Seeking You shall find
Knock and the door shall be opened
Ask and it shall be given
When the love come tum
bling down
Sneaking you shall find,
knock and the door shall be opened high,
and it shall be given
when the love come tumbling down.
There was once a king
in the olden days.
He had three sons,
and he wanted to give them
a good education.
He called in his wise men,
and he said, I wish you'd boil down
all the world's wisdom
into one book,
and I'm going to give it to my sons
and have them learn it.
So the wise men went away,
took them a whole year,
and they came back with a beautiful leather
-bound volume trimmed in gold.
The king leafed through it,
hmm, very good, hmm, yes, this is it.
And he gives it to his sons
and said, OK, learn it.
Then he turned to the wise men.
He said, you know, you did such
a good job with that.
I wonder if you couldn't boil down
all the world's wisdom
into one sentence.
Well, the wise men went away.
It took them five years.
When they came back,
their beards must have
been dragging on the ground.
They said, your majesty,
we have decided upon a sentence.
What is it, says the king?
this too shall pass.
I guess the king didn't have anything
better to do with his wise men.
He said, wonder if you couldn't boil down
all the world's wisdom
into one word.
Poor men must have groaned.
They went away.
It took him ten years.
When they came back,
they're all bent over.
The king said, oh yes, what was
that word?
He'd forgotten all
about his little whim.
He said, your majesty, the
One word is maybe.
Seek and you shall find.
Knock and the door shall be opened.
Ask and it shall be given
when the love come tumbling down.
There was another king
in another country
in the olden days.
He was sitting in his palace one day.
and a messenger came,
your majesty, your majesty,
a sea captain has landed on your coast
and in the hold of his vessel
is a strange animal called an elephant.
Well, the king was
busy enjoying himself.
He said to his wise men, he said,
I wish you'd go down
and bring me back a report.
So the wise men got in the carriages
and they were all taken down
to the coast
and they went on board the ship.
But you know, they'd all been reading books so long,
they were blind as bats.
And the first wise men,
he felt the leg of the elephant,
and he says, hmm.
The next one feels the side
of the elephant,
hmm, says he.
The next one felt the ear of the elephant,
hmm, says he.
The next one felt the tusk
of the elephant,
and the next one felt the trunk,
and the last one pulled on the tail.
Well, they all got back in the carriages,
and they all went back to the king.
The king says, now,
what manner of beast
is this elephant?
And the first wise man bowed low
and said, your majesty,
this elephant is very like unto the
trunk of a small tree.
You're completely wrong,
said the next one.
I spelt it myself.
It's like the side of a building.
Oh, you're both wrong,
says the third.
It's like a big leaf of a large plant.
The third says, no, no, no,
you're all wrong.
It's like a smooth spear.
No, no, no, says the next.
It's like a big snake.
And the last one says, your majesty,
you know I'm right.
It's like a rope hanging
down from heaven.
You pull on it,
and the heavens open up with waste.
See, and you shall find, knock,
and the door shall be
I got a story about two little maggots,
you know, little worms.
They were sitting on
the handle of a shovel.
The shovel was in a workshop
and early in the morning a workman came,
put the shovel on his shoulder
and started down the street to work.
Well, the two little maggots
held on as long as they could,
but finally they jiggled off
and one fell down
into a crack in the sidewalk
and the next fell off onto the curb
and from the curb
he fell into a cat, a very dead cat.
Well, the second maggot
just started in eating
and he ate and he ate and he ate
for three days.
He couldn't eat anymore.
He finally said,
I think I'll go hunt up my brother.
And the second maggot humped
himself up over the curb,
humped along the sidewalk,
came to the crack, he leaned and said,
hello, you down there, brother?
Yes, I'm down here all right.
I've been here for three days
without a bite to eat
or a drop to drink,
I'm nearly starved to death.
but you you're so sleek and fat
do what do you attribute your success
brains and personality
brother brains and personality
I got one more story it's
about Columbus
Christopher Columbus
1492 sailed the ocean blue
and all that 40 days and 40
nights
and they almost starved
to death
and almost had a mutiny
and they were ready to
give up and go home
when they saw land green land
Columbus ordered the little boat
to anchor offshore
and he got into a still smaller boat,
a little lifeboat, I guess,
and he went in through the surf,
threw himself on his knees in the sand.
Then he planted the big
yellow and red flag
of King Ferdinand and Isabella.
Then looking up,
Columbus saw two brown faces
looking at him from the bushes.
Columbus says, Buenos dias, senoras!
And one Indian said to the other,
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Seek and you shall find
Knock and the door shall be opened
An d it shall be good
When the love comes a -thundering
Yeah, seek, seek,
seek and you shall find
The lock and the door shall be opened
Ask and it shall be given
When the lock comes tumbling down
