Now then, what makes a nation strong? Taxes? (Heh)
There’s nothing new about those either, the first income tax was paid by Abraham
It was written on a rock by the hand of Divinity and handed to Moses at the top of Mount Sinai and you might want to remember this, it was at the flat rate of 10%
It promised the wrath of God on anybody who tampered with or violated that law
Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way to pay his taxes
Joseph was a relatively well-to do landowner
Yet the taxes exacted by Caesar Augustus were so exorbitant that he didn’t have enough money left over to employ a trusted messenger for the mission so, though his wife was great with child, he made the journey himself
(Journey himself)
(Bucko)
And Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way to pay his taxes
And Christ was born in a manger because there was a housing shortage when he got there
Our problems are not new
[Chorus]
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new
There’s nothing new about those either, the first income tax was paid by Abraham
It was written on a rock by the hand of Divinity and handed to Moses at the top of Mount Sinai and you might want to remember this, it was at the flat rate of 10%
It promised the wrath of God on anybody who tampered with or violated that law
Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way to pay his taxes
Joseph was a relatively well-to do landowner
Yet the taxes exacted by Caesar Augustus were so exorbitant that he didn’t have enough money left over to employ a trusted messenger for the mission so, though his wife was great with child, he made the journey himself
(Journey himself)
(Bucko)
And Christ was born in Bethlehem because Joseph was on his way to pay his taxes
And Christ was born in a manger because there was a housing shortage when he got there
Our problems are not new
[Chorus]
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new
Christ was born in a manger
Because there was a housing shortage
Our problems are not new