The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, "Sister Mary" from Pin Points and Gin Joints (The Last Angry Rude Boy)
Skammentary: Above, actual religious sisters! Sister Helena Burns, F.S.P. (left)—whose blog is titled Hell Burns, a play on her name & the theological reality—pictured astride a motorcycle with an unidentified fellow Daughter of Saint Paul.
"Can you remember the school in the slums?
Can you hear the trombone, the guitar, & the drums?
Sure you remember, & you know which one,
You went to the one, my son, that's run by the nun.
"Hey, Sister Mary, can you teach me the song?
While they drag him out of there in scandal & shame.
And Mister Cosmic the Slide, will you play along?
The man on the street, he couldn't handle the fame…"
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