“Ding-Dong! Ding-Dong!”, I’ll Sing, “Tra La La La La!”

The way they said I ought to pray, now I simply can’t,

I’d like now to chat with you and Your Name to chant.

This is how I would like now to commune with You,

I find it real great fun, and it’s very simple, too!

Sometimes I chant this Name of Yours and sometimes that,

And, sometimes, with You I just like to have a friendly chat.

This is what prayer seems now to have become for me

Since from onerous rules and rituals I am at last free.

Chanting, and chatting with You a few times every day,

Is now for me the method to follow in order to pray.

I’ll jump and dance, and will also happily sing

Paeans in honour of You, my Great King.

The old methods I followed now seem such a chore,

I just won’t pray as they said that I should anymore.

To the methods they prescribed I’ve bid final adieu,

I’ll giggle and gurgle instead and do baby-talk with You.

Oh this to way to commune with You I now find

Is thoroughly enjoyable, and light on the mind.

“Ding-dong! Ding-dong!”, I’ll sing, “Tra la la la la!”

And to that You might respond, “Hihihi! Hahaha!”