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uudreamersYesterday the Westboro Baptist Church came to my town, and we turned out as counter-demonstrators with our Standing on the Side of Love banner. Someone had helpfully brought the lyrics to Standing on the Side of Love, so we could sing it.
That song is hard to sing. The lyrics are not particularly memorable, and other people in the crowd can't learn it and join in very easily.
My friend E. who sings in the choir with me, suggested we sing the line "We are standing on the side of love," over and over to the tune of Sia Hamba. O.M.G. did that ever work a hundred times better.
Here's a choir singing the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzVNDy0TbAA
If you are ever out there in your yellow T-shirts and want to make the point about love, I highly recommend this. Listen to that tune and sing:
We are staaaaanding on the side of love, we are standing on the side of love.
We are staaaaanding on the side of love, we are standing on the side of love.
We are standing, we are standing, we are standing, we are standing on the side of love.
We are standing, we are standing, we are standing, we are standing on the side of love.
When we got bored with that we changed "standing" to "singing," "dancing," "living," "loving" (and "texting" when we got silly), etc.
Edited: E. tells me she learned this at GA, so maybe you all already know this trick!
Edited #2: Here's the local news story, where you can catch a bit of us singing "Standing on the Side of Love" to the tune of Sia Hamba.
http://www.wkow.com/story/13378002/madison-man-seeks-ordination-as-first-openly-gay-presbyterian-pastor?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6332733
It's a great story, too, about the Presbyterian minister.
That song is hard to sing. The lyrics are not particularly memorable, and other people in the crowd can't learn it and join in very easily.
My friend E. who sings in the choir with me, suggested we sing the line "We are standing on the side of love," over and over to the tune of Sia Hamba. O.M.G. did that ever work a hundred times better.
Here's a choir singing the song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzVNDy0TbAA
If you are ever out there in your yellow T-shirts and want to make the point about love, I highly recommend this. Listen to that tune and sing:
We are staaaaanding on the side of love, we are standing on the side of love.
We are staaaaanding on the side of love, we are standing on the side of love.
We are standing, we are standing, we are standing, we are standing on the side of love.
We are standing, we are standing, we are standing, we are standing on the side of love.
When we got bored with that we changed "standing" to "singing," "dancing," "living," "loving" (and "texting" when we got silly), etc.
Edited: E. tells me she learned this at GA, so maybe you all already know this trick!
Edited #2: Here's the local news story, where you can catch a bit of us singing "Standing on the Side of Love" to the tune of Sia Hamba.
http://www.wkow.com/story/13378002/madison-man-seeks-ordination-as-first-openly-gay-presbyterian-pastor?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6332733
It's a great story, too, about the Presbyterian minister.
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Date: 2011-10-09 06:47 pm (UTC)Man, I love the teal hymnal but sometimes I cringe when I see it show up in the order of service--I can read music and there's stuff in there that makes me go "oh god what is this!?"
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Date: 2011-10-09 06:58 pm (UTC)