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DangerousDeacon
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Have recently come across some music to be used in a service (not at my parish) which has a distinct double-entendre. Those of a more innocent mind than me simply cannot see the double-entendre: but others see it as soon as the words are read out and break into laughter. I fear that the service could be disrupted by this.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? How did you deal with it?
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I don't usually hang out in Eccles, so I don't know the rules on posting something like that, but...care to share?
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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When I was at college, the second verse of this Marian hymn caused much snickering and giggling in chapel. You see, the particular fruit referred to in the second half of the verse is apparently (in some circles) slang for a certain part of the male anatomy.
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Pigwidgeon
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Go, labor on; spend, and be spent has the memorable last verse: quote:
Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice, the midnight peal, "Behold, I come!"
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Surely the classic is:
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Originally written by someone more innocent than I
Jesus take me as I am
I can come no other way
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Enoch
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Go, labor on; spend, and be spent has the memorable last verse: quote:
Soon shalt thou hear the Bridegroom's voice, the midnight peal, "Behold, I come!"
Another one that I suspect is not sung much these days, starts with the words,
quote:
Behold the Bridegroom cometh in the middle of the night,
And blest is he whose loins are girt, whose lamp is burning bright;
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Offeiriad
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The wonderful old processional hymn 'Jerusalem, my happy home' used to amuse our choir with the line:
Our Lady sings Magnificat with tune surpassing sweet,
and all the virgins bear their parts, sitting around her seat.
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chris stiles
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Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
Surely the classic is:
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Originally written by someone more innocent than I
Jesus take me as I am
I can come no other way
On a similar note, at one point during the 'March for Jesus' era - it was common for the Chris Bowater song 'This is a mystery' to be sung by the marchers, which included the chorus:
quote:
Let the Bride say ‘Come’
Let the bride say ‘Come’
Let the bride of the Lamb say ‘Come Lord Jesus ‘
Which led to much snickering on the part of onlookers.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Lord you put a tongue in my mouth
Fnarr fnarr hyuck hyuck kersnip kersnip arf arf!
[ 22. September 2015, 11:22: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]
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L'organist
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Enoch I remember that hymn - it was number 3 in the old English Hymnal and caused much hilarity among trebles in my youth.
But then younger trebles are easily amused: the line Where are ye all, ye virgins wise? was also the cause of much sniggering.
The best, mainly because of an unfamiliar word, was the fourth verse of Come, thou Holy Paraclete quote:
What is soiled, make thou pure;
What is wounded, work its cure;
What is parched fructify;
What is rigid, gently bend;
What is frozen, warmly tend;
Straighten what goes erringly.
In the choir at home pay was deducted from anyone who corpsed; at school, detentions were given out.
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Leorning Cniht
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When I was a small schoolboy in the company of other small schoolboys, we used to find it hard enough to get through the final verse of Dear Lord and Father of mankind without a snigger.
"Breathe through the heats of our desire" was sufficient to cause a wave of titters. We wouldn't have stood a chance with "Behold the Bridegroom cometh."
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Enoch
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It's not a classic double entendre, as the other meaning isn't crude, but there's also a hymn that starts with the line,
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"Pierce my ear, O Lord, my God"
It's inspired by scripture, Ex 21:1-6. But that doesn't let the writer off the charge of not having quite enough imagination for the job.
I've never heard it sung, but it was in some songbooks. Here should be a video of it.
Has any Shipmate actually heard it sung, or even sung it themselves?
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HCH
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I believe that an old Protestant hymn refers to "between the sheaves", often amended by mischievous boys to "between the sheets".
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by Enoch:
It's not a classic double entendre, as the other meaning isn't crude, but there's also a hymn that starts with the line,
quote:
"Pierce my ear, O Lord, my God"
It's inspired by scripture, Ex 21:1-6. But that doesn't let the writer off the charge of not having quite enough imagination for the job.
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Has any Shipmate actually heard it sung, or even sung it themselves?
