by Burden 9 Replies latest watchtower bible
I want to find a copy and the name of the GREEN SONG BOOK. Not the Pink one, nor the brown one. It is will over 30 years old. I need the name of it.
My grandfather told me once how much fun it was to sing from the Green song book. I think it was "OUTLAWED" or something. But I wanted to find the proper name and if anyone had a copy.
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How many times did you post this?
I answered your other posting.
hello Burden, this book was in use during the 50ies and sixties. We in Germany got a new one - in pink or violett - in sprinig 69 to learn already for the international congress that took place in Nuremburg in august 69
For you information: the green one was named in German Lieder zum Preise Jehovas in English songs for the praise of Jehovah. It had 91 songs.
The song 91 was played in Sweden when Olof Palme was buried after his assassination and the song 11 was written in the concentration camp, it is today in the new book too, but shortendend. Thats all I know.
But I know that the brothers missed some songs
Klaus
The song book of the 50's had tunes from hymns that were taken from other religions with the words changed. Imagine my surprise when I went to a Baptist Church and they were singing tunes I knew. They still played the piano back then too. After I left they started using phonograph records.
JW kingdom melodys' are so blaaaaaah! lol Even at conventions...boooring. I always found the music drowned everyone out,perhaps that was a good thing! hehe
They still played the piano back then too.
Ah, those were the days!...when each congo had its own way of singing, dependant on the tempo favoured by the pianist. Usually it was a blue rinsed sister who would approach the piano and pound the ivories...Another thing lost to the conformity of recorded discs
It was called: "Songs to Jehovah's praise"
It was a flecked green colour with a 2 lines of music bars and notes flowing in a wavy pattern across it.
Englishman.
my favorite song from the green one was Rejoicing Rejoicing (can't remember the rest of it.
my favorite song from the pink one was We're Jehovah's Witnesses. men make gods of wood and stone.
i was an infrequent meeting attender after the brown one came out so didn't really have a favorite.
my father used to sing and/or whistle a song from the green one.
there was a time i did not know the way a christian ought to go. i accused him of singing worldly songs and mom told me it was a kingdom song.
I really like some of the songs from the old green songbook. Some of them were quite rousing. When I was a kid, my congregation really got into singing them. There was one song (can't remember which one) where the men and women would split up the chorus, with the men singing one part and the women the other. We used to actually have *fun* with music back then. I have a copy of that songbook and like to play some of my favorites on the piano from time to time. The songbooks after the green one sucked. The brown one that came out in 1984 or so (I left right after they released it) is awful. Really awful. That's what happens when you allow only songs written by JWs.
Englishman.
