The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8162   Message #176904
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
11-Feb-00 - 08:14 PM
Thread Name: Why we sing.
Subject: RE: Why we sing.
A drop of the pure! Thanks for reviving it and reviving us all.

I sing because it feels good. If it sounds good as well, that's a bonus.

Singing together with people who share something. Singing the old hymns in Church, when they're all joining in. Or when it's a small shy congregation, and you think you're the only one who's going to sing, and you hear the others as well. Singing on a march, and turning the slogans that divide into the songs that unite.

Or singing in a folk place, and you're on your own, and then other people join in. Singing a song you've made, or a song you've found, that says something you want to say, and finding that there's people who understand what you are on about.

HOW CAN I KEEP FROM SINGING?

Thanks to Big Mick for starting this thread, and the rest of you for keeping it the way it should be.