Friday Frivolity: The Catholic Pick-Up Song
A few weeks ago I compiled the list of “Top Twenty Catholic Pick-up Lines” (Part 1, Part 2). Did you wonder what it might be like if somebody incorporated them into a song? Well, wonder no more! Thanks to Jenna for bringing this video to my attention.
(The song begins about about the 1:10 mark)
As I was watching this I realized that a lot of these lines aren’t new, they’ve been used at least since ever there was a Romeo and a Juliet…
Romeo: “If I profane with my unworthiest hand, this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss”
Juliet: “Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss”
Romeo: “Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?”
Juliet: “Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer”
Romeo: “O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair”
Juliet: “Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake”
Romeo: “Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged…”
[kissing noises]