What Did You Think Of The Songs Sung At The Kingdom Hall? (page 3)

dropoffyourkeylee

I used to keep a list of some of the old and antiquated words in the songs. I kind of liked them, as they were undoubtedly a carryover from the days the JWs used the King James. One was a verse about something being 'wise and meet', with meet being an old English word for appropriate. Another was something about Jesus dying 'on Calvary', which is a Latinized name that appears in the KJV but not in the NWT.

MeanMrMustard

It was always the best when the sound guy mixed up the track. The congregation would try oh so hard to sing the lyrics to the incorrect tune... confused as to why it wouldn't work... And then about 2 min in, someone would realize it, the song would stop and we would get a new track, the correct one, and everyone would try again.

road to nowhere

They make every effort to not sound hymn like. The old words and unusual grammar arrangements are poetic devices, not church talk. You find them in pop music too

Rattigan350

I didn't like when the 2009 song book came out. They changed the songs and I knew the older ones. I didn't like the changes just like I didn't like the changes to the NWT in 2013.

FFGhost

old and antiquated words in the songs

Our calls for succor he quickly will hear (see earlier post)

Even though mendacious men the truth deny, we know it's impossible for God to lie

I also "enjoyed" the Yoda-speak they used, to force the rhymes to work.

Remember this beauty from "Shulamite Remnant"?

Exclusive devotion, no gold can it hire,

Since blazings of love are like blazings of fire.

Unyielding as Sheol all true love will be.

Like flame of Jehovah is your love for me

"Tortured renderings" is an insult to the word "tortured".

My apologies for producing the ear-worms.

Overrated

I remember the old Kingdumb songs records with singing on it. I use to mix and scratch that up. My peers loved it.

minimus

I would like to hear the DJ version of Kingdom Songs.

Overrated

I wish I still had vinyl, turntables. A mixer, I would give you " Ho' in for Gee-hovah ".

Disillusioned JW

My most favorite WT song while I was a believing JW was the one which said "We are Jehovah's Witnesses", from the 1960s and 1984 song books. I even memorized its entire lyrics by heart - and to this day I still remember a considerable portion of the lyrics verbatum. Even though now I am an ex-JW (unofficially) and an atheist, I still really love that song.

However portion of the lyrics of that song are now different (see https://www.jw.org/en/library/music-songs/sing-out-joyfully/63-we-are-jehovahs-witnesses/ ). Compare the wording from the 1984 "Sing Praises" song book (Song 113: We Are Jehovah’s Witnesses!; see https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1101984133 ) with the current one (https://www.jw.org/en/library/music-songs/sing-out-joyfully/63-we-are-jehovahs-witnesses/ ) and Song 31: We Are Jehovah’s Witnesses! (see https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102009117 ) of the 2009 song book. I like the 1984 one much more, but maybe that is due to familiarity.

Stanza 2 of the 1984 says:

" ‘You’re my witnesses,’ God said.

‘Other gods you need not dread.

I am God Jehovah,

Sov’reign Lord and Head.

I both saved and showed to you

When no other gods you knew.

Keep publishing my name near and far;

Prove that my witnesses you are.’ "

In contrast stanza 2 of the 2009 song book says:

"Proudly we declare God’s name,

Bearing witness to his fame.

News about his Kingdom,

Boldly we proclaim.

Others thus may come to see

Truth from God that sets them free.

As they grow strong, their voices they’ll raise,

Joining with us to sing his praise."

Note also that the 1984 song includes a quote (at least partially) from the Bible but the 2009 one and the newer one (called "We're are Jehovah's Witnesses") from the song book called ' “Sing Out Joyfully” to Jehovah' do not.

Disillusioned JW

Davros, I loved that song also. It was probably my second favorite song from the 1984 song book (and 1966 song book?). A new version of it (with the words you quoted) appears at https://www.jw.org/en/library/music-songs/sing-out-joyfully/23-jehovah-begins-his-rule/ .

What Did You Think Of The Songs Sung At The Kingdom Hall?

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