Re: COC Songs
Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:39 am
This thread makes me think of this video....hilarious!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16fqyp8UPaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16fqyp8UPaA
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That's why it took 40 years.Free Spirit wrote:Crawling to Zion.
That's a new one to me, and I grew up with a dad for a song leader.Ivy wrote: He arose a victor from the dark do-main
And he lives forever with his saints to reign
was changed to:
And he lives for-ever, death he over-came.
As someone who has visited a predominantly African-American Church of Christ congregation, I agree with this.zeek wrote:This is so true. I used to cringe everytime anyone would lead "We're Marching to Zion". The way it is sung it should be "We're Crawling to Zion...and We're Never Gonna Get There". CoC can turn any song, no matter the tempo, into a funeral dirge. The only exception I ever experienced to this was at the county's one African American congregation; now, they made a joyful noise when they sang.We just never seemed to be able to get the "joyful" part of "making a joyful noise" down right.
From my experiences with an AME church, even their funerals have more life in them as far as singing than most CoC's do in actual worship services.zeek wrote:This is so true. I used to cringe everytime anyone would lead "We're Marching to Zion". The way it is sung it should be "We're Crawling to Zion...and We're Never Gonna Get There". CoC can turn any song, no matter the tempo, into a funeral dirge. The only exception I ever experienced to this was at the county's one African American congregation; now, they made a joyful noise when they sang.We just never seemed to be able to get the "joyful" part of "making a joyful noise" down right.
That was Ellis J. Crum, publisher of the Sacred Selections hymnal. He went crazy with the red pen and butchered many hymns. Ironically, "Holy, Holy, Holy" and "The Gate Ajar for Me" were left with their original lyrics, and those two are altered in almost every other C of C hymnal. The main reason his hymnal was popular for a time was not really the changed lyrics, but that he included hymns that had previously been left out of the denomination's hymnals.Ivy wrote:Y'all.....do you remember how "they", not sure who in the "brotherhood", decided that a line in "He Arose" was
unscriptural??
He arose a victor from the dark do-main
And he lives forever with his saints to reign
was changed to:
And he lives for-ever, death he over-came.
This was changed because someone got a bee in the bonnet
that Jesus wouldn't reign with the saints and it was unscriptural to
sing that phrase.
When my kids got older we used to have a haunted entry. We did different things every year for many years. Because we were in a new subdivision we had 100-200 kids coming to the front door. I liked one of the first ones. I had a endless loop playing screams and the doorbell cut the speakers on the porch in when you pushed the button. In effect a screaming doorbell. My son was the body in old brown plywood coffin. Inside I had Bach Tocatta and Fugue in D minor blaring. I was wearing a dark blue suit and would open the door and ask: "Have you come to view the body?" In my most seplicural voice. The casket would open itself and Mr. Body would hand out candy. You have tone it down for toddlers. Kids are really funny. The ones that like scary stuff are 10 year old boys. The ones that scream the loudest are teenage girls. Go figure? Link is to Bach so you can enjoy some well done spooky music.JKendallDane wrote:I will probably go to hell for even thinking like this, but I can't help it because it is just funny to me.
I used to decorate for Halloween, even going so far one year to have an actual hearse parked in my front yard with a casket spilling out of the back and a body rising up from it.
Didn't "and Grace my fears relieved" have to be changed to "and Grace my fears allayed" in order to keep the rhyme?zeek wrote:The second stanza of "Amazing Grace" got reworked for the Sacred Selections hymnal. It originally said "how precious did that grace appear the hour I first believed". If memory serves me correctly in S.S. it was changed to "how precious did that grace appear when I his word obeyed". We all know that one could believe for a lifetime but not render full obedience and still be lost. I don't know why coC even sings this song as they have no concept of grace.