Re: [Worship] RE:

["David Mize, Sr." <dmizesr@zoomnet.net>]

How about the famous hymn "Lead On O Kinky Turtle"?  I'll let you all figure
that one out.

DWM

-----Original Message-----
From: Laurie Freymann <Laurie.Freymann@Boxlight.com>
To: 'David Stone' <dstone@chem.utoronto.ca>; Worship List
<worship@praise.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 11:43 AM
Subject: [Worship] RE:


>How about "We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise"?  I can't sing that song
>without hearing my kids singing "We bring a sack-lunch just in case the
>sermon goes way too long!"  And in the chorus of "The Righteous Cry
>Out," someone in our team once sang, "And the Lord will deliver me out
>of the mall" (instead of "them all").  And "All Nations" became
>"Dalmations!"
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Stone [SMTP:dstone@chem.utoronto.ca]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 5:18 AM
>> To: Worship List
>> Subject:
>>
>> Fred Rich wrote:
>> >Also worth noting for its musical quality is Graham Kendrick's "All I
>> once
>> >held dear", afectionately known in some English quarters by the title
>> "The
>> >ugly duckling song", because of the choruses strong resemblance to
>> that
>> >very song, "There once was an ugly duckling" - in particular the "and
>> he
>> >went with a waddle..."
>> >
>>
>> Drat!  I really wish you hadn't posted that - now I'M stuck with the
>> association too!  Word associations are also dangerous.  One of mine
>> is "Great things He has tortoise, great things He has done". Another
>> is "Come for tea, come for tea my people" (Comfort Ye....)
>>
>> As far as "weak vs strong" is concerned, I think you do have to use
>> some
>> discretion.  And it isn't only theological considerations either -
>> lyrical
>> and melodic content is important.  There is one song in the original
>> "Songs Of Fellowship" vol. 2 that raises my hackles this way...
>>
>>   "I love a celebration and the sound of jubilation...."
>>
>> or words to that effect.  Anyway, every line ends in "_ation" which I
>> find too hokey for words.  Of course, someone will come along and say
>> that they think it's really neat (someone had to have liked it enough
>> to put it in SOF in the first place) but I personally would rather
>> not hear it.
>>
>> To each his own...
>>
>> Dave Stone
>>
>>
>>
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