Yes indeed. It was a favourite of our Youth Group for a while when I was a teenager (many years ago). The meaning was explained to us when we first sang it, and I don't remember it raising any more than the odd smile after that. We didn't sing 'Take me to your door...', if I remember correctly, but 'Take me to your home...'
We were far more entertained by 'You shall go out with joy', where one of the lads could always be heard stage whispering 'Who's Joy?'
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Drifting Star
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Originally posted by Drifting Star:
quote:
Originally posted by Enoch:
It's not a classic double entendre, as the other meaning isn't crude, but there's also a hymn that starts with the line,
quote:
"Pierce my ear, O Lord, my God"
It's inspired by scripture, Ex 21:1-6. But that doesn't let the writer off the charge of not having quite enough imagination for the job.
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Has any Shipmate actually heard it sung, or even sung it themselves?
Yes indeed. It was a favourite of our Youth Group for a while when I was a teenager (many years ago). The meaning was explained to us when we first sang it, and I don't remember it raising any more than the odd smile after that. We didn't sing 'Take me to your door...', if I remember correctly, but 'Take me to your home...'
Just to add that the idea of serving God through choice was all that we heard - we gave no thought at all to the issue of slavery that underpinned the lyrics.
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georgiaboy
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The wife of our former Dean suggested that 'There's a Wideness in God's Mercy' was appropriate for Feast of the Circumcision, as it contained the line
'There is joy for all the members in the sorrows of the Head.'
In the Hymnal 1940 is was set to 'Beecher' which made it even worse.
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Fr Weber
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The Alleluia verse for Trinity 20 is taken from Psalm 108. The first time I ever had to sing it, it took me a bit by surprise as I was expected to respond to the versicle with "I will sing and give praise with the best member that I have."
Especially since the other choristers were giggling, damn them.
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'And then there is the story about the child who wanted to meet the vision impaired club named "Gladly'."
"gladly the cross I'd bear>"
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It took many years of practicing self control for me to sing hymns mentioning the human breast without a snigger.
I really have to try hard not to look at anyone otherwise I would still get uncontrollable giggles.
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Enoch
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Originally posted by Fr Weber:
The Alleluia verse for Trinity 20 is taken from Psalm 108. The first time I ever had to sing it, it took me a bit by surprise as I was expected to respond to the versicle with "I will sing and give praise with the best member that I have."
Especially since the other choristers were giggling, damn them.
How many members have you got? Is your best one for Sundays only?
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Gill H
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It was 'take me to your throne this day' as I recall.
No-one's mentioned the Ship favourite "Your love is amazing" yet?
Your love is surprising, I can feel it rising...
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Gracious rebel
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
quote:
Originally posted by Cottontail:
[QUOTE] Out of my bondage, sorrow, and night,
Jesus, I come! Jesus, I come!
Don't we have a private board for that?
I think the name of the private board comes from this hymn in particular the line quote:
Your bondage is freedom; your service is song;
I had never heard of this hymn until I joined my present church, and there was a definite 'aha' moment for me the first time I sung it, when I suddenly realised just WHY our private board is so named!
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Fr Weber
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quote:
Originally posted by Enoch:
quote:
Originally posted by Fr Weber:
The Alleluia verse for Trinity 20 is taken from Psalm 108. The first time I ever had to sing it, it took me a bit by surprise as I was expected to respond to the versicle with "I will sing and give praise with the best member that I have."
Especially since the other choristers were giggling, damn them.
How many members have you got? Is your best one for Sundays only?
"Dammit, Gladys! That was me best member!"
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DangerousDeacon
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Our particular double entendre is the following refrain (which in an Antipodean setting can be used by Australians at the expense of New Zealanders):
Jesus O Jesus
Come and fill your lambs
It is of the Hillsong genre, I believe.
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Gill H
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Originally posted by DangerousDeacon:
Our particular double entendre is the following refrain (which in an Antipodean setting can be used by Australians at the expense of New Zealanders):
Jesus O Jesus
Come and fill your lambs
It is of the Hillsong genre, I believe.
Predates Hillsong by several decades - it's a Wimber song I think. Haven't heard it for many years!
