You Say Sheol, I Say Gehenna, Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

   After recently watching a YouTube episode of EWTN-Today with Father Mitch and Dr. Scott Hahn, wherein they discussed the Romanist doctrine of Purgatory (to which, I'll be honest, I do see their "kingdom of the left & heartfelt human reasoning" yearnings to answer the crux theologorum; especially for infants who die).  Nonetheless, Samuel Langhorne Clemens' famous "imp of the perverse" immediately struck me and I composed the song (below) and have been singing it ever since.
   As no Catholic friends of mine know about this blog (and only 1 or 2 Lutherans) I give you without any apologies:

HOT TO HOT

Words: Jay W. Watson 2013

Song: Cheek to Cheek by Irving Berlin

Sung by Fred Astaire to Ginger Rogers in 1935’s Top Hat

 

Hades, I’m in Hades

And it’s not the hell I thought the Bible taught

And I guess I’ve got the purgation I ought

When we’re in together burning hot so hot

Hades, I’m in Hades

And the sins that hung around me in my lot

Seem to simmer like a steaming burning pot

When we’re in together melting off the rot

Yes I’d like to end this hurtin’

And reach the heaven sought

But it doesn’t thrill me half as much

As smoking sins I’ve got

Sure I’d love to be out soaring

In a “mansion” He has bought

But I don’t deserve such Grace that’s free

As dotting every jot

[Come on and] fry with me

Keep praying those Rosaries

Indulgences for me

To extinguish me

[Right free] of Hades, I’m in Hades

But the Pope still wants drained every last cup’s draught

While it seems forever burning here I’ve got

Though it’s only temporary, but status mediary

In together burning hot so hot