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Thread #152726 Message #3573302
Posted By: Phil Cooper
06-Nov-13 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: MacLean 'Ready For The Storm'-Christian?
Subject: RE: MacLean 'Ready For The Storm'-Christian?
Everyone perceives a song differently. What I get out of a song isn't necessarily what the person who hears me sing it will get out of it. A lot of "secular" songs mean a lot more to me than many "sacred" songs. Of course I'm the person who got in a bit of hot water for introducing our Lutheran pastor to Tom Paxton's What a Friend we Have in Hoover. He included it in the Luther League song book and someone's parent looked at the book and thought there was a communist influence (this was around 1971). I agree with the post sentiment that it's pretty much up to who singing the song in church and the church itself. What Dougie MacLean's intent was it pretty much irrelevant in this case.