Nick-names for awful hymns?

[Musician]

Can’t resist another hit on “Let Us Break Bread Together”. A priest I used to work with came up with, “…when I fall on my face, with my knees to the rising sun, Oh Lord, have mercy, on me.”
If I have to play or even hear “One Bread One Body” just one more time, I think I’m gonna lose it. My other church musician friends and I make fun of this song all the time. It’s like the song that never ends. “Gentile or Jew-w-w-w-w-w…” I mean, seriously, who wrote this?

 

[Frankr409]

Can’t resist another hit on “Let Us Break Bread Together”. A priest I used to work with came up with, “…when I fall on my face, with my knees to the rising sun, Oh Lord, have mercy, on me.”
If I have to play or even hear “One Bread One Body” just one more time, I think I’m gonna lose it. My other church musician friends and I make fun of this song all the time. It’s like the song that never ends. “Gentile or Jew-w-w-w-w-w…” I mean, seriously, who wrote this?

Sorry to say that this song is my least favorite as well. We had a dog named Choopie, and when I would have to sing this one I used to mentally insert the line

“…and we the Choopies, would bark in fear, if I hear just one more verse…”

 

[Newbie2]

Why, you green-blooded son of a…
Really, Doctor, you must learn to govern your passions. They will be your undoing!

Couldn’t resist. I have to advise people unless they want to hear me quote the dialogue for Star Trek (espeically TOS and II and IV) to never watch it with me. The first movie I was ever able to sit through was IV, The One With the Whales (also known as The Voyage Home).

That would be the torpedo bay they’re in. Also, I don’t know if it would be possible to play the pipes with just 3 fingers (and a thumb) on the right hand. James Doohan lost his middle finger in WWII.

Actually, I do like bag pipes, and I have been wanting to learn to play for several years. Just not been able to find an instructor. I guess I could learn it by myself, but it’s unlike anything I’ve learned on my own before, and I know that (learning on my own) is an easy way of picking up bad habits. I’m not concerned about the breath control, since I also play oboe (actually stopped for a few years, but starting to pick it back up again), and I imagine the embraucher would be very similar, as well.

There’s not much to the breathing part, it’s more control of pressure in the bag, BTW.

 

[benedictgal]

Can’t resist another hit on “Let Us Break Bread Together”. A priest I used to work with came up with, “…when I fall on my face, with my knees to the rising sun, Oh Lord, have mercy, on me.”
If I have to play or even hear “One Bread One Body” just one more time, I think I’m gonna lose it. My other church musician friends and I make fun of this song all the time. It’s like the song that never ends. “Gentile or Jew-w-w-w-w-w…” I mean, seriously, who wrote this?

Actually, One Bread, One Body is just one of the songs in OCP’s arsenal. Even though the composer, Fr. John Foley, of the infamous St. Louis Jesuits, culled the lyrics from one of the Pauline epistles, he managed to somehow, as I see it, distort the subject of the Holy Eucharist, making it more about us than about Jesus.

 

[jbook]

Also, “Here I am, Lord” is much like the Brady Bunch theme… you know… 'Here I am, Lord, it is I, Lord… I am bringing up three very lovely girls!"

And the 5/4 “Sing of the Lord’s Goodness” reminds me of “Everything’s Alright” from Jesus Christ, Superstar.

There is another song… that I can’t think of right now, but I think that it’s a “community meal” song, that reminds me an awful lot of that song from Willy Wonka… the “If you want a view of paradise, simply look around an view it” song. Does anyone know the one I’m talking about?

Actually, Morning Has Broken is more along the lines of Cat Stevens. Here is him singing it live.

Yes, the song you are looking for is “Remember Your Love” by Darryl Ducote/Gary Daigle. (It’s in the OCP Today’s Missal Music Issue.)

Gah. :coffeeread: