**** hope to revive the art of hymn writing at a time when the most popular new church songs are written for rock bands rather than choirs. ****
I hate “modern” religious music! It moans like a dying calf in a hailstorm, while the old time religion music “sang”!
Give me some Issac Watts or Fanny J Crosby! And any music done by THE CHUCKWAGON GANG is worth listening to!
One of my many favorites is I WANT TO BE READY TO MEET HIM from back in 1938, and many other in the old Baptist hymnal. The new Baptist hymnal is going over to some modern moaning music.
I WANT TO BE READY from 1938.
Verse
You may have your worldly pleasures
Your silver and your gold,
You may pile up all the riches
That this old world can hold;
But I’d rather have my Savior
And with Him firmly stand
For I want to be ready to meet Him
In the glory land
Chorus
I want (I want to be) to be ready (ready)
To meet Him by and by.
I want (I want to be) to be ready (ready)
To meet Him in the sky.
Oh, I want to be more like him,
And do his best command,
For I want to be ready to meet Him
In the glory land.
Verse
There is one thing I can boast of,
Salvation from the fall,
I’m an heir to wealth in glory,
My Father owns it all;
That is why I’m shouting happy
And go at His command
For I want to be ready to meet Him
In the glory land
Chorus
I want (I want to be) to be ready (ready)
To meet Him by and by.
I want (I want to be) to be ready (ready)
To meet Him in the sky.
Oh, I want to be more like him,
And do his best command,
For I want to be ready to meet Him
In the glory land.
And the way the Chuck Wagon Gang sings it is memorable.