When Jesus Was A Kid

WHEN JESUS WAS A KID

It’s Christmas time again D

And the mall is really weird.

Everyone gets stressed out

Christmas shopping every year. D-A7

I have to stop and wonder,

Looking at my Christmas list

When Jesus was a kid,

Would He be doing this? A7-D

I know He was a baby,

But did He ever cry?

Did Jesus wet His diapers,

Or were they always dry?

Did He use a bottle

Before He used a cup?

Did Jesus throw things on the floor

For Mary to pick up?

Did Mary ever spank him? G

Ahh, does the Bible say? D

Did Jesus scream and holler G

When things didn’t go His way? Em-A7

I know He was a baby, D

But I wonder what He did

When He was about, my age, A7

When Jesus was a kid? A7-D

Did He have birthday parties?

I like to think He might

But then I have to wonder,

Well, like, who did He invite?

Were there other kids in bathrobes

Who played tag the way we do?

Was He bummed out when His birthday gifts

Said “Merry Christmas” too!?

Did Jesus put on sunscreen,

Or did He wear a floppy hat?

Living in a desert, you can sunburn,

(snap!) Just like that!

And He prob’ly hated eating

‘Camel milk with mushy peas’

Or can Saviors just get out of

Eating gross things when They please?

N’He prob’ly hoped His Dad would let Him

Have a B-B gun

I mean His father Joseph,

You know, not the other One

It’s not like it’s a war toy,

Jesus wouldn’t hurt a flea.

And He’d never point at anyone,

He’d be as safe as me!

And if His mother found it,

She wouldn’t make a scene

She’d NEVER hide it in the attic,

No, she was NOT that mean!

He wanted “Peace On Earth”

And “Good Will” to kids

I mean He was a kid Himself,

So I’m sure He really did

We fight wars and we spill oil.

We mess up the sand.

I bet a kid like Jesus

Prob’ly wouldn’t understand

He’d see us Christmas shoppers

Trying hard to close our eyes

To the homeless people sleeping

Near expensive stuff we buy

I might be wrong,

But I’m a kid too, so I might be right

If we asked that kid Jesus,

“Is all this stuff all right?

Can we buy Christmas spirit

If we spend lots of dough?”

Well I think that kid Jesus,

Would just say “No!”

Christmas isn’t about shopping,

It’s about the way we care

It’s thinking “What would that kid Jesus