Oh, we had one of those today, too, one I've been working on further:

Let us be pissed on earth
And let it begin with me
Let us be pissed on earth
Cause real peace will never be.

So why even bother
Behaving all brotherly?
Let us stare down each other
All homicidally.

I'm pissed, so start with me
Let hate motivate me now
Each stealthy step I take
My acts I shall disavow
To hate each group and attack each group
If it looks or thinks differently
Let us be pissed on earth
And let it beginnnnn withhhhh meeeeee!

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Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!

Love it. Always hated that one, from catholic grade-school age.

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Sn sn sn.

I can also offer Life Is The Greatest Grift Of All.

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I wasn't so much bothered by that one today - annoying but not AWFUL.

However, the stick-up-your-ass white people version of "little light of mine" made me want to DIIIIIE. Or kill someone else. Either way.

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Especially with the funeral organ.

Singing "spirituals" -- I got nothing.

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Yeah. I was really hoping for at least piano yesterday. Should have known better.

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I, every now and then, hope for sprightly.

Luckily I'm inured to disappointment.

(As a counterpoint -- I am very fond of From All The Fret And Fever Of The Day).

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Bwhahaha! I'm not clever enough to make up words to hymns on the spot like that.

Today, we were stuck singing All things Bright and Beautiful during Communion. The tenor and the bass behind us were singing falsetto and making funny noises the whole time, and I was trying not to laugh.

(Actually the bass and I are always trying to get each other to laugh during the service. We sit up front on the altar, so this is very risky business!)

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All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom.
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid--
Who made the spikey urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen.

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Oh, thank you, thank you.... I'll pass it on to the boys!

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It's Monty Python, of course. I just realized I left off the attribution.

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Ben Franklin would be so Proud!

(I refer to his advice to "Fart Proudly!," of course.)

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I pootle a tune in his honor!

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I habitually skip church the Sunday closest to MLK day. To a music lover (and someone who remembers seeing "Whites Only" signs as a child) there are few things more offensive than a roomful of aging, Yankee Episcopalians trying to sing spirituals.

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Oh God... Do NOT go to St. John's in Arlington. They use Lift Every Voice and Sing, as well as Wonder, Love and Praise, more than the 1982 Hymnal. Every two weeks, they have "Jazz at St. John's" because the rector wants it. The congo sing like wimps, if they sing at all.

(Funny how they couldn't "afford" to pay me to sing, yet they can afford an entire jazz group. When I discovered I had been lied to, I left. Pity, because most of the people there are very nice indeed.)

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Lift Every Voice and Sing always reminds me of what would have happened if Lawrence Welk did the arrangements for Aretha Franklin.

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LEVAs and WLP meed to be banned. Immediately. Even the 1982 Hymnal is better by comparison. I could do without the stupid boring Rutter canticle which replaces the Gloria. That's lame. The settings of the Schubert Mass are transposed too damned low, too. They also need to remove Onward Christian Soldiers and similar items.

The rector at St. John's -- who is utterly unmusical, and who runs roughshod over the remains of the music program there -- once told me he is trying to get himself onto the committee that puts together the next 'official' hymnal. Oh. Dear.

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A still pot they got
and they brewed heeland whiskey

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Ha! I always though it was "heathen whiskey"!

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My English grandfather would have said there was no difference!
Examine the Irishman, Welshman or Scot
You'll find he's a stinker as likely as not.

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Yeah, I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.

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Lordisa Mia I want you to come visit our UU. :D




By the way, I agree, lots of those hymns are so fruity they make my teeth ache just readin' em. And I'm supposed to try to use one song from the hymnal per service, but let's just say I only get around to using a song from the hymnal once every third or so.




and by the way, 'pooting' connotes something different to me than maybe it means to you. but hey....whatever gets the blood a-flowin is all good by me. ;p

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more people need to see this. may i linky in my journal?

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Of course you may! Spread the subversion around! ;)

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Pooting and pooping are quite different. (One might hope). You might pass pooting off as a woodwind.

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*blink*

*blink blink*

If nothing else, I can report that I'm underequiped for a recital.

(You people think of the damndest things!)

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Let us worship with the Druids
They drink fermented fluids
Waltzing naked through the woo-ids
And it's good enough for me.

Give me that Old Time Religion
That Old Time Religion
Give me that Old Time Religion
It's good enough for me.



For something truly horrible the Episcopal Diocese is pushing a U2Charist and Hip Hop services.

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Hiphop Episcopalians ???

May all the saints reserve us!

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Imagine how the trust funds are invested!

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oh jeeez i'm gonna be singin that all day now. ;D

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Do you remember all the verses?

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You mean the original? I know it from the gospel choir I used to sing with, and we always started it "It was good enough for Mother..." and do it zipper-style from there (meaning people would each add their own improvised verses).


But I did find this if the original-original is what you want.


I love your Druids version though, must say. ;D

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Let us pray with Zarathustra
Let us pray just like we usta
I'm a Zarathutra Booster
And it's good enough for me.

Let us pray with those Egyptians
Build pyramids to put our crypts in
Cover subways with inscriptions
And it's good enough for me

I like to pray with Aphrodite
I like to pray with Aphrodite
She wears that see-through nightie
And it's good enough for me.

Hari Krishna he must laugh on
To see me dressed in saffron
With my hair that's only half on
And it's good enough for me.

I stole it from Pete Seeger. Don't know who he stole it from. Enjoy

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Zarathustra?

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Here.


Nice! Thanks! ;D

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Ah, you have the "Lynching singalong" version!

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