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bluebell Grand Master

bluebell

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15 minutes ago, Ginger Snaps said:

Or how about “roses bloom beneath our feet, all the earth’s a garden sweet”? I haaaaaaate that song. It seems to be the default Mother’s Day song and it’s so sappy. 

Amen sister!  I hate that song so much.  It's a sappy poem that they put to funeral music.  But, I'm also one of those apostate people that could happily live without "I Believe in Christ".  The melody is not pretty and it goes on for 147 verses.

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Calm Grand Master

Calm

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5 hours ago, bluebell said:

I hope we lose true to the faith as well. The whole part where you yell out yes and no just sounds dumb and it doesn’t work at all for converts.

YES! ;)

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Ginger Snaps Rising Star

Ginger Snaps

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2 minutes ago, bluebell said:

Amen sister!  I hate that song so much.  It's a sappy poem that they put to funeral music.  But, I'm also one of those apostate people that could happily live without "I Believe in Christ".  The melody is not pretty and it goes on for 147 verses.

Oh my goodness yes!  8 verses masquerading as 4!! 

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Calm Grand Master

Calm

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4 hours ago, ZealouslyStriving said:

It starts:

"En el pueblo de Sion, donde todos Santos son..."

Google translate:

"In the town of Zion, where all are holy..."

That makes more sense to me than Deseret…

Calm Grand Master

Calm

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4 hours ago, Peacefully said:

but in Texas we sing it with the emphasis on the second syllable like the word “on” and I still do that sometimes to this day, lol. 

It seems to be the more common pronunciation outside the Church…or at least how I hear it most often.  It sounds forced to me, like they are unfamiliar with the word, lol.  It is me unfamiliar with how everyone else says it instead.

iirc, the first time I really paid attention to it was in the Matrix movies and my brain went to laughing smugly how the writers were trying to be religious and spiritual while being clueless, likely atheists and them even making a commentary on religion taken too far…all because of an allegedly mispronounced word.  Too funny.

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Calm Grand Master

Calm

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19 minutes ago, bluebell said:

The melody is not pretty and it goes on for 147 verses.

It is a drone…

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bluebell Grand Master

bluebell

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Just now, Calm said:

It is a drone…

We sang it twice in March in Sacrament meeting and one of those times was on Easter Sunday.  :bad:

manol Veteran

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Maybe somebody could do a little remedial work on the hymn that says "... and none shall molest them from morn until ev'n".  So... once the sun goes down, it's open season on the Mormons??

And I have fond memories of my brother and I raising our voices high on this one while trying to keep a straight face.  Were we the only ones who sang it this way?: 

"But I could not see it fairly, for my sight was very dim. When I came to search more clearly, in mine eye there was a  bim."

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Ginger Snaps Rising Star

Ginger Snaps

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4 minutes ago, bluebell said:

We sang it twice in March in Sacrament meeting and one of those times was on Easter Sunday.  :bad:

We sang “I know That My Redeemer Lives”, which is almost the same song. And there are so many GOOD Easter hymns too. 

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bluebell Grand Master

bluebell

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5 minutes ago, Ginger Snaps said:

We sang “I know That My Redeemer Lives”, which is almost the same song. And there are so many GOOD Easter hymns too. 

We did too!  And I thought the same thing. Seriously?!  We get to sing Easter songs one time a year!  I kept my mouth shut though because you tell people you don't like I Believe in Christ or I know that My Redeemer Lives and they look at you like you are a closet satanist. 

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Peacefully Grand Master

Peacefully

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39 minutes ago, Calm said:

It seems to be the more common pronunciation outside the Church…or at least how I hear it most often.  It sounds forced to me, like they are unfamiliar with the word, lol.  It is me unfamiliar with how everyone else says it instead.

iirc, the first time I really paid attention to it was in the Matrix movies and my brain went to laughing smugly how the writers were trying to be religious and spiritual while being clueless, likely atheists and them even making a commentary on religion taken too far…all because of an allegedly mispronounced word.  Too funny.

