Favourite Religious song?

[earth]

As I'm sure there are a few people here that can appreciate a good song, even if it does have religious connotations.

Mines:

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky

[mataj]

I hope, that irreligious songs count too here :)

My favorite is a song from an obscure album of an obscure artist, whose name I most regrefully forgot. I only have MP3 downloaded from www.mp3.com . If mp3.com ever comes online again, maybe I'll be able to find it. Anyway, here's the lyrics

Ktulhut

The time comes, the sea opens wide,
Kneeling to salute the Great Old One,
The dark waters are pushed aside
As the black towers swallow the sun.

As the door to His tomb, milenniums old,
Slowly creaks open, all over the world
The people revel in joy and shout,
Greeting the One the stars have let out.

All men of all races, all animals on Earth,
Killing each other in ways unknown before,
The turrent of blood, it signs His rebirth,
Ktulhut from the stars free once more...

Not dead and not willing to lie,
Strange Aeons, death has died.

© 1997 Ricardo Madeira

My favorite well-known songs are of course 'The Thing That Should Not Be', and 'The Call of the Ktulu' from Metallica.

[DeathMonkey]

My favorites are the techno version of Hava Nagila (I kid you not....it rocks!) and Mariah Carey's version of O Holy Night, my favorite christmas song. Its the only thing she's ever done that I like. But she tears that song UP. Fantastic.

I also love the soundtrack album Jeff Beck did of Vietnamese folk and religious music for that movie I cant remember (blush).

[GI Joe]

My favorites are the techno version of Hava Nagila (I kid you not....it rocks!) and Mariah Carey's version of O Holy Night, my favorite christmas song. Its the only thing she's ever done that I like. But she tears that song UP. Fantastic.

I also love the soundtrack album Jeff Beck did of Vietnamese folk and religious music for that movie I cant remember (blush).

Dick Dale does a rockin version of Hava Nagila




I like the old Negro spirituals especially Swing Low Sweet Chariot

[gopman]

Handel's Messiah, particularly "Every Valley Shall Be Exalted."

[ranger]

Bach's 'Jesus Joy Of Man's Desiring'

[MikeD4o7]

my favorite irreligious song lyrics.

The weakerthans - illustrated bible stories for children

Morning bright, rise.
Go over your lines.
Iron your carefully crafted disguise.
We'd all like to sing.
It's easy to sigh;
to sprinkle a handful or plausible lies.
Our buildings will rise,
poke out our own eyes.
Publicly smile and privately frown.
A weeping reprise. Please hear my cries;
I'd like to pull just this one building down.
So turn off the sky. Head in my hands.
Night keep me warm. White window-sill.
Blinded by heart. Cut my hair short.
"Eyeless in Gaza with the slaves at the mill."

[Craig]

My favourite is probably main theme from Jesus Christ Superstar.

[Oliphaunt]

Havah Nagila is probably the catchiest song ever written..

Wayfaring Stranger by Johnny Cash


I'm a poor wayfaring stranger
While traveling thru this world of woe
Yet there's no sickness, toil, or danger
In that bright world to which I go
I'm going there to see my Father
I'm going there no more to roam
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

I know dark clouds will hang 'round me,
I know my way is rough and steep
Yet beauteous fields lie just before me
Where God's redeemed their virgils keep
I'm going there to see my mother
She said she'd meet me when I come
I'm only going over Jordan
I'm only going over home

[DMann]

John, the Revelator...and.. Lord , I Just Can't Keep From Crying - Blind Willie Johnson

[Michele]

Havah Nagila is probably the catchiest song ever written..



a runner up to that would probably be the Amen chorus...

ay ay men
aaaaaymen
ay ay men

amen
ay sing it from the mountain.

ooo that would be a fun thread to open

an amen chorus thread.

[Michele]

As I'm sure there are a few people here that can appreciate a good song, even if it does have religious connotations.

