Some go …
read by Roger Mullock
Some go to church just for the walk
Some go to stare and laugh and talk
Some go there to meet a friend
Some go for idle time to spend
Some go for general observation
Some for private speculation
Some to seek or find a lover
Some a courtship to discover
Some go there to use their eyes
And newest fashions criticise
Some to show their own smart dress
Some their neighbours to assess
Some to scan a dress of bonnet
Some to price the trimming on it
Some to learn the latest news
That friends at home they may amuse
Some to gossip, false and true
Safe within the sheltering pew
Some go there to please the Squire
Some his daughter to admire
Some the parson go to fawn
Some to lounge and some to yawn
Some to claim the parish doles
Some for bread and some for coals
Some because it’s thought genteel
Some to vaunt their pious zeal
Some to show how sweet they sing
Some how loud their voices ring
Some the preacher go to hear
His style of voice to praise, or jeer
Some their sins to varnish o’er
Some to sit and doze and nod
But few to kneel and worship God.