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Jolly Jape
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It was indeed written by the late, (and one time Righteous Brother) John Wimber.
The Vineyard stable also brought us the classic Take Me Away, which brought howls of laughter from the worship band that I was in at that time.
"Pour over me, Pour over me
Your oil of perfect peace ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Augustine the Aleut
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In my TCD days it was a favourite parlour game to review the index of first lines for the most unsuitable possible wedding hymn. As pants the hart for cooling streams, all heated in the chase, was the winner. As with gladness, men of old. Many a time and oft. All my heart this night rejoices. All ye who seek for sure relief. And in certain dioceses, Who be that in yonder stall might ring a bell.
But to the OP- did not Handel's great aria, We, like sheep, cause delight in rural choristers who might have dropped a comma?
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Fr Weber
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Originally posted by Augustine the Aleut:
In my TCD days it was a favourite parlour game to review the index of first lines for the most unsuitable possible wedding hymn. As pants the hart for cooling streams, all heated in the chase, was the winner. As with gladness, men of old. Many a time and oft. All my heart this night rejoices. All ye who seek for sure relief. And in certain dioceses, Who be that in yonder stall might ring a bell.
But to the OP- did not Handel's great aria, We, like sheep, cause delight in rural choristers who might have dropped a comma?
It's a chorus, not an aria, and it's "All we, like sheep". But yes, even today it remains a source of laughter!
Adding to your list of unsuitable wedding hymns : "We plough the fields and scatter" and "See, the conqu'ror mounts in triumph."
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Fr Weber:
Adding to your list of unsuitable wedding hymns : "We plough the fields and scatter" and "See, the conqu'ror mounts in triumph."
"We plow the fields, and scatter the good seed on the land..." has always reminded me of Onan.
When I just posted this, I loved the reminder to wash my hands!
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Qoheleth.
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A Wesley offering, for the wedding night:
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My company before is gone,
And I am left alone with Thee;
With Thee all night I mean to stay,
And wrestle till the break of day.
(It's a glorious hymn, though)
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L'organist
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Its long been a favourite game of organists to put together the list of unsuitable wedding hymns and last time we arrived at the following:
at the entrance of the bride Great God, what do I see and hear
then choose from the following
O love that wilt not let me go,
Courage brother, do not stumble,
Through the night of doubt and sorrow
We plough the fields and scatter
It came upon the midnight clear
Behold, the Bridegroom cometh in the middle of the night
It is finished, Blessed Jesus
Of course, nowadays one deals with couples with zero knowledge of either hymns or what is suitable for church - I recently had to explain to a bride why a song by Ed Sheeran with the word f*ck in the lyrics wasn't appropriate for church ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Albertus
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I believe that when Tom Driberg, to the surprise of all who knew him, married, it was suggested that 'perverse and foolish oft I strayed' might be appropriately sung...
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I have modified the puncutation on the first two words to give you some idea how they sounded when sung...
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Blow! Blow! Blow 'till I be,
but breath of the spirit blowing in me.
I don't know when that song was written, but we were singing it(and breaking into laughing fits) at Catholic school in the late 1970s. That being era in which I would have hoped that curriculum planners would be worldly enough to recognize that they were inviting mockery by giving it to adolescents to sing.
I suppose one good thing about kids being raised in the current era of easy-access raunch culture is that future adminstrators, born in the Millenial era, upon being shown such lyrics, will know enough to say "Umm, no, just no".
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
always reminded me of Onan.
The famous budgerigar?
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Enoch
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I went to a wedding some years ago where one of the hymns was 'Fight the Good Fight'. Sadly, it proved prophetic.
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Originally posted by Enoch:
I went to a wedding some years ago where one of the hymns was 'Fight the Good Fight'. Sadly, it proved prophetic.
I did years ago go to a similar wedding when hymn sheets were done by a printer. This one had the words, "fight the good fight" in bold. Too late to do anything about it.
