Kingdom Melodies Writer Revealed!
by Stephanus 5 Replies latest jw friends
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tdogg
OWWWWWW!!! Mine eyes! Mine eyes! That was horrible, kinda like listening to Kid Rock.
"We're Jehovah's Witnesses\ We speak loud and fearlessly\ Ours is the God of true proph-e-sy\ What he fortells comes to be"
Hmm, maybe you are on to something. -
Incense_and_Peppermints
ugh. his work is some of the most insipid, idiotic stuff i have ever had the misfortune to read...
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josephus
when i was a boy, we were evacuated from our home because of a train crash and the chemicals that were released.
we stayed at the toronto assembly hall, i met the chap who wrote a lot of the kingdom melodies. he was a nice man.
josephus
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Stephanus
McGonagall was probably a "nice man" too - it didn't improve his work!
I remember being shown some of his stuff in English, back when I was doing the Higher School Certificate. Spike Milligan actually did a film about him and his obsession with Queen Victoria. Spike also used him in The Goon Show - he had a crappy poet named William McGoonical introduce the odd show.
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GentlyFeral
Yeah, but you never know who the Muse is gonna inspire, just because She can!
Consider these two verses from "The Moon":
Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the fox in the night,
And lettest him see to steal the grey goose away
Out of the farm-yard from a stack of hay.And then, the LAST VERSE...the verse that usually ties up the poem in a neat tidy law-abiding moral...
Beautiful Moon, with thy silvery light,
Thou cheerest the poacher in the night;
For thou lettest him see to set his snares
To catch the rabbit and the hares.That's brilliantly subversive, that is. I think I'll go and do something similar, on purpose.
gently feral