No more decoration No more piss Christs Or donkey shit virgins In the next life No more tax on hard-working citizens To finance these abominations
O the shakers from Shakerville are here Quakers and puritans appear Smiting Sodomites with a mighty rod Bringing Protestant art direct from God
A gallery like a church Woods of pine and birch A protestant artist is at work Improving minds And through the wood An icy wind whistles through the pines
The lord is coming down now, we must show How we've been investing, if we've reached his goals You never know tomorrow may be your tax control The Lord is an accountant, an accountant of souls Don't practice deceit, keep your receipts, keep your receipts
For the shakers from Shakerville are here Quakers and puritans appear Smiting Sodomites with a mighty rod Bringing Protestant art direct from God
The seamstress is making a little girl's dress She stitches the seams with little grey threads Frigid and severe, she sits and sighs She's got a grey room, she's got grey eyes
O the shakers from Shakerville are here Quakers and puritans appear With a righteous heart they go before To bring Sodomites and art within God's law
Oh the shakers from Shakerville are here Quakers and puritans appear Spouting gibberish at Sodomites they meet Righteous with the arrogance of the meek
Are you justified, are you qualified What's your salary, will you pass the gates of God's great art gallery when you've died I've seen what's in your diary Can you honestly tell me you are perfectly normal?
The lord is coming down but I don't care You'll never break my spirit, you'll never raise my hair Human creativity is all right by me Ron Athey, Chris Offili, Karen Finlay
But the shakers from Shakerville are here Quakers and puritans appear Invincible for God is at their side Their maker, art critic and guide
Oh the puritans are marching bravely on Keeping America strong Smiting Sodomites with a mighty rod Bringing Protestant art direct from God Invincible for God is at their side Their maker, art critic and guide