Mines:

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky

on that note I would have to say then

joy to world
all the boys and girls
joy to the fishes in the deep blue see
joy to you and me.

if I were the queen of the world
I'd tell you what I'd do
I'd throw away the something and the something and the something
and make sweet love to you.

who wrote that I forgot?

[Michele]

okay seriously,

this is hands down my favorite religious song

God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
Lyrics by Randy Newman.

Cain slew Abel, Seth knew not why
For if the children of Israel were to multiply
Why must any of the children die?
So he asked the Lord
And the Lord said:

Man means nothing, he means less to me
Than the lowliest cactus flower
Or the humblest Yucca tree
He chases round this desert
'Cause he thinks that's where I'll be
That's why I love mankind

I recoil in horror fro the foulness of thee
From the squalor and the filth and the misery
How we laugh up here in heaven at the prayers you offer me
That's why I love mankind

The Christians and the Jews were having a jamboree
The Buddhists and the Hindus joined on satellite TV
They picked their four greatest priests
And they began to speak
They said, "Lord, a plague is on the world
Lord, no man is free
The temples that we built to you
Have tumbled into the sea
Lord, if you won't take care of us
Won't you please, please let us be?"
And the Lord said
And the Lord said

I burn down your cities-how blind you must be
I take from you your children and you say how blessed are we
You all must be crazy to put your faith in me
That's why I love mankind
You really need me
That's why I love mankind

[Oliphaunt]

well.. i consider this religious..

I was a highwayman, along the coach roads I did ride,
With sword and pistol by my side.
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.
Many a soldier shed his lifeblood on my blade.
The bastards hung me in the spring of twenty-five:
But I am still alive.

I was a sailor, I was born upon the tide.
And with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico.
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow.
And when the yards broke off, they said that I got killed:
But I am living still.

I was a dam builder across the river deep and wide;
Where steel and water did collide.
A place called Boulder on the wild Colorado,
I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below.
They buried me in that gray tomb that knows no sound:
But I am still around.
I'll always be around,.
And around and around and around and around.

I fly a starship across the Universe divide.
And when I reach the other side,
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can.
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again.
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain;
But I will remain.
And I'll be back again,

And again and again and again and again.

[Michele]

okay well then I consider this religious too (the other one was more irreligious)

this would be religious

INTO THE MYSTIC
LYRICS VAN MORRISON

We were born before the wind
Also younger than the sun
Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry
Smell the sea and feel the sky
Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic

And when that fog horn blows I will be coming home
And when that fog horn blows I want to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
And when that fog horn blows you know I will be coming home
And when thst fog horn whistle blows I got to hear it
I don’t have to fear it
I want to rock your gypsy soul
Just like way back in the days of old
And together we will float into the mystic
Come on boy...

[cpwill]

this is my favorite religion song as pertains to 9.11 and our subsequent foriegn policy.

Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord;
he is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored;
he hath loosed the fateful lightning
of his terrible swift sword;
his truth is marching on.
Refrain:
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

2. I have seen him in the watchfires
of a hundred circling camps,
they have builded him an altar
in the evening dews and damps;
I can read his righteous sentence
by the dim and flaring lamps;
his day is marching on.
(Refrain)

3. He has sounded forth the trumpet
that shall never call retreat;
he is sifting out the hearts of men
before his judgment seat;
O be swift, my soul, to answer him;
be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
(Refrain)

4. In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
with a glory in his bosom
that transfigures you and me;
as he died to make men holy,
let us die to make men free,
while God is marching on.
(Refrain)

5. He is coming like the glory
of the morning on the wave,
he is wisdom to the mighty,
he is honor to the brave;
so the world shall be his footstool,
and the soul of wrong his slave.
Our God is marching on.

[cpwill]

my favorite for fun is "swing low sweet chariot", my family has our own accapella version we sometimes do in church while the rest of the congregation sings the regular lines:)

[ramzi]

There was a song by motley crue once

[earth]

my favorite for fun is "swing low sweet chariot", my family has our own accapella version we sometimes do in church while the rest of the congregation sings the regular lines:)

That is a beautiful song and I'd love to see it sung in a church one day.

