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Thread #16777   Message #158952
Posted By: Roger the skiffler
06-Jan-00 - 10:53 AM
Thread Name: Sexism in Music forums
Subject: ADD: BLEST IS THE MAN WHOSE BOWELS MOVE
(Serious thread creep):While Catspaw is on his bumperdumper, portapotty or musical john he might lie to sing this hymn (there,back to music again!)

BLEST IS THE MAN WHOSE BOWELS MOVE
(Isaac Watts, 1674-1748)

Blest is the man whose bowels move,
And melt with pity to the poor;
Whose soul, by sympathizing love,
Feels what his fellow saints endure.

2. His heart contrives for their relief
More good than his own hands can do;
He, in the time of gen'ral grief,
Shall find the Lord has bowels too.

3. His soul shall live secure on earth,
With secret blessings on his head,
When drought, and pestilence, and dearth
Around him multiply their dead.

4. Or if he languish on his couch,
God will pronounce his sins forgiv'n;
Will save him with a healing touch,
Or take his willing soul to heav'n.

RtS (cut 'n' pasted from the site given on the English/German lyrics thread.)