Alas For You Lyrics - Singles - Schwartz Stephen

Alas alas for you 

Lawyers and pharisees 

Hypocrits that you be 

Searching for souls and fools to forsake them 

You travel the land you scour the sea 

After you've got your converts you make them 

Twice as fit for hell! 

As you are yourselves! 

Alas, alas for you 

Lawyers and pharisees 

Hypocrits that you are 

Sure that the kingdom of Heaven awaits you 

You will not venture half so far 

Other men that might enter the gates you 

Keep from passing through! 

Drag them down with you! 

You snakes, you viper's brood 

You cannot escape being Devil's food! 

I send you prophets, I send you preachers 

Sages and rages and ages of teachers 

Nothing can bar your mood 

(Broadway only, next verse) 

Alas, alas for you 

Lawyers and pharisees 

Hypocrits to a man 

Sons of the dogs who murdered the prophets 

Finishing off what your fathers began 

You don't have time to scorn and to scoff 

It's getting very late! 

Vengence doesn't wait! 

You snakes, you viper's brood 

You cannot escape being Devil's food! 

I send you prophets, I send you preachers 

Sages and rages and ages of teachers 

Nothing can bar your mood 

Blind guides, blind fools 

The blood you spilt 

On you will fall! 

This nation, this generation 

Shall bear the guilt of it all! 

Alas, alas alas for you! 

Blind fools!!