You know that Father Abraham song is about Abe Lincolns mentally challenged kids? "They didn't laugh NO! The didn't cry NO! This is what they did with their right hand" It was making fun of those kids! oops.
they were fun songs for children's fellowships. Unfortunately my first twig leader loved to do them in the adult fellowships. That's fine once in a while, but i still cringe when I think of the night I brought a fellow college student friend to fellowship early on.
First thing we do is sing 'head , shoulders , knees and toes'. It was all down hill from there.
Yeah, singing baby songs in adult situations was tedious, but I did enjoy CB's first album, as WishingForFreedom mentioned. Georgio, were you Mini-Family 6 or 4? If you were, you were in Rome City at the same time I was. I musta been sleeping if you mentioned that before....
I mentioned once before how VPW couldn't even leave CB's work alone. He had to change some of the lyrics -- some of it seemed pretty arbitrarily. So here's some Way trivia (and 'cuz I need to get "clap your hands, one-two-three" out of my head now, Steve!): the original first stanza to CB's ABC song...
"A" is for Apple, the life's in the seed,
"B" is for Bible, the best book to read,
"C" is for Christ in you always to stay,
"D" is Delight in the Lord every day.
I was especially fond of "Little Tin Soldier." It has the staying power of other folk songs classics like "The Marvelous Toy." And I will admit that once I had kids of my own, it could make me downright teary-eyed.
Shaz, I was F9, but had made a name for myself as a singer before I was in the mini corps. I was flown in, much to Heiki's shagrin, as a ringer. I was promised a solo, never happened.
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Belle
He led the others with a quack-quack-quack
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Ham
Father Abraham, he had two sons. Two sons had father Abraham...
Heh heh.
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Raf
The B-I-B-L-E
Yes that's the book for me....
Hey, someone must have missed that song.
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Wishing for Freedom
I loved all the songs
The Little Tin Soldier
Walking with my Lord, Through the Darkest Night
We're Standing on the W-O-R-D
and many more
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Georgio Jessio
I was on that origional childrens choir album.
"We're standing on the W-O-R-D
Clap your hands,
Cuz we're a family.
The word is the will of G-O-D,
Hand in hand on his word we will stand!"
You know that Father Abraham song is about Abe Lincolns mentally challenged kids? "They didn't laugh NO! The didn't cry NO! This is what they did with their right hand" It was making fun of those kids! oops.
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Yanagisawa
Yeah, what was that one about being good little worker ants and doing your job without question?
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hiway29
they were fun songs for children's fellowships. Unfortunately my first twig leader loved to do them in the adult fellowships. That's fine once in a while, but i still cringe when I think of the night I brought a fellow college student friend to fellowship early on.
First thing we do is sing 'head , shoulders , knees and toes'. It was all down hill from there.
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JustThinking
hiway29,
I feel your pain. We did them at branch meetings too. I loved the songs but it's kind of weird for new folks.
JT
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excathedra
i don't know, i think they might have sucked
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shazdancer
Yeah, singing baby songs in adult situations was tedious, but I did enjoy CB's first album, as WishingForFreedom mentioned. Georgio, were you Mini-Family 6 or 4? If you were, you were in Rome City at the same time I was. I musta been sleeping if you mentioned that before....
I mentioned once before how VPW couldn't even leave CB's work alone. He had to change some of the lyrics -- some of it seemed pretty arbitrarily. So here's some Way trivia (and 'cuz I need to get "clap your hands, one-two-three" out of my head now, Steve!): the original first stanza to CB's ABC song...
"A" is for Apple, the life's in the seed,
"B" is for Bible, the best book to read,
"C" is for Christ in you always to stay,
"D" is Delight in the Lord every day.
I was especially fond of "Little Tin Soldier." It has the staying power of other folk songs classics like "The Marvelous Toy." And I will admit that once I had kids of my own, it could make me downright teary-eyed.
Regards,
Shaz
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Georgio Jessio
Shaz, I was F9, but had made a name for myself as a singer before I was in the mini corps. I was flown in, much to Heiki's shagrin, as a ringer. I was promised a solo, never happened.
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Belle
They probably can't sing "Little Tin Soldier" anymore....they are athletes of the spirit, not soldiers. War terminology is and old wineskin.
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Thelema
"The rains came down as the floods came up,
The rains came down as the floods came up,
The rains came down as the floods came, and house on the rock stood fast."
"Sooooo, build your house on the Lord Jesus Christ..."
MAKE IT STOOOOOP!!!
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Thelema
of course, "It's Bubbling" is the absolute classic!!
:D-->
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ciythog
God is good to me,
God is good to me,
He holds my hand,
He helps me stand,
God is good to me.
God is good to me,
God is good to me,
He holds me tight,
He helps me fight,
God is good to me.
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