In 1848, a song with the title All Things Bright and Beautiful appeared for the first time in Mrs. Cecil Alexander’s Hymns for Little Children. It subsequently became a Christian standard, and you are probably familiar with at least some of the lyrics (and almost surely the general concept), so I won’t include them here.
Also, they are considerably less amusing than the lyrics to the parody version written by British comedian Eric Idle for Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album in 1980.
Considerably More Amusing
I include a couple of verses to give you the general idea:
“All things dull and ugly, all creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty, the Lord God made the lot.Each nasty little hornet, each beastly little squid,
Who made the spiky urchin? Who made the sharks? He did.”
It goes on in much the same vein for four or five stanzas, but you get the picture. You can read the whole thing here if you care to, or if you don’t recall it (it has been nearly 35 years). As a teenager, I thought it was hilarious … until I didn’t.
