Southern Baptist Jew

Album: My Name Is Goldberg (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • This comedy number is about a sinner who decides to cover all the angles to ensure that when he dies he'll be certain of going to a better place, so he converts to a smorgasborg of religions. This is a typical Jessie Goldberg song; he uses the same clever device as B.A. Robertson in "Kool In The Kaftan" to allude to the Hare Krishna movement. Pity about the bleating lamb, though. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England

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