As if to predetermine
What good people they could be
Of these fishes and birds he speaks
Comes this lesson for you and me
Be fruitful and do multiply
Sing songs from the tops of the trees
This life is so certainly short
When stacked up to eternity
So waste not time on petty things
Give to the sick, the poor, the needy
If you, yourself are not hungry
Then for someone else do something more
For in the end, when you’ve nothing left
Your deeds will open your last door…