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DangerousDeacon
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Originally posted by Gill H:
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Originally posted by DangerousDeacon:
Our particular double entendre is the following refrain (which in an Antipodean setting can be used by Australians at the expense of New Zealanders):
Jesus O Jesus
Come and fill your lambs
It is of the Hillsong genre, I believe.
Predates Hillsong by several decades - it's a Wimber song I think. Haven't heard it for many years!
Yes, that's the one. I will soon be hearing it at an ordination; my associate priest has promised to sit next to me and jab me sharply in the ribs if I start laughing, though I think I shall probably just turn bright red to match my stole.
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Slightly away from hymns, the national song of New Zealanders is of course Handel's All we like sheep.
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Jemima the 9th
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Originally posted by Gill H:
It was 'take me to your throne this day' as I recall.
No-one's mentioned the Ship favourite "Your love is amazing" yet?
Your love is surprising, I can feel it rising...
"All the joy that's growing
Deep inside of me...."
I just cannot sing it with a straight face. I have to bite my tongue very hard.
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Pomona
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Originally posted by L'organist:
Its long been a favourite game of organists to put together the list of unsuitable wedding hymns and last time we arrived at the following:
at the entrance of the bride Great God, what do I see and hear
then choose from the following
O love that wilt not let me go,
Courage brother, do not stumble,
Through the night of doubt and sorrow
We plough the fields and scatter
It came upon the midnight clear
Behold, the Bridegroom cometh in the middle of the night
It is finished, Blessed Jesus
Of course, nowadays one deals with couples with zero knowledge of either hymns or what is suitable for church - I recently had to explain to a bride why a song by Ed Sheeran with the word f*ck in the lyrics wasn't appropriate for church
Ed Sheeran in church, no (unless it's explicitly using secular songs a la a U2charist or something). Given Paul's language in some of the Epistles, can't see the issue with 'fuck' in church though perhaps not at a wedding with small children there.
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Pomona:
Given Paul's language in some of the Epistles, can't see the issue with 'fuck' in church though perhaps not at a wedding with small children there.
Contemporary mores generally view the word "fuck" as unsuitable for polite company. Even many people who use the word as a part of their normal lexicon would be a little shocked to find it in church. It's probably best not to use language that some people will find offensive, even if you don't.
(And if you only ever have small children in your church for a wedding, I'm sorry...)
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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
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Originally posted by Pomona:
Given Paul's language in some of the Epistles, can't see the issue with 'fuck' in church though perhaps not at a wedding with small children there.
Contemporary mores generally view the word "fuck" as unsuitable for polite company. Even many people who use the word as a part of their normal lexicon would be a little shocked to find it in church. It's probably best not to use language that some people will find offensive, even if you don't.
(And if you only ever have small children in your church for a wedding, I'm sorry...)
There are plenty of occasions where church shouldn't be polite, or should make people uncomfortable. I'm not saying this should be all the time, but it can be done effectively eg Tony Campolo. Surely there's a problem when church is too polite?
Also re small children, I was thinking along the lines of swearing in church when children are out at Sunday school, or at an evening service which tends not to have young children present. I've never seen Sunday school provision at a wedding.
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I'd really advise against "fuck" at a church wedding (the word, numskulls) because there's bound to be a highly shockable relative or fifty attending, and it really isn't kind to send them off in fits. (Though of course this may be an added inducement to some couples)
On the other hand, it does ensure that your wedding will never, ever, EVER be forgotten, lo, for fifty years to come at every family reunion...
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Pomona:
There are plenty of occasions where church shouldn't be polite, or should make people uncomfortable. I'm not saying this should be all the time, but it can be done effectively eg Tony Campolo. Surely there's a problem when church is too polite?
These are different things. I agree that church shouldn't be afraid to make people uncomfortable (it's counterproductive if that happens all the time, of course). I'm not familiar with Mr. Campolo.
But there's a difference between making people uncomfortable because you're confronting their prejudices or pushing them out of their nice sheltered existence and making them confront the reality of the lives of people living a few miles away, for example (which are both good and necessary) and making them uncomfortable because you're using coarse language, which is just unnecessary.
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