Can I call this a hymn? Well, why not?
Requested by Ina, Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat, sung by Louis Armstrong. It comes from Guys and Dolls, and not from any hymnal. But the message of the song is Biblical–so again, why not?
Tag: Guys and Dolls
By Request–Another Dream!
Honest, Phoebe and I did not consult about this first. But these odd little coincidences happen around here more often than you might expect.
I write of a dream about going to Hell; and Phoebe requests this from the 1955 production of Guys and Dolls–a song about going to Heaven. They make a nice pair of bookends, don’t they?
So we have Stubby Kaye singing Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat… Additional hint: If you find yourself on a boat going to Heaven, throw your dice overboard; don’t try to start a crap game.
By Request: ‘Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat’
I was going to post this request by Phoebe tomorrow; but then I thought, “Why wait?” Hey, it’s a song (from Guys and Dolls) about a conversion experience–and the Lord knows we need as many of those as we can get!
So here’s Clive Rowe, as Nicely-Nicely, singing Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat. “I dreamed last night I got on a boat to Heaven…” and then he dreamed a wave washed him off the boat and the Devil dragged him down: a dream that scared him into cleaning up his life.
The Holy Spirit has many ways of speaking to us. He can even use a Broadway musical to get His point across.