I'm with everybody else. Don't sing too many, but Wayfaring Stranger is on my all-time faves list, with that great dark lonesome melody and the blood-and-guts lyrics.

A standard in my repertoire under the category "Gospel for Agnostics": "It Ain't Necessarily So". This classic has all the gospel swing and passion, and Bible stories, told with a skeptical flair (and crazy rhymes).

It ain't necessarily so (2x)
The things that you're liable to read in the Bible
They ain't necessarily so.

Jonah he lived in a whale
Yeah, Jonah he live in a whale.
He made his home in that fishes' abDOUGHmen
Jonah he lived the a whale.
But....

I also sing murder ballads and shipwreck songs, but have no desire to kill anyone or find myself clinging to a splinter somewhere in the North Atlantic ...

Willie-O