Van Morrison... Kingdom Hall

by Simon 14 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gopher

  So glad to see you
  So glad you're here
  Come here beside me now
  We can clear inhibition away
  All inhibitions
  Throw them away
  And when we dance like this
  Like we've never been dancin' before
  Chorus:
  Oh, they were swingin'
  Down at Kingdom Hall
  Oh, bells were ringin'
  Down at the Kingdom Hall
  A choir was singin'
  Down at the Kingdom Hall
  Hey, liley, liley, liley
  Hey, liley, liley, low
  Do do do do do do, do
  Do do do do do do
  Do do do do do do, do
  Do do do do do do

  Good body music
  Brings you right here
  Free flowin' motion now
  When we're shakin' it out on the floor
  Good rockin' music
  Down in your shoes
  And when we dance like this
  Like we've never been dancin' before

  Repeat Chorus

  Down at the Kingdom Hall
  They were havin' a party
  They were havin' a ball
  Bells were ringing out
  And the choir was singin'
  Hey, liley, liley, liley
  Hey, liley, liley, low
  Do do, do do, do do, do do
  Sugar was there
  Did you see Sugar
  Down at the Kingdom Hall
  Sugar was tough

  GopherWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
  Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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  Undine

  ~Had to put in a wink for 'Tupelo Honey!'~

  Undine
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  Stealth

  So what was the name of the Kingdom Hall song?
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  Esmeralda

  We can clear inhibition away
  All inhibitions
  Throw them away

  ROFL! Oh yeah, this guy wasn't a JW long LOL. I don't know WHAT hall he went to but it sure as hell wasn't mine LOL.

  Brown eyed girl...there is a song that I never really cared for, being blue eyed and all but then, recently, Everclear did the COOLEST cover of it and I've had it on a loop in my cd player all week. Of course, I have a new appreciation for brown eyes since I met Justin anyway :) He's my brown eyed boy.

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  Gopher

  Stealth (and all others still interested),

  The name of the Van Morrison song in question is, quite simply, "Kingdom Hall".

  Please note these comments from the Van Morrison website regarding Mr. Morrison and his association with, well, a Kingdom Hall:

  The Morrisons were a fairly secular household, Protestant only insomuch as they were not Roman Catholic. Van could go to Sunday school at the Brethern Gospel Hall in the street, or to the slightly more middle-class St. Donard's, which was Church of Ireland. Then suddenly his mother became a Jehovah's Witness.
  No one seems sure exactly how her conversion began or how long it lasted, but what is certain is that she became an ardent member of the local Kingdom Hall sometime during the 1950s. Some of the older members can still remember Van attending morning services with her, but George Morrison never made an appearance.

  Her sudden conversion must have had an effect on her son, because if she was sincere in her beliefs she would have read the Bible to him regularly, and issued stern warnings about the dangers of leading a life outside the Lord. It also compounded his feelings of being an outsider: who else in Belfast had a father who played Jelly Roll Morton records, and a mother who indulged in doorstep evangelism?

  "I was just on the periphery", he says of his contact with the local Kingdom Hall. "My mother went for a few years. We didn't go to church all the time, but it was a very churchy atmosphere in the sense that that's the way it is in Northern Ireland".

  GopherWhy shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
  Mark Twain (1835-1910)