How many times have you heard a singer in church get up and say, "Don't listen to the way I sing it, just listen to the words". Well, we were shooting a live video a while back and we were doing a brand new song and I really messed up the words to the second verse. I turned to the guys and said, "don't listen to the words, just listen to the way I sing it". Well, if you think that is funny, then you will know why we do our sound checks at the venue 3 hours before the concert starts when no one is around.
Gus and I both write music and every now and then when we've all been on the bus one day longer than we should be, we will begin to rewrite some familiar gospel songs with some pretty funny lyrics. I guess when your day job is music and then your weekend job is more music you just have to have a release at times.
What makes these rewrites so funny is that we are both approached daily by people who want us to hear their music. Every now and then we hear some great songs. More times than that we hear songs that are average. But every now and then when God proves to us that HE has a sense of humor, we get some that are absolutely hilarious. One in particular that comes to mind was when I was hired to go through a publishing catalog to sort out the good, the bad and the ugly songs. I pulled up a certain group of songs by a writer. I was listening and made it through the first verse and chorus when the second verse started. The demo singer (who was the writer) began singing with all the emotion in the world about how Paul and Silus were thrown into the fiery furnace but there wasn't 2 men in the fire, but three including the Holy Spirit. If you don't find the humor in that, then you, like the writer, have been in church and learned just enough about the Bible to be dangerous!
So, in disbelief, I went back listened to it again. Sure enough, somebody was half asleep in church when they were inspired to write that little diddy. What is even funnier or more sad, depending on how you look at it, is that I have played that song for "professionals" in our industry and they make it all the way through the song and don't even catch the scriptural inaccuracies. "Don't listen to the words, just listen to the way I sing it"!
LeFevre Quartet
http://www.lefevrequartet.com/
Author: AGM
| Author's Website: http://absolutelygospel.com/
Written: 05/04/2008
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Category: LeFevre Qt
Comments: 5
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I came to this web page and looked for the name of this group but it isn't listed(Just name "Gus" and a picture).
Unfortunately there is a lot of truth to that. We do need to pay more attention to the lyrics of a song rather than the artist who sings it & I'll admit I don't always do that, either.
God is good all the time & all the time God is good.
Elaine Harcourt
Great article David. I am with you on this. There is nothing that turns me away from someone who sings a good or bad song than when they say that phrase before they sing. God gives talent and confidence and we should always know that God will bless what we do. Scripturally based lyrics are a problem in many areas of Christian music. If it doesn't line up with the Bible then there is a big problem, no matter how it is presented.
Hi Jan,
The group is The LeFevre Quartet and their website is http://www.lefevrequartet.com
Thats why I don't put anything on the air untill I hear it all, and if its not in the Bible its not in our play list.
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