[Verse 1] From Oxford town, a thoughtful man, He looked at life with open eyes, Lewis said We meet no ordinary people in our lives! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Lewis, sharp and clear! He banished doubt, he calmed the fear! Heave ho, through Narnian woods we roam, His wisdom guides us safely home! [Verse 2] The years may pass, the hair turn grey, But wonder waits for us anew, Lewis said Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Lewis, sharp and clear! He banished doubt, he calmed the fear! Heave ho, through Narnian woods we roam, His wisdom guides us safely home! [Verse 3] He spoke of Christ, no teacher mild, But God Himself or something worse! Lewis said I'm trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God... Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Lewis, sharp and clear! He banished doubt, he calmed the fear! Heave ho, through Narnian woods we roam, His wisdom guides us safely home! [Verse 4] What value has a loyal friend? Lewis said Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival! Forgive, as God your soul forgave! Lewis said To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you! And cleverness without the good? Lewis said Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil! [Chorus] Heave ho, for Lewis, sharp and clear! He banished doubt, he calmed the fear! Heave ho, through Narnian woods we roam, His wisdom guides us safely home!
