I was reading a post today about the kingdom songs we sang as JW's.

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  • Now What?
    Now What?

    I am embarrased to admit mine...#191 "Make the truth your own"

    NW? (of the 'dodging rotten fruit' class)

  • stillajwexelder
    stillajwexelder

    Song Number 8 "Loyally submitting to THEOCRATIC order"

  • Mysterious
    Mysterious

    I always thought the 10,000 at your right hand and 10,000 at your left hand in the various verses was referring first of all I believe to myriads of angels but the subsequent to myriads of brothers? Though I certainly didnt keep a songbook to reference this now.

    As much as I have a love for music I certainly have tried my hardest to stamp any of that out of my system. I dont know. I associate music with pulling me through hard times in my life, calming my emotions, strengthening me. I dont want to associate any music with that pit of despair. And I certainly dont want to start humming brainwashing songs under my breath. Its taken a while of over thinking the national anthem, or a favorite band's lyrics, maybe some chanting to finally stamp most of that from anything but deep recall and Im happy with that. As a child I know I used to pride myself on my ability to memorize such things and nothing made me prouder to stand there with a closed song book able to keep up with everyone else. I just have better things to commit to memory now.

  • dorayakii
    dorayakii

    I never liked the normal ones we sang every meeting like "God's Promise of Paradise" and "Life Without End At Last"... Even when i was a borg drone, i hated the one we sang at every Assembly: "Make the Truth Your Own"

    I was into the ones we sung rarely like God's Own Book a Treasure: "There is a book thats by its many pa-ges, brings peace and joy and hope to human kind"...

    and Jah provider of Escape: "Je-ho-vah, provides escape, for... the... loy-al"...

    I also liked the one about Lazarus "Lazarus lay sleeeeeeping, in a stone cold grave"... lol...

  • dorayakii
    dorayakii

    I also liked "The Victory Song"... the one that goes: "Siiing to Je-ho-vah, for heee has become highly ex-aaaal-ted,

    the hooooorse and its riiii-der, he has piiiitched into the seeeeaa"...

    and the "But the Bible" one: "DARK DAYS ARE HERE, MAN LIVES IN FEAR,

    WITH DIRE EXPECT-AAATION, AS TO ALL CRE-AAATION....

    but the bible gives us a hope for the end.... la la la la laa-la, la la la la-laaa"

    I really liked the tunes... i never ever paid attention to the words, i just repeated them. I thought about the words of one song once, and i was quite surprised.

  • Ingenuous
    Ingenuous

    I still like #77 - I think it's "Jehovah God is My Shepherd." (Don't have a songbook in front of me at the moment.)

    I used to tell my folks that, if they had to bury me, I wanted that song at my funeral. (How macabre!)

  • Crumpet
    Crumpet


    Song Number 8 "Loyally submitting to THEOCRATIC order"

    Stilla - are you kidding - wasn't that one where you needed a vocal bypass or a eunuch's operation to achieve the high notes!

    I admit I really enjoyed singing the kingdom songs. especialy when I was disfellowshipped and used to belt them out in my best voice from the back of the hall so everyone would feel my presence however hard they tried to pretend I wasn't there!

    Ingenous - Jehovah God is my Shepherd was easily my favourite. However when I started school at 14 and heard the Lord Is My Shepherd a very common British hymn I was struck by how similar they were - not just words but tune as well.

    I've got a tape I did for my grandparents of me and my sisters and cousins singing and playing "A Paradise - our god has promised" when we were little. Must dig that out...

  • Ticker
    Ticker

    I like "Israels Son", oh shit thats right thats Silverchair not kingdom melodies.

    I don't like any of them, their all wanna be classical compositions. The only one that sticks out in my mind is "Keep your Eyes on the Prize", because my Grandma made me memorize the whole song and repeatedly sing it when I was young.

    Their songs are so repetitive and they really need to jazz them up, but their so paranoid about music they probably never will.

    Ticker

  • Virgogirl
    Virgogirl

    That awful "let's watch how we walk and watch how we talk, that thus we may be alert and wise!" Cute little ditty. There was a hard of hearing sister named Mildred who used to sing in alto real loud. And there were little instructions in parentheses like (lilting). What does that mean, lol?

  • Lilycurly
    Lilycurly

    LOL, such great memories!

    I remember one of the elders always asked people to pay attention to the lyrics as they sang, and he repeated it everytime he was presenting a song. Make sure the brain gets washed toroughly.lol Yes, there was always one or two people who sang very loud and/or very off-key. Or those teenage boys that keep trying to sing but make weird squicky noises.

    My father was always giving the dirty eye to a group of teenagers who pretended to sing but just moved their lips, they also couldn't stop giggling...and when they did sing, they did very soflty and changed words to fit their minds. I'm pretty sure they are not still JWs today.lol

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