I have a doctor’s appointment this morning, which I really hate as a waste of time, have to play catch-up all day…
Meanwhile, what do you get when you take a Caribbean folk hymn and transfer it to some cold, grey islands in the Irish Sea?
You get this awesome rendition of Oh, Sinner Man–one of my favorites.
With seals, no less. (Would you believe we sang this in junior high school? Times have NOT changed for the better!)
Would you believe we used to sing this in junior high school–O, Sinner Man, Where You Gonna Run To?
Take a Caribbean spiritual, move it to the northern reaches of the Irish Sea, add a few seals… and you can see that this hymn is a message to us all, wherever we may be.
You have to click “Watch on YouTube” to see this video, but it’s worth the extra effort.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit, two national treasures for the price of one: Mahalia Jackson on Nat King Cole’s TV show in 1957, singing Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho.
Would you believe we used to sing this in junior high school? Times change–and not for the better.
Here’s a classic spiritual, requested by Phoebe–We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder, sung by Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Would you believe we used to sing these in public school? It’s true: big, big difference between then and now.
The wisdom of this world is blowing up in our faces, our so-called leaders can’t handle it, and I just can’t bear to write about it just now. The lyric is right: We shoulda been a-prayin’.
Our only refuge is in the name of the Lord.
Let’s here O, Sinner Man–sung amid the cold, cold waters of the sea around Scotland.
We used to sing this at Y camp, of all places.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit, Go Down, Moses–and who better to sing it than Louis Armstrong?
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No one’s quite sure when this video was made, but most estimates hover around 1946–and I don’t think we get music like this anymore. The Jubalaires’ harmony is used to celebrate Noah and the Ark–and God’s mercy.
This is a joyful song made unto the Lord.
I’m not normally up this early, and I’m sure I’ll pay for it later.
I love this rendition of O, Sinner Man–a West Indian spiritual transported to the cold waters of Scotland and played on a mandolin. But of course the hymn’s real message is in the lyrics.
No hymn requests came in yesterday, so I had to resort to my favorites. This is one of them: a Caribbean spiritual, Oh, Sinner Man, transported to the cold waters off Scotland–and it’s wonderful.
Here’s another one we used to sing in school before the Supreme Court decided that America’s children have to be protected from Jesus Christ. It’s only gotten worse since then.
Every Time I Feel the Spirit–sung by Nat King Cole with the First Church of Deliverance Choir.