Dad & Jason, You’ll Both Love This
It’s not often you get to hear, and see, someone make a public embarrassment of themselves in church by absolutely butchering (and that’s putting it kindly) one of the best hymns ever written.
But today I will provide you that opportunity. I don’t know who the perp is, what church this is, whatever — but I’m going to find out.
Meanwhile, you watch this video. And I’m sure Dad and Jason will bust their guts laughing at this one. Take it easy though Jason, we don’t want your kidneys to fail you at the ripe old age of 19.
This guy sounds worse than the Kelso COGOP “Singspirations” that I had to sit through while growing up. The Singspirations, while a decent idea in theory, were an embarrassment in reality — they were hymn singing festivals where they tried to get everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, who was in church that evening to sing something out of the Blue Book. No one was exempt, even those who could not sing.
The result? Brother Baker lost hearing in his left ear.
The justification? “Oh, they’re singing for the Lord.”
Anyway, I now present “Omazing Grace.” It gets AWESOME around the two-minute mark. Watch it all.
And be sure to notice the communion table with the prominent text right behind him — “This Do In Remembrance of Me.”
10 Comments, Comment or Ping
Paully
well, that sounded pretty “special”
Aug 10th, 2007
Sybil
Funny, I don’t ever remember you going to a singspiration. In fact, we attended the Vancouver church until you were an older teenager. Now we did tell you about them, and when we did attend the Kelso church years later, we skipped the few singspirations they did have. It just wasn’t our cup of tea.
Aug 10th, 2007
Dad
Man am I ticked off! I wrote that version and should have had it copyrighted. Now that dude’s world wide famous from my SONG!!!!
Aug 10th, 2007
paully
I can tell if that was short bus special or brown bottle special.
Aug 10th, 2007
Chris
It was the Kelso COGOP Singspiration special.
Mom, I remember one I went to as a member of the youth group. Jason and I were sitting in the back with a friend of ours and could not stop laughing.
Some people attended those things more than they attended the regular church services…gave them a chance for their “voice to be heard.”
Aug 10th, 2007
Sybil
This guy is a hoot! He says “everyone sing”, but you can hear the people struggling to sing with him, he’s that bad. Dad and I watched it last night together and I said I wish they put the camera on the audience, I would have loved to watch their reaction.
Aug 11th, 2007
Jason
Wow, yes, we did attend something similar to this in Kelso. I think we called it “Worship Service.” Then mom and dad, pat and patty, and Rose saved the day and started a worship team. Yes, we did go to one singspiration though, and yes, the youth laughed.
-Jas
Aug 11th, 2007
Chris
That singspiration was great. I think everyone except the entire Brewer family sang if I remember right. I remember they asked Dad to get up there and sing, just like the olden days, and he said no in the best way he could.
Dad always had a way of respectfully turning down offers to do something he didn’t want. He’d just cock his head to one side, slowly shake it “no,” and just simply say “That’s okay, maybe some other time.”
Gotta love Dad.
Aug 11th, 2007
Jason
I laughed so hard when I watched it for the second time. I seriously think he is touched.
-Jas
Aug 11th, 2007
B-Rye
Well, if theres any silver lining he at least didnt stop to say “I’ll make up for it now” before killing the final part of the song.
Aug 11th, 2007
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