Re: Inappropriate Songs

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Wayne Hill wrote:

> I've been following the thread on inappropriate songs and I have to say
> being a person of faith it does bother me to here boys singing songs that
> are a variation of a hymn that I have sung in worship. Some hymn tunes
> bring back very special memorys for me. The hymn may have been the

I too have a few hymns with those special memories. But I also know that
one of the more "standard" hymns was NEVER sung in our congregation
because the Elders simply forbade the minister to call it. Why? Well, I
never heard the details, but none of those men could hear that hymn without
guffawing until tears ran. NOT something they wanted to do in services,
obviously.

> favorite of a loved one that is gone or a hymn sung at a baptism. Also
> songs like "God Bless my Underwear" just seem disrespectful to not only God
> but also Country....I serviced in the Marine Corps. I'm saying this so
> you'll understand where people like me are coming from.

As contrast, some of the more irreligious and irreverent jokes I have
ever heard in my life came from clergy of various denominations. "'Twas the
Night Before Christmas, and Mary fell off the donkey" is the mildest of
'em, and the minister who told it to us got it from a Catholic Priest.
(Likewise the best dumb * joke I've heard was told, in authentic speech,
by one of those dumb *s I just wish I could remember it, but part of the
joke was his bumbling around ...)

I doubt most parodists intend to _offend_ -- amuse, startle, or tweak,
sure, but not offend.

IMO, YMMV.

Cheryl

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