Date:  Wed, 8 Oct 1997 10:03:04 -0400
From:  Carol Andrus <CLAndrus[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: The Lords Prayer/Ebonics

I got this from a friend this morning, not in ADS, but I thought some of you
might find this interesting.
By the way, there is an African-American Bible, pub. by African-American
Family Press 1993, that goes (In the beginning, God created the Heavens and
the Earth, and the Earth was without form and void): Now when the Almighty
was first down with His program, He made the Heavens and the earth. The earth
was a fashion misfit, being so uncool and dark...
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From:  maryanneraphael[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]juno.com (maryanne j raphae)
To:   CLAndrus[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]aol.com
Date: 97-10-07 16:25:34 EDT

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From: tomepatterson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]juno.com (Thomas E Patterson)
To: maryanneraphael[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]juno.com
Subject: The Lords Prayer/Ebonics
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:42:43 PST
Message-ID: <19970125.164244.6782.0.tomepatterson[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]juno.com>

No doubt some Bible societies will feel compelled to publish a new
translation of the Holy Scriptures in the newly discovered language
of Ebonics.

Here's a head start for them.

  EBONICS                     ENGLISH

Big Daddy's Rap               The Lord's Prayer

Yo, Bid Daddy upstairs,           Our Father, who art in heaven

You be chillin'               Hallowed be thy name

So be yo hood                Thy Kingdom come

You be sayin' it, I be doin' it       Thy will be done

In this here hood and yo's         On earth as it is in heaven

Gimme some eats               Give us this day our daily
bread

And cut me some slack, Blood        And forgive us our trespasses

Sos I be doin' it to dem dat diss me    As we forgive those who
trespass
                                 against
us

don't be pushing me into no jive      And lead us not into
temptation

and keep dem Crips away           But deliver us from evil

'Cause you always be da Man         For thine is the Kingdom, the
power
                      and the glory, forever and
ever.

Aaa-men                   Amen







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