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On 02/02/2011 10:51 AM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
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<pre wrap="">It was to the tune of Hotel California, but it was a Christian Christmas
song called "Hotel Can't Afford Ya" by some group called Apologetix.
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(This is a parody of Hotel California by The Eagles)<br>
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>From a dark desert highway we pulled into the inn<span
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Rome called for a census, I was from Bethlehem<span
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Up above from a distance a star was giving me light<span
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My wife was heavy ‘cause her child was due<span
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We had to stop for the night<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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So I stood in the doorway of Bethlehem hotel<span
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And I was thinking to myself "I hope to heaven they'll give me some
help"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
But they told us no-can-do and they sent me away<span
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"There's a place around the corner though where you both can stay"<span
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Welcome, but the hotel can't afford ya<span
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Such a lovely place but we're out of space<span
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Ran out of room and the hotel can't afford ya<span
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It's the time of year with the census here<span
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My wife was definitely gifted, that's what the Lord's angel said<span
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She was about to have a baby boy while still virgin<span
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Spent the night in the barnyard, cheap slumlord's rent<span
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Some night to remember, some night to forget<span
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So because of what happened I was grieving for my wife<span
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I said "They probably haven't cleaned in here since B.C. 65"<span
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Animal voices were calling for straw and hay<span
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Keeping you up through the middle of the night just as if to say…<span
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Welcome, but the hotel can't afford ya<span
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Such a lovely place, but we're out of space<span
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Holiday rush and the hotel can't afford ya<span
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What a nice surprise for your silent night<span
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He was born that evening and shepherds came that night<span
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And they said "We're all just visitors here of the Holy Christ"<span
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And in an ass's manger, they found the boy asleep<span
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They started getting teary eyed so they went back to their sheep<span
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Last thing I remember there were wise men at the door<span
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They had a bunch of packages from the place they were before<span
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"We're late," said the wise men "We had problems Christmas Eve<span
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We've been checking out your shiny light all through the Middle East</span></span><br>
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Paul Cartwright</pre>
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