Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Andrew Murray, artist - Baba Brinkman
Date of issue: 22.10.2015
Song language: English
Andrew Murray |
We can take our time, we don’t have to hurry |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |
Hand on the bible, no perjury to the jury |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |
My great great great grandfather was a Scottish Presbyterian |
He traveled to South Africa to settle and get married in |
The Transvaal, |
which was an Afrikaner area |
That Dutch Reform Christian folk were farming dairy in |
My great great great grandfather Andrew Murray was a minister |
1822 he emigrated to begin his work |
Preaching sermons every Sunday for the sons and daughters |
Of the Boer people, |
the cattle-farming Afrikaners |
Calvinism was the religion, he did the honours |
David Livingstone was one of his visiting doctors |
He went to Holland first to learn the tongue of the Netherlands |
He needed it to tend his flock and be a better Reverend |
Mooi! |
Maria Stegmann was his 16 year old wife |
& soon they had a couple of kids, I’m talkin' plural |
Nice! |
Andrew junior was a writer |
He wrote The Prayer Life, Abide in Christ and other fine works |
Two hundred and forty total books of Christian piety |
Surrender and devotion, |
obedience and sobriety |
I come from good good Scottish protestant stock |
My ancestors loved that divine providence talk |
My ancestors, well they weren’t exactly rational |
Except that natural selection trades in one capital |
Surviving descendants, raw genetic self-interest |
And that’s different from individual forms of selfishness |
Andrew Murray could’ve set up shop to sell fishnets on the Scottish coast, |
but he was just too religious |
So instead he was a fishermen of men like the apostles |
He read his gospels and had as many kids as possible |
But we can take our time, |
we don’t have to hurry |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |
Hand on the bible, |
no perjury to the jury |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |
So if I’m livin' and my cousins are livin' |
Maybe there’s something more to my great grandfather’s religion |
Than meets the naked eye, ‘cause they spread the word of Christ |
And they married fertile wives |
and their children’s children thrived |
And I bet they’d probably tell you they did it for Jesus' sake and |
Not because the love of Jesus leads to baby-makin' |
But I’m tryin' to see how these religions came to be |
And that’s different from the reason people say they believe |
‘Cause if beliefs can motivate you to an action that’s adaptive |
There’s no reason those beliefs need to be factually accurate |
In fact, if they can motivate you better with distractions |
From reality, well we would call that «practically accurate» |
And pragmatism when you’re talkin' natural selection |
Just means: «Whatever leads to leavin' plentiful descendants» |
That’s the «ultimate cause» and to emphasize the difference |
The «proximate cause» is in emotional mechanisms |
And yes, participation in a church can bring some benefits |
Mutual collectivist assistance and the rest of it |
The circling of wagons and defence of all your brethren |
The measurable acceptance and love and trust and togetherness |
That comes from bein' part of somethin' bigger than yourself |
If you need to find community, hey, religion can help |
But I’ve got my own community, some hippie Canadians |
Some hip-hop heads and some entertainers and atheists |
And writers and some scientists and profs at some colleges |
And yeah, religious people seem to be outbreeding all of us |
But we can take our time, |
we don’t have to hurry |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |
Hand on the bible, |
no perjury to the jury |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |
I went down to South Africa to meet my Christians cousins |
And whoa! |
I’ve got dozens to the power of dozens |
Explosive exponential growth, |
I’m talkin' hundreds |
And hundreds, my cousin Teo did the sums and number crunchin' |
And yeah, Andrew Murray’s doin' okay genetically |
Let me break it down for you geometrically |
Andrew and his teenaged wife Maria Stegmann |
Had sixteen children and one of them had sixteen children |
And the rest had nine or ten, and some died at a young age |
But their surviving grandchildren numbered a hundred and eight |
And every single one of his sons became ministers |
In the church, |
and every one of his daughters married ministers |
And it worked, |
Andrew Murray had eight thousand descendants |
Of which five thousand are now currently livin' |
Of which only one is kickin' raps about religion |
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is natural selection |
So here’s a definition of religion: |
it’s an evolved mechanism for converting resources into descendants |
Evolved via culture through religious competitions |
And evolved in our mental architecture that’s intrinsic |
Cause our minds are designed to get religious in the right conditions |
Especially when things are fragile and your life is threatened |
See, Andrew Murray preached a sermon every Sunday |
But I be preachin' on stages myself so I can’t complain |
I’m just glad my sister and my women cousins |
Aren’t expected to have babies by the dozens and dozens |
I mean, |
Maria Stegmann could’ve had a career |
I guess she was born in the wrong year, |
poor dear |
Well her great great great great granddaughter will be brought up religion free |
Let’s see if my baby makes her decisions differently |
I got a preacher’s blood, |
but with a science brain |
So let’s take this godless revival to a higher plain |
I got a preacher’s blood, but with a science brain |
So let’s take this godless revival to a higher plain! |
But we can take our time, |
we don’t have to hurry |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |
Hand on the bible, |
no perjury to the jury |
Andrew Murray, Andrew Murray |