I'd have to agree with Joe. I would probably choose What A Wonderful World, but I'd be just as happy singing beautiful hymns, as I did before Easter when I sang Faure's Requiem.

There are many, many sites around with hundreds of verses to Gimme That Old Time Religion, many of them separated into various conventional creeds and paganism. Here is a very small sample:

OLD TIME RELIGION-----a filk song

REFRAIN after each verse (if you can stand it!)
GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION,
GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION,
GIVE ME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION,
THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!



There are people into voodoo
there are people into voodoo
I know, I know, I hope that you do,
it's good enough for me.

There will be a lot of lovin'
When we're gathered in our coven
With your pushin' and your shovin',
so there'll be room enough for me.

We shall worship with the Druids
Drinking strange fermented fluids
RUNNING NAKED THROUGH THE WOO-OODS,...
and that's good enough for me.

There's an opera written for us
We all join in the chorus
It's an opera 'bout Boris,
and it's.....

With your trusty old Althame
You can blast a double whammy
Or slice and dice a whammy
which is .....

Well, she raised an awful flurry
When she made the scholars worry.
Thank the gods for Margaret Murray!!!
It's good......

Let us go and worship Hermes;
Got a staff that crawls with wormies
That could knock out all the germies,
He's good.....
Well, there's one thing that I do know,
(insert someone's name) favorite is Juno,
'Cause she's awfully good at...you know,
And that's ......

It was good enough for Sapho
With her lady on her lap-oh
She put Lesbos on the map-oh
with her pagan poetry

Meeting at the witching hour
By the bud and branch and flower
Folks are raising up the power
That's where I want to be.

Let us gather in our saunas
When The Spirit comes upon us
To perform the rites of faunas,
That's good enough.....

We went off to worship Venus.
And by gosh you should have seen us!
Now the clinic has to screen us.
But, she's good enough for me.

We will pray to Aphrodite
Even tho' she's rather flighty
And they say she wears no nightie,
And that's good .....

We will pray with those Egyptians
Build our pyramids to put our crypts in
Cover subways with inscriptions,
And that's ......

Oh, Old Odin we will follow
And in fighting we will wallow
"Til we wind up in Valhallooooo,
And that's good enough.....

Let me follow dear old Buddha
For there is nobody cuter
He comes in plastic, wood or pewter,
And that's......

We will pray with Zarathrustra
Pray just like we usta
I'm a Zarathrustra booster.....
And that's good .....

Hare Krishna gets a laugh on
When he sees me dressed in Saffron
With my hair that's only half-on,
Oh, he's good.....

I'll rise early in the morning
When the sun gives me a warning
That the solar age is dawning,...
Well, that's good. ^^^