Evolving Thoughts

People Get Ready

People get ready
There’s a bus a’comin’
Don’t need no deity
Just get on board
Won’t hurt believers
If you can’t hear God’s mummery
You’ll still need a ticket
From the Transport Board

People get ready
For the bus to show you
All people are passengers
From coast to coast
Citizenship’s the key
For the doors of freedom
There’s room for all
Among the secular host

There’s plenty of room
For those you call sinners
They’re still part of humanity
To each his own
Have pity on those
Whose minds are narrow
Cause there’s no real place
Where theocracy’s at home

So people get ready
There’s a bus a’comin’
Don’t need no deity
Just get on board
Won’t hurt believers
If you can’t hear God’s mummery
You’ll still need a ticket
From the Transport Board

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Comments (13)

  1. That song evokes the 60’s, so maybe the bus could be painted in psychedelic colors and dubbed “The Magical Rational Tour”. Just a thought.

  2. That song evokes the 60’s, so maybe the bus could be painted in psychedelic colors and dubbed “The Magical Rational Tour”. Just a thought.

  3. Pfff, Citizens only, huh? Others are not welcome in your exclusive circle, huh. Citizenship should not be the key to freedom…. it can’t be, since it can be revoked at any time. Also, you have no power to get it, you can only be given it. Doesn’t sound like freedom to me.
    You saying there should be a class of people that shouldn’t get any freedom because the govnmn’t said so?

  4. I see tom cruise’s new film is a bit of a biopic. Wonder why he got a hitler lookalike to play hubbard.

  5. Jeff Beck did it? I first heard it in the early 70s. I can’t remember who, but it stuck even before Rod Stewart did it. [Later note: It’s a Curtis Mayfield song done by the Impressions in 1965.]
    George – allow me some artistic license. I meant just that one is included in virtue of being part of the society. Couldn’t find a more inclusive term. Everybody’s a critic. “Citizen” once meant “member of the city”…

  6. Jeff Beck did it? I first heard it in the early 70s. I can’t remember who, but it stuck even before Rod Stewart did it. [Later note: It’s a Curtis Mayfield song done by the Impressions in 1965.]
    George – allow me some artistic license. I meant just that one is included in virtue of being part of the society. Couldn’t find a more inclusive term. Everybody’s a critic. “Citizen” once meant “member of the city”…

  9. So vegetarian drivers refuse to staff buses advertising Steve’s Scrumptious Sausages? Jehovah’s Witnesses nix assignments when the message promotes the Red Cross? Scientologists will not drive when SSRI ads mar the bussy goodness?

  12. I have a live bootleg of the Jeff Beck-Jan Hammer Band (with Simon Phillips on drums, Doug Wimbish on bass and Jimmy Hall? on vocals) recorded live in 1986 which also has People Get Ready as one of the encores featuring both Steve Luthaker and Carlos Santana on guitars. It Rocks!
    If you get a chance, go and see the current Jeff Beck Band they are awesome. The bass player is a disgustingly young Australian lady who plays like a goddess.

  13. I have a live bootleg of the Jeff Beck-Jan Hammer Band (with Simon Phillips on drums, Doug Wimbish on bass and Jimmy Hall? on vocals) recorded live in 1986 which also has People Get Ready as one of the encores featuring both Steve Luthaker and Carlos Santana on guitars. It Rocks!
    If you get a chance, go and see the current Jeff Beck Band they are awesome. The bass player is a disgustingly young Australian lady who plays like a goddess.

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