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Posted by: Richard the Bad ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 05:33PM
An embarrassing confession

This past weekend I was planting a rose out in the yard and humming a tune. After a bit I stopped and tried to figure out what the tune was. And then I figured it out.

It was the Handcart Song!

Arrrgghhh! The indoctrination still vexes me!

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 05:41PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

I was in the shower this morning and found myself humming the melody of "In Humility, Our Savior."

As a musician, I get melodies in my head and they sometimes stay a while....even if they're church hymns :)

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Posted by: scmd1 ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 06:51PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

That tune [Hyfrydol]comes from an old Welsh melody coopted first into a Protestant tune, then later adapted by the Mormons. It's at least not purely LDS.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 05:45PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Come, come ye saints' melody is hard to get out of your head once it ear worms its way in.

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 05:54PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Stop trimming your ear hair. That should help keep the worms out.

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 06:00PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

I treasure the contemplative mood I fall prey to when I begin the lengthy weekly process of plucking my ear hair. I'm sure it's added weeks, if not months, to my lifetime.

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 06:20PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Plucking? You pluck? Go pluck yourself! I use a small pair of scissors and snip. Works well except for the occasional nick on my ear. Ouch!

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Posted by: elderolddog ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 06:38PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

I'm biblical.

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Posted by: Roy G Biv ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 06:42PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

And therefore metaphorical.

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Posted by: scmd1 ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 06:55PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

The melody of Come, Come, Ye Saints was originally an English folk tune. William Clayton wrote the words and was supposedly heard to say on more than one occasion that he was the composer, but he wasn't.

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Posted by: BYU Boner ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:01PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Thanks to Boyd, whenever I hop in the shower I start singing, “We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet.”

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:08PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

TMI

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Posted by: south bound ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:10PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

I am more along the lines of highway to hell, sympathy for the devil,good vibrations.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:11PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

southbound indeed!

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Posted by: CL2 ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:12PM
For an ex pianist for primary and mutual

I never get those tunes stuck in my head. I'm more like south bound.

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Posted by: honklermaga ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:15PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Should have had a trigger warning on this thread. Now I have an annoying LDS hymn stuck in my head. Don't worry, I won't name it to spare you the same fate.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:25PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Just remember, honklermaga,

Follow the prophet,
Don't go astray,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
Follow the prophet,
He knows the way!

Aaaaaand you'll be fine.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2019 08:25PM by Lot's Wife.

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Posted by: Shinehah ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:32PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Especially when chanted by Primary kids like a scene from a Stephen King novel.

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Posted by: Lot's Wife ( )
Date: July 02, 2019 08:34PM
Re: An embarrassing confession

Your comment hits so very close to home!

It was seriously seeing and hearing one of my children chant that damn song that triggered my seriously considering leaving the church lo these many years ago. It truly captures the cultishness of the church.

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