I was a new convert when I heard the LDS way of pronouncing it. I wanted to fit in so tried my best to say it that way, but sometimes the Texas comes out, lol. 

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Peacefully Grand Master

Peacefully

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19 minutes ago, bluebell said:

We did too!  And I thought the same thing. Seriously?!  We get to sing Easter songs one time a year!  I kept my mouth shut though because you tell people you don't like I Believe in Christ or I know that My Redeemer Lives and they look at you like you are a closet satanist. 

Or you become the chorister, lol. 

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Peacefully Grand Master

Peacefully

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Why do choristers seem to love the seventh verse of “How Firm a Foundation?” Something about repeating “never” 100 times seems to really appeal to them. I guess it makes us seem really, really, no really, valiant, lol. 

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bluebell Grand Master

bluebell

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1 hour ago, Calm said:

It seems to be the more common pronunciation outside the Church…or at least how I hear it most often.  It sounds forced to me, like they are unfamiliar with the word, lol.  It is me unfamiliar with how everyone else says it instead.

iirc, the first time I really paid attention to it was in the Matrix movies and my brain went to laughing smugly how the writers were trying to be religious and spiritual while being clueless, likely atheists and them even making a commentary on religion taken too far…all because of an allegedly mispronounced word.  Too funny.

I thought the same!  I just assumed they didn't have a lot of experience with the word.  

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bluebell Grand Master

bluebell

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6 minutes ago, Ginger Snaps said:

Amazing Grace for the closing song of the Sat evening session! I wonder if that’s a sign it will be in the new hymn book? 

I hope so!

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Rain Grand Master

Rain

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2 hours ago, Ginger Snaps said:

Amazing Grace for the closing song of the Sat evening session! I wonder if that’s a sign it will be in the new hymn book? 

I thought I read somewhere that they were planning on it. No clue where I read it though.

bluebell Grand Master

bluebell

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12 hours ago, Rain said:

I thought I read somewhere that they were planning on it. No clue where I read it though.

I love that because I once had a bishop (an amazing man, truly) who forbid a sister from singing that song in sacrament meeting (she did anyway and he was convinced it ruined the remainder of the meeting).  I never understood his feelings about that song.

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Rain Grand Master

Rain

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1 minute ago, bluebell said:

I love that because I once had a bishop (an amazing man, truly) who forbid a sister from singing that song in sacrament meeting (she did anyway and he was convinced it ruined the remainder of the meeting).  I never understood his feelings about that song.

The things I've heard against it were "incorrect doctrine". I don't know all the words so maybe there is some? But it seems it is more people are worried that it is faith without works.

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Tacenda Grand Master

Tacenda

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1 hour ago, bluebell said:

I love that because I once had a bishop (an amazing man, truly) who forbid a sister from singing that song in sacrament meeting (she did anyway and he was convinced it ruined the remainder of the meeting).  I never understood his feelings about that song.

Because it was a grace without works? 

bluebell Grand Master

bluebell

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10 minutes ago, ZealouslyStriving said:

Grace doesn't save, us Jesus does.

As the song is about the grace of Christ, I’m not sure how you can separate the two.

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Damien the Leper Grand Master

Damien the Leper

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I'm still hoping There is a Green Hill Far Away, There is Sunshine in My Soul Today, Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel and A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief are left out. @bluebell mentioned True to the Faith... good call!!

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JAHS Grand Master

JAHS

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Here is the full list of songs that came back: 

Come, thou Fount of Every Blessing
When the Savior Comes Again
It Is Well with My Soul
I Will Walk with Jesus
His Eyes Is on the Sparrow
Think a Sacred Song
As Bread Is Broken
Bread of Life, Living Water
Gethsemane
Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise 
He Is Born, the Divine Christ Child
What Child Is This?
Star Bright

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