Missionary Man
Popestar
2016
Duration: 3:42
Track number: 4
Times played live: 0
Writers
Lyrics by: Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart
Music by: Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart
Theme
Ghost's wackiest cover transforms Eurythmics' new wave classic into a swaggering, guitar-heavy reimagining. With stacked guitars, Papa Emeritus III's nasal snark, a female backup vocalist, raucous harmonica, and retained swing, the track becomes a theatrical sermon on missionary zeal and evangelical fervor—Ghost turning corporate pop into a provocative statement on religious zealotry.
Lyrics
Well I was born an original sinner.
I was borne from original sin.
And if I had a dollar bill
For all the things I've done
There'd be a mountain of money
Piled up to my chin...
My mother told me good
My mother told me strong.
She said "be true to yourself
And you can't go wrong."
"But there's just one thing
That you must understand."
"You can fool with your brother -
But don't mess with a missionary man."
Don't mess with a missionary man.
Don't mess with a missionary man.
Well the missionary man
He's got God on his side.
He's got the saints and apostles
Backin' up from behind.
Black eyed looks from those Bible books.
He's a man with a mission
Got a serious mind.
There was a woman in the jungle
And a monkey on a tree.
The missionary man he was followin' me.
He said "stop what you're doing."
"Get down upon your knees."
"I've got a message for you that you better believe."
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