[cpwill]

it really is fun.

[gopman]

Being from Virginia, I'd be remiss if I didn't include at least one Appalachian song- I'll go with Marty Raybon's "Prayer Bells of Heaven."

[Ronnieraygun]

I have three...

I come to the Garden.
Just a Closer Walk With Thee by The Venice Beach Boys (The Mills Brothers?) From the movie, "White Men Can't Jump"
Oh Happy Day- The Jazzed up version done in the movie, "Sister Act"


EDIT: I nearly forgot a more recent country song that came out not too long ago called, "Long Black Train".

[DeathMonkey]

There are a few songs from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, especially "I'll Fly Away" that are also beautiful. Some of that old Appalachian stuff is so creepy, so hauntingm yet so beautiful. Kind of like the Appalachians themselves :)

[TampaWRX]

Heresy - Nine Inch Nails (sorry, that's as close as I get to religion) ;)

If I had to pick a song commonly heard in Chruches, I would pick Swing low, sweet chariot", as it is just so damn powerful when sung properly.

[DeathMonkey]

Whats the song from Sister Act? O Happy Day? Like that one too.

Hey, I am a music buff. Sue me. I also like "God Hates Us All" by Slayer.

[gopman]

There are a few songs from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, especially "I'll Fly Away" that are also beautiful. Some of that old Appalachian stuff is so creepy, so hauntingm yet so beautiful. Kind of like the Appalachians themselves :)

Good call on the O Brother soundtrack. I love those songs too. Another song that probably counts as religious is James Taylor's "Fire and Rain." In my opinion that's one of the best songs ever written.

[ukangel]

Funny you should mention the OBrother soundtrack, because "down to the river" is one of my faves.

Jerusalem maybe my absolute fav though.

[DMann]

publicly Taylor has said:

"Fire and Rain" has three verses. The first verse is about my reactions to the death of a friend. The second verse is about my arrival in this country with a monkey on my back, and there Jesus is an expression of my desperation in trying to get through the time when my body was aching and the time was at hand when I had to do it . . . And the third verse of that song refers to my recuperation in Austin Riggs which lasted about five months.


Privately, however, Taylor has admitted to friends that Suzanne was a girl he met when he was in the Austin Riggs mental hospital. They became close friends because they shared many interests and goals . . . He was deeply saddened when he found out Suzanne committed suicide several months after he left the hospital. At first, Taylor didn't find out about Suzanne's death for several weeks, because his friends were afraid that that if they told him he might do a lot of drugs or something drastic to escape the reality of his friend's death. So they waited until he was finished recording before to break the news to him.


that's what "fire and rain" is about.

[gopman]

Fire and rain is about shock therapy and a friend of james taylors who was in the notorius mental hospital, Greystone,,,in new jersey. Woodie Guthrie spent time there as well.

Shock therapy? I heard it was about his girlfriend who died in a plane crash. The words make sense if you think of it that way. It contains a prayer though so it qualifies as religious in my book.

[DMann]

I corrected my post. I actually knew it was about a mental hospital scenario. i should have looked up the details first. i heard that this Suzanne had had shock treatments and that it was the cause of the depression that led to her suicide. ...or someone's. I guess i wasn't very clear on the details.

http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/firerain.htm

[xexon]

Amazing Grace, sung to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun. Performed by the "Blind Boys of Alabama".



x

[Craig]

Please allow me to introduce myself,
I’m a man of wealth and taste... :devil:

[DMann]

that there song is a purty purty song.

[marv]

I may be an atheist, but there are many religious pieces I like.

If the Mormon Tabernacle Choir can sing it, I love it. If it can be played on some stately cathedral organ, I love it. If it's an old Scotch/Irish/English folk hymn, I love it.