Jay's second album includes the youtube hit, the full-choir gospel rocker "Smak Dem Christians Down". Plenty of extra-crispy guitars, juicy harmonies, and out-loud lyrics.
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Playin' on My Team features ambitious, sometimes hilariously over-the-top arrangements that testify to Spears' background playing in orchestras for theatre productions. Nowhere is this more evident than on the album's rip-roaring, mercilessly-hooky closer "Smak Dem Christians Down," destined to become one of those songs queers sing along to at the top of their lungs during weekend apartment-cleaning sessions. -- Heather Kitching, eGay.com
I leave you with a typically fabulous couplet from Smak Dem Christians Down, an instant gay lib classic which should be blasted regularly from rooftops and sung at the end of dinner parties. I would also suggest that Jay Spears CDs be given out in schools with milk and cookies.
"If you wanna live in a theocracy, maybe ya
Ought to move to Saudi Arabia…"
-- Robert Farrar
Oh, save us from your people, Lord.
Oh, save us, Lord, we pray.
Oh, save us from your people, Lord.
And make 'em go away.
My mammy baptized me you bet I'm washed in the Blood of the Lamb.
But here's one thing I just don't get -- who baptized Uncle Sam?
Some folks say the USA was Christian from the start....
But was George Washington a Christian? No!
Was Thomas Jefferson a Christian? No!
Ben Franklin? No! John Adams? No!
Was Abe Lincoln a Christian? No! No! No!
They separated Church and State which makes dem Christians frown,
And on that day I'm glad to say they smacked dem Christians down!
We gotta Smack dem Christians Down,
Smack dem Christians Down,
On that day I'm glad to say they
Smacked dem Christians smaked dem Christians
Smacked dem Christians down.
My daddy hails from Alabam so the South is in my soul.
I know firsthand about Dixieland and one Christian Judge's role. He said
"God made different races and gave them homes in separate places...."
So Black folk can't marry white folk! No!
Black folk can't marry white folk!
Colored can't marry white folk! No!
Colored can't marry white folk!
Nigras can't marry white folk! No!
Nigras can't marry white folk! No!
The Supreme Court heard it all and to their great renown,
On that day I'm glad to say they smacked dem crackers down!
We gotta Smack dem Christians Down,
Smack dem Christians Down,
On that day I'm glad to say they
Smacked dem Christians smaked dem Christians
Smacked dem Christians down.
Roll up the Bill of Rights and wap! wap! wap! 'em on the head.
Keep your radical Christian agenda away from my gonadicals and my pudenda!
I wish dem whacked-out Christian fools would learn from history
Instead of tryin' to foist their bonehead rules on 'mos like me.
If you wanna live in a theocracy maybe ya oughta move to Saudi Arabia.
Is the U.S. Government Islamic? No!
Is it Buddhist? No! Is it Hindu? No!
Jewish? No! Catholic? No!
Is the U.S. Government Christian? No! No! No!
So if dem Christians don't back off we'll run 'em outta town,
And on that day I'm glad to say we'll Smack dem Christians Down!
We gotta Smack dem Christians Down,
Smack dem Christians Down,
On that day I'm glad to say we'll
Smack Dem Christians Down.
Amen.
Smack dem Christians Down!
credits
from Playin' On My Team,
released September 12, 2006
Intro sung by Kim Williams
The choir: Annie Combs, Kim Williams, Mark Herrier, Mark Harelik, Paul Hobbs, Patrick Doolin, Jay Spears, and Fred Heringes!
Sax: Jacky Klinek
Drums: Doug Smith
Words & music; guitar, bass, & vocal by Jay Spears
Native L.A. singer-songwriter Jay Spears' debut CD "BOY HOWDY" features humorous, boy-meets-boy pop tunes with titles like I
LIKE MIKE and CRYIN' OVER BRIAN.
Jay's sophomore CD "PLAYIN ON MY TEAM" includes the full-choir gospel rocker, SMAK DEM CHRISTIANS DOWN, the video for which has over 80,000 views on youtube.
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