The pirate hymn

[Scott Lloyd]

So our ward organist got us to change the opening hymn in sacrament meeting today, because she thought we should sing “the pirate hymn” on Halloween. If you don’t know what the pirate hymn is, see this link:

After the meeting, two people commented to me at separate times how pleasant it was to see me smiling at the congregation as I led the hymn singing. I wasn’t conscious of it, but it dawned on me that I must have been thinking about us singing the pirate hymn. 

[The Nehor]

I believe the hymn instruction would be “piratically”.

[Fether]

Playing any hymn slightly faster and staccato makes it a pirate hymn.

[strappinglad]

excellent, it reminds me, there is a marijuana hymn also. 

[Calm]

17 minutes ago, strappinglad said:

excellent, it reminds me, there is a marijuana hymn also. 

Which one is that?

[strappinglad]

10 minutes ago, Calm said:

Which one is that?

Oh, you know, the one that starts , " high on a mountain top " 👿

[strappinglad]

There used to be the " Yoo-Hoo " song, but they changed the lyrics a few years back. 

[Calm]

15 minutes ago, strappinglad said:

There used to be the " Yoo-Hoo " song, but they changed the lyrics a few years back. 

Had to look that up as I could only remember the line tonight (brain fog is running high) and found this article:

https://humanities.byu.edu/an-inside-look-at-the-1985-lds-hymnbook/
 

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Though none of the word changes were major, the changes were nevertheless important to the text, Gardner explains. At the fireside, he shared a few examples of editing changes that made the texts of the hymns either more doctrinally accurate or simpler to sing.

“Remember ‘How Firm a Foundation’? In verse one, the words, ‘You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled’ had long been a source of merriment, and not just among those sitting on the deacon’s bench,” he joked. “Now, instead of singing ‘You who unto Jesus,’ we sing, “Who unto the Savior for refuge have fled.”

Also for fun:

https://www.thuswesee.com/2011/03/yoo-hoo-unto-jesus/

Edited November 1, 2021 by Calm

[Peacefully]

This thread made me think of Praise to the Man and how it always makes me think of Old Spice. I finally looked it up and Praise to the Man uses the melody of “Scotland the Brave” which was adapted by Ginger Johnson for the Old Spice jingle. I would say it also qualifies as a sea shanty:) 

[Olmec Donald]

Do ya'll still sing the one that talks about open season on the Mormons? 

Edit:  @Scott Lloyd, do ye know how many yearrrs it's been since I've 'ad a 'ymn stuck in me 'ead? 

Arrrgh.

Edited November 1, 2021 by Olmec Donald

[Scott Lloyd]

1 hour ago, Fether said:

Playing any hymn slightly faster and staccato makes it a pirate hymn.

This one can be challenging for a chorister, because the time signature is 6/8, and it’s too fast to lead it with a 6/8 beat pattern. I adapted it today to a 2/4 beat pattern. 

[Scott Lloyd]

1 hour ago, Calm said:

Had to look that up as I could only remember the line tonight (brain fog is running high) and found this article:

https://humanities.byu.edu/an-inside-look-at-the-1985-lds-hymnbook/
 

Also for fun:

https://www.thuswesee.com/2011/03/yoo-hoo-unto-jesus/

One of my best-remembered songs from Primary is “The Golden Plates.” I hadn’t heard it in many years until last week when we had our Primary program in sacrament meeting. I learned when the children sang it that one line has been changed from “A record made by Nephi, a godly man of old” to “a record made by Nephi written in days of old.” I suppose that fits the meter better  

 

 

 

 

[Scott Lloyd]

1 hour ago, Olmec Donald said:

Do ya'll still sing the one that talks about open season on the Mormons? 

Edit:  @Scott Lloyd, do ye know how many yearrrs it's been since I've 'ad a 'ymn stuck in me 'ead? 

Arrrgh.

What’s the “open season” one? Is it “Up, Awake, Ye Defenders of Zion”? That’s still in the hymn book, but we never sing it. It’s to the tune of “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean.”

 

[Olmec Donald]

1 hour ago, Scott Lloyd said:

What’s the “open season” one?

