Rapper’s lyrics appear mistakenly on programme of one of Sri Lanka’s largest services in place of Christmas prayer 
 
 A Christmas carol service in Sri Lanka surprised churchgoers by mistakenly supplying the lyrics to the Tupac Shakur song, Hail Mary, instead of those of the traditional Christian prayer. 
 
 Pictures of the programme from Joy to the World 2016, one of Sri Lanka’s largest carol services, were shared widely across social media over the Christmas weekend. 
 
 It lists the opening lyrics to the Hail Mary, a 1,000-year old prayer based on passages from the Gospel of Luke, as: “Makaveli in this … Killuminati, all through your body. The blows like a twelve-gauge shotty.” 
 
 Jithendra Antonio (@JANTONIO) OMG! #News @Pontifex @CatholicNewsSvc DoYouKnow? SriLanka Archdiocese of #Colombo used #2pac(Hail Mary-Tupac)as a Carol in a Book #LKA @CNN pic.twitter.com/YwfXQ4TfUA 
 
 The lyrics are in fact those of a 1997 track by the rapper Tupac Shakur. 
 
 Both renditions ask Mary, venerated as the mother of Jesus, to intercede on behalf of sinners, though Tupac’s version is more exhaustive in detailing the exact sins in question, including murder and drug-dealing. 
 
 The pictures were taken by Andrew Choksy, a Colombo man who attended the service. “A lot of people around us were in shock as to whether it was a joke, or if someone would actually rap the song,” he said. 
 
 “A few of the older ladies in front of us could not stop looking at the printed booklet.” He said he sent the pictures of the programme to friends, from where they spread and eventually found their way online. 
 
 “No explanation was given [by organisers] at all,” he said. “They didn’t acknowledge it at the venue. To be honest, I don’t think many people saw the booklet at all. The people that realised were shocked at first but then took it in good humour around me,” he said. 
 
 “To be honest, I was bursting inside.” ||||| (CNN) Christmas carols aren't supposed to have lyrics like "revenge is like the sweetest joy, next to getting p***y." 
 
 But that's exactly what churchgoers in Sri Lanka saw in booklets at a carol service on December 11. 
 
 What they expected was the words to the Hail Mary, a common Christian prayer. What they got instead was the profanity-laced lyrics to rap legend Tupac Shakur's Hail Mary. 
 
 Andrew Choksy, who attended the Joy to the World service where the lyrics were distributed, said he recognized the Tupac song straight away. 
 
 A Christmas Carol service in Sri Lanka has accidentally printed the lyrics of Tupac's Hail Mary, instead of the prayer.#SriLanka #lka pic.twitter.com/djhJPAWhcj — Ravindu Thimantha G. (@IamRavindu) December 25, 2016 
 
 "A lot of people were in shock as whether it was a joke or someone would actually rap the song," he told CNN. "A few of the older ladies in front of us could not stop looking at the printed booklet." 
 
 Read More ||||| About “Hail Mary” 
 
 “Hail Mary” is in keeping with the Baroque themes of the Makaveli album, and also features some impressive verses by Pac’s little homies, the Outlawz (which is rare) 
 
 This song is said to be recorded in July 8th 1996 in 30 minutes. 
 
 The song captures 2Pac zoning out the violence and negativity surrounding him, trying to have a convo with his Spiritual Mother. 
 
 Pac wrote his verses for this song in 15 minutes and the entire song was made in 30 minutes 
 
 This song is as chilling as it is spiritual. Tupac released “Hail Mary” when he had repeated visions of himself dying in the imminent future. 
 
 The music video represents Pac (as the buried Makaveli) rising from the dead to answer the prayers of a prison inmate who was wrongfully convicted of a friend’s crime. The prisoner’s prayers are answered in the form of karma. 
 
 To see annotations on this song by the cast and author of the Broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, which tells a powerful story of today using Pac’s music, see here.
– There are many variations of Christmas carols, but worshipers in Sri Lanka were stunned to find an R-rated version of a classic prayer in their holiday program. Andrew Choksy knew immediately the "Hail Mary" he was reading with references to female genitalia, drugs, guns, and the N-word was penned by rapper Tupac Shakur. "A lot of people were in shock as whether it was a joke or someone would actually rap the song," he tells CNN. "A few of the older ladies in front of us could not stop looking at the printed booklet. Instead of "Hail Mary, full of grace, the lord is with you," Tupac's version asks the Virgin Mother, "Do you wanna ride or die? I ain’t a killer, but don’t push me. Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin’ p----." Pictures of the explicit lyrics went viral on social media, reports the Guardian. The mistake marred the Joy to the World service, an anti-poverty fundraiser, held earlier this month in Colombo's Nelum Pokuna Theater. A priest from the Colombo Archdiocese tells CNN a "young boy" erred by downloading the wrong version of the prayer in a booklet of Christmas carols. "When people looked at this page, they saw it before the start of the show," he says. "Two people saw it and alerted us to it." Tupac was killed in a still-unsolved Las Vegas shooting in 1996. He is due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year. (These rappers have a bigger vocabulary than Shakespeare.)