Biker (etc.) hymns?

Subject: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: Haruo
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 03:15 PM

I just posted this to the Hymn Society, but it occurs the answer is more likely to be know to Mudcatters than to church musicians with computers. So:

Thinking about "Life is like a mountain railway", "Hello Central, get me Heaven", "Turn your radio on" and the like got me to wondering why I couldn't think of any hymns, praise songs, gospel ditties, whatever that feature motorcycles (or, come to think of it, any motor vehicles except trains, and ships perhaps) or even bicycles. Since there are bound to be occasions, around campfires or at memorial celebrations or wherever, when such topics or images in spiritual song would be not merely à propos but ardently desired, I submit the query: anybody got any? I know there are biker ministries out there; have they produced any good biker hymnody?

Haruo

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 03:26 PM

You tube; enter "Psychomania" for what some consider a "great biker anthem!"
(Sorry can't seem to do clicky)

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: Haruo
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 03:31 PM

I'm actually looking for (at least putatively) Christian biker material, just to be clear. But feel free to suggest the malapropos. ;-) I haven't looked yet to see if the "Psychomania" thing is Christian.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 04:03 PM

Oddly enough, I used to help the editor of a long gone Christian Biker magazine - about 25 years ago in Dorset....

Somehow the world was not ready for the concept of a Christian branch of the Hell's Angels.... and God's Demons didn't really sound too good.

We did more talking about bikes than we ever did about God or Jesus, we rarely ever sang any hymns that didn't come out of 'Sounds of Living Waters' (a popular "contemporary" song book of the 1970's) but the jackets were pretty cool.

LTS

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: Haruo
Date: 09 Jul 08 - 04:08 PM

"Sounds of living waters" is the only place I've seen a second verse to "Thou Art Worthy", and I actually kind of liked it.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: GUEST,Ted
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 04:55 AM

Maybe try the Christian Motorcyclists Association? (http://www.bike.org.uk/cma/)

Ted

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 06:37 AM

That was the one... gosh, there's a blast from the past....

LTS

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: Haruo
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 02:30 AM

Thanks for the url. Norm at BaptistLife suggested "Ride on, ride on in majesty" and "Wind who makes all winds that blow". Not bad, but a bit eisegetical. I suppose anything with "Triumph" in it could be misread to be about a bike.

Haruo

Subject: RE: Biker (etc.) hymns?
From: GUEST,Chris Brownbridge
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 06:00 PM

The Archbishop's motorcycles could be "The Triumphs of His Grace" (Charles Wesley).