This one is for the Movie Title Challenge. I got "The Forty Year Old Virgin" - I have never seen the movie but believe it might be "of its time".

I got to thinking in what circumstances might there be a 40 year old virgin today and the answer came in a couplet I woke to this morning:

"Sean's mother had groomed him for the priesthood His older brother Pat would get the farm!"

The rest then just came together as Sean seemed to tell me the rest of his story himself. #ukulele

Instrument 6 String Tenor Ukulele (not a guitalele)

INTRO: (Eb) (F) (Gm)

(Gm) Sean's mother had groomed him for the priesthood His older brother Pat would get the (F) farm She thought this way she'd bought her sal(Gm)vation Her (Bb) indoctrination (C) worked on him like a (Gm) charm The (Eb) house was full of saints and cruci(Gm)fixes (Eb) Pictures of the Pope and rosary (Gm) beads (F) Mass was the glue of their com(Gm)munity Sean (Eb) thought his faith ful(F)filled all his (Gm) needs

(Gm) Father Jim guided his education Prepared him for the seminary (F) life A shy boy with few friends in ado(Gm)lescence He (Bb) never dreamed of a (C) girlfriend or a (Gm) wife His (Eb) mother beamed at his ord(Gm)ination Her (Eb) pride and his humility were (Gm) one He (F) truly believed in his (Gm) calling Temp(Eb)tations of the flesh (F) he would (Gm) shun

(Gm) A rural parish was his ideal posting In Masses, weddings, funerals he re(F)joiced Years passed before he began to (Gm) question This (Bb) path in which he'd (C) had so little (Gm) choice At (Eb) forty he was still a convinced (Gm) virgin But his (Eb) dreams were filled with his Altar Server, (Gm) Finn (F) Doubts surfaced for the first time (Gm) ever As his obs(Eb)ession sent his (F) soul in a tail (Gm) spin

(Gm) Finn seemed to fuel his unwanted passion But Sean was scared it all was in his (F) mind Till one day as the two took off their (Gm) cassocks Their (Bb) doubts and fears, (C) soon were left be(Gm)hind (Eb) Sex was a brand new reve(Gm)lation That he'd (Eb) been denied such pleasure gave him (Gm) pain The (F) floodgates of his doubts burst (Gm) open (Eb) Sean would never (F) be the same a(Gm)gain

(Gm) They both renounced positions in the priesthood With their savings bought a flat on the Catalan (F) coast Both got menial jobs, but were (Gm) happy (Bb) Living with the (C) one they loved the (Gm) most (Eb) So began their happily ever (Gm) after No (Eb) cosy lies, no doctrine of con(Gm)trol To(F)gether they at last had complete (Gm) freedom Their (Eb) mutual love (F) making them feel (Gm) whole

#movietitlechallenge #queer