What Can You Do With A Minister? (with apologies to Irving Berlin and the movie White Christmas)

When the time was over, why, there was praise galore

For the politicians who were in the church

But for ministers things were not so grand

And it’s not so hard to understand

[Refrain:]

What can you do with a minister

When he stops being a minister?

Oh, what can you do with a minister who falls down?

Who’s got a job for a minister

When he stops being a minister?

They all get a job but a confessor no one hires

They fill his head with praises while he’s upon the stage

And they spread the crimson carpet wh...