GPS (Case of the Missing Jesus)

This Year's Christmas offering is a song I first conceived about six years ago but finally can deliver to the world. A story about baby Jesus being stolen from a town Nativity inspired it. I kept with my original vision of a folk style song with Southern Gospel harmonies. It's available for download as a single at CD Baby or as part of my Christmas album "Kresh" at Noisetrade.

Mary and Joseph and shepherds
in a stable with cows and sheep near
while a baby lays in the straw
He's the fourth one we put out this year
Some vandal keeps stealing our Jesus
from the manger in our city square
to keep our Navidad feliz
our chief of police
vowed to solve the caper this year

We put a GPS in our baby Jesus
for the next time they steal Him in the night
the Wise Men followed a star to find Him
but we'll have three satellites

Just after one in the morning
the burgler appeared in the park
we watched on the security camera
to see who was lurking in the dark
the thief who was dressed up like Santa
threw baby Jesus on a sled
to keep our Noel joyeux
our officers pursued
the beacon in the baby's head

We put a GPS in our baby Jesus
for the next time they steal Him in the night
the Wise Men followed a star to find Him
but we'll have three satellites

The blip on the screen stopped moving
our SWAT team converged on the spot
they found a stash of Jesuses (or Jesi?)
in a van behind the old Dairy mart
But we never caught the perpetrator
though we solved the mysterious theft
we kept out Natale buon
though the suspect is gone
baby Jesus is back in the creche

We put a GPS in our baby Jesus
now everything is alright
the Wise Men followed a star to find Him
but we'll have three satellites
We put a GPS in our baby Jesus
Merry Christmas to all and goodnight

© 2014 David Samuel Thomas