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Thread #105526   Message #2172724
Posted By: Azizi
17-Oct-07 - 12:08 AM
Thread Name: BS: Signs Of Sanity
Subject: RE: BS: Signs Of Sanity
One standard phrase that deacons or other adults made when they offered prayers during religious services was that they "thank God that they woke up this morning clothed in their right mind.

For a long time, since I was a child and until fairly recently, I heard this phrase, but didn't try to suss out what it meant.

But now that I am older, I "get" the meaning of a person being "clothed in her or his right mind". And I think it's a remarkably creative descriptor of one sign of sanity.

And though this song was never sung this way, in the tradition of folk music, I'm thankful that I can say

Well, I woke up this mornin still
clothed in my right mind
I woke up this mornin still
clothed in my right mind
I woke up this mornin still
clothed in my right mind
Hallelu
Hallelu
Hallelu-u-jah.

It coulda been clothed the wrong way
Yes-es Lord
It coulda been clothed the wrong way
Yes-es Lord
It coulda been clothed the wrong way
Yes-es Lord
Hallelu
Hallelu
Hallelu-u-jah

It coulda wore no clothes at all
Yes-es Lord
It coulda wore no clothes at all
Yes-es Lord
It coulda wore no clothes at all
Yes-es Lord
Hallelu
Hallelu
Hallelu-u-jah

Well, I woke up this mornin still
clothed in my right mind
I woke up this mornin still
clothed in my right mind
I woke up this mornin still
clothed in my right mind
Hallelu
Hallelu
Hallelu-u-jah.

-snip-

{Of course, these types of songs are open ended, so any body may add another verse using that same pattern if she or he so chooses}.

Or you can pay this adaptation of that song no never mind at all.