The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79702   Message #4059041
Posted By: cnd
13-Jun-20 - 12:28 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Methodist Pie
Subject: RE: Origins: Methodist Pie
In the recording of this song by Wilbur Sayles (To God Be the Glory, Hymntime HPS/HWS 2089, c. early 1970s), he sings it differently, singing basically the same first 4 lines of the song as in the DT (click), and then goes into his chorus, which goes:

"Oh, little children, I belie-he-eve
Oh, little children, I belie-he-eve
Oh, little children, I believe
I'm a Methodist till I die
I'm a Methodist, a Methodist, 'tis my belief
I'm a Methodist till I die
And all they can say when they lay me down to rest
Is they laid another Methodist by"

From there he continues on with the remainder of the first stanza as given in the DT, then skips to the next 4 lines of the song.

Aside from that, his version is essentially just a reorganized version of the song, sometimes changing the verses in pairs of two lines instead of 4 lines, but otherwise the same meaning. He also left out the "last chorus" given in the DT.