Bb5                                   F5              

Life is like an ocean voyage and our bodies are the ships

C5                                    A5            D5    D5

And without a moral compass we would all be cast adrift

      Bb5                           F5

So to keep us on our bearings, the Lord gave us a gift

C5                                    C5

And like most gifts you get, it was a book



  F5                              Bb5

I only read one book, but it's a good book, don't you know

  C5                                                F5

I act the way I act because the Good Book tells me so

     F5               F5            Bb5             Bb5

If I wanna known how to be good, it's to the Good Book that I go

         C5                            F5

'Cos the Good Book is a book and it is good and it's a book



I know the Good Book's good because the Good Book says it's good

I know the Good Book knows it's good because a really good book would

You wouldn't cook without a cookbook and I think it's understood

You can't be good without a Good Book 'cos it's good and it's a book

And it is good for cookin'



D5                                      A5

I tried to read some other books, but I soon gave up on that

    Bb5                                 F5              C5

The paragraphs ain't numbered and they complicate the facts

  A5                                    D5

I can't read Harry Potter 'cos they're worshipping false gods and that

    G5                                 C5

And Dumbledore's a poofter and that's bad, 'cos it's not good



Morality is written there in simple white and black

I feel sorry for you heathens, got to think about all that

Good is good and evil's bad and goats are good and pigs are crap

You'll find which one is which in the Good Book, 'cos it's good

And it's a book, and it's a book



I had a cat, she gave birth to a litter

The kittens were adorable and they made my family laugh

But as they grew they started misbehavin'

So I drowned the little fuckers in the bath

When the creatures in your care start being menaces

    G5                                   C5

The answers can be found right there in Genesis!

        D5

Chapter 6, Verse 5-7!



G5

Swing your partner by the hand

C5

Have a baby if you can

D5

But if the voices your head



Say to sacrifice your kid

G5

To satiate your loving God's

C5

Fetish for dead baby blood

D5

It's simple faith, the Book demands



So raise that knife up in your hand!



  F5                                          Bb5

Before the Good Book made us good, there was no good way to know

     C5                                                    F5

If a thing was good or not that good or kind of touch and go



So God decided he'd give writing allegoric prose a go

And so he wrote a book and it was generally well-received



    Bb5                               F5              C5

The Telegraph said, "This God is reminiscent of the Norse."

    Bb5                                 F5                  C5

The Times said, "Kind of turgid, but I liked the bit with horses."

    A5                                D5

The Mail said, "Lots of massacres, a violent tour de force.

       G5                                  C5

If you only read one book this year, then this one is a book

          D5

And it is good, and it's a book!"



Swing your daughter by the hand

But if she gets raped by a man

And refuses then to marry him

Stone her to death!



   E5                                      B5                                       

If you just close your eyes and block your ears

         C5                          G5                 D5

To the accumulated knowledge of the last two thousand years

     B5                                   E5

Then morally, guess what? You're off the hook

          A5                                D5

And thank Christ you only have to read one book



D5

Just because the book's contents

     A5

Were written generations hence

D5

By hairy desert-dwelling gents

A5

Squatting in their dusty tents

E5

Just because what Heaven said

B5

Was said before they'd leavened bread

E5

Just 'cos Jesus couldn't read

B5

Doesn't mean that we should need

C5

When manipulating human genes

G5

To alleviate pain and fight disease

C5

When deciding whether it's wrong or right

G5

To help the dyin' let go of life

D5

Or stop a pregnancy when it's



Just a tiny blastocyst

B5                                      E5

There's no reason why we should take a look

D5            C5

At any other book

G5

But the Good Book

A5

'Cause it's good



And it's a book

D5

And it's a book



And it's quite good!





G5                G5

Good is good and evil's bad

C5                      C5

And kids get killed when God gets mad

D5

And you'd better take a good look

       G5            D5 G5

At the Good Book