Sunday Best
Just what is it with trilbies and churches ?
Men must remove theirs, but women’s stay put.
Indeed, why does Paul say that women must cover ?
Is God so upset by each bare-headed mother ?
Men, shed your turbans ! Your masking besmirches !
At least He allows still a shoe on each foot !
(Though women are free from such moaning and wails
To sport wedding bonnets and funeral veils.)
Just what is it with stetsons and churches ?
We might as well dress-down in sackcloth and soots
Than decked-out in finery, mumbling our prayers,
While tutting at any bloke hiding his hairs.
Men, lose your skull-caps ! Such hattery lurches
To thinking you’re working upon your kibbutz –
For men who wear hats are not resters, but grafters –
So the Lord wants your locks flowing free to the rafters.
Just what is it with bowlers and churches ?
Men’s heads are open, but women’s are shut.
How much of an insult is headgear undoffed ?
Does God rage in Heaven at brims left aloft ?
Men, ditch your toupees ! Our scriptural researches
Show bald-pate Elisha is nobody’s butt !
Or do we use ‘etiquette’ as a hypocrisy ?
That doesn’t sound like good manners to me !
I hope the hatted women in church also keep silent throughout, just as 1st Cor 14:34 says to.
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