EZEKIEL SAW THE WHEEL

EZEKIEL SAW THE WHEEL

Even though I am a freethinker, this spiritual, especially when sung by a choir, attracts me when it is sung by an adult choir... perchance 'cuz it describes the Merkava vision, which, IMOHO, was an alien spacecraft. And there's nothing like an old sacred chorus to set the mood for a close encounter of the third kind... This is my own version of the song, 'cuz, like any good folk song (or folktale, or joke), there are oodles of different versions:

Ezekiel saw the wheel
way up in the middle of the air,
Ezekiel saw the wheel
way up in the middle of the air...

The big wheel run by faith
and the li'l wheel run by the grace of G*d,
a wheel within a wheel
way up in the middle of the air...

And who are these children to the right,
way up in the middle of the air?
They are the children of the light,
way up in the middle of the air...

The big wheel run by faith
and the li'l wheel run by the grace of G*d,
a wheel within a wheel
way up in the middle of the air...

And who are those children to the left,
way up in the middle of the air?
They are the children of hope bereft,
way up in the middle of the air...

The big wheel run by faith
and the li'l wheel run by the grace of G*d,
a wheel within a wheel
way up in the middle of the air...


Speaking of Ezekiel and spirituals, maybe some day I will do the mastodontic project of Dem Bones: the Accurate Version. The one with every single freaking human bone in it. The way it sounds. Hank Green already began on the first verse, then gave up. Someday I will finish his endeavour:

Ezekiel connected them dry bones,
Ezekiel connected them dry bones,
Ezekiel connected them dry bones,
now hear the word of the LORD...

The distal phalanx is connected to the middle phalanx,
the middle phalanx is connected to the proximal phalanx,
the proximal phalanx is connected to the metatarsals,
now hear the word of the LORD...

The metatarsals are connected to the tarsals...