"... and none shall molest them from morn until ev'n."

So... once the sun goes down... it's open season??

Edited November 1, 2021 by Olmec Donald

[Scott Lloyd]

1 hour ago, Olmec Donald said:

"... and none shall molest them from morn until ev'n."

So... once the sun goes down... it's open season??

Ah, OK. 

Kidding aside, the hymn seems to be alluding to the Millennium, the thousand years of peace when Christ will reign personally on the earth, “the day of salvation” when “earth will appear as the Garden of Eden,” and the Saints will be given “all that was promised.” In that day, no one will molest the Saints, because the earth will have been cleansed from wickedness. The “morn until ev’n” phrasing appears to be a poetic way of denoting the entire duration of the Millennium from its beginning to its end. 

Edited November 1, 2021 by Scott Lloyd

[Scott Lloyd]

11 hours ago, Peacefully said:

This thread made me think of Praise to the Man and how it always makes me think of Old Spice. I finally looked it up and Praise to the Man uses the melody of “Scotland the Brave” which was adapted by Ginger Johnson for the Old Spice jingle. I would say it also qualifies as a sea shanty:) 

I’ve not heard the Old Spice jingle, but the tune in a secular setting makes me think of every bagpipe band I’ve ever heard. 

Edited November 1, 2021 by Scott Lloyd

[Bernard Gui]

Then there’s the bluegrass railroad hymn.  Having performed it many a time with Uncle Lumpy and the Friends of Calvin Coolidge, I cannot sing the hymn in our book without drifting into a nasal twang and cracking up. 

 

Edited November 1, 2021 by Bernard Gui

[Bernard Gui]

6 hours ago, Olmec Donald said:

"... and none shall molest them from morn until ev'n."

So... once the sun goes down... it's open season??

My parents were serving a mission in the Pueblo Indian area of northern New Mexico. They were in a sacrament meeting in the branch president’s home singing “For the Strength of the Hills.” It became awkward when they came to the part about the “red untutored Indian seeking here his rude delights.” They wrote a letter to SLC…that verse was removed from the next hymn book.

Edited November 1, 2021 by Bernard Gui

[strappinglad]

On one occasion when I led the music and got to pick the closing hymn at a meeting that went well over long, I chose " The Time is Far Spent " . It was sung through a few giggles from the congregation.

[T-Shirt]

How about, "Go Tell Aunt Rhody"?  I can't sing that one using the lyrics in the hymn book.

[pogi]

14 hours ago, strappinglad said:

Oh, you know, the one that starts , " high on a mountain top " 👿

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[LoudmouthMormon]

Opening post shows a YouTube video on pirate hymns by Drybar comedy.  Drybar, btw, is a pretty cool thing.   Remember VidAngel from half a dozen years ago?  They let you edit the swearing/sex/violence/etc out of the movies you were watching?  Well, Disney basically sued them into the dirt, and they responded in many ways, one of which was to become a production studio and start producing family-friendly stuff.  Drybar comedy is some of that stuff.

 

[The Nehor]

12 hours ago, Olmec Donald said:

"... and none shall molest them from morn until ev'n."

So... once the sun goes down... it's open season??

I can only hope so….

 

 

What? Don’t judge me!

Edited November 1, 2021 by The Nehor

[Scott Lloyd]

5 hours ago, LoudmouthMormon said:

Opening post shows a YouTube video on pirate hymns by Drybar comedy.  Drybar, btw, is a pretty cool thing.   Remember VidAngel from half a dozen years ago?  They let you edit the swearing/sex/violence/etc out of the movies you were watching?  Well, Disney basically sued them into the dirt, and they responded in many ways, one of which was to become a production studio and start producing family-friendly stuff.  Drybar comedy is some of that stuff.

 

I like Drybar, because it provides good quality standup comedy that is not laced with vulgarity, foul language or sexual content. 

[esodije]

This discussion reminds me of my brother-in-law’s calling “Joy to the World” the “explicit” LDS Christmas hymn, inasmuch as it contains the line “While Israel spreads a broad.”