Greg Haymes founded Nippertown, along with his wife Sara Ayers, in 2009. Greg was a musician, journalist, and ambassador to the Capital Region arts community. Greg passed in April of 2019, but his legacy continues.
Ironically, around the same time that this was performed on Lawrence Welk in 1971, then Vice President Spiro Agnew branded Brewer & Shipley as subversives. The show obviously never had a clue about the song’s true meaning, thinking that it was a gospel tune, giving credence to the phrase… “It’s whatever you want it to be.” Hilarious!
Dionysus says
Und there we heard a modern spiritual. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Ironically, around the same time that this was performed on Lawrence Welk in 1971, then Vice President Spiro Agnew branded Brewer & Shipley as subversives. The show obviously never had a clue about the song’s true meaning, thinking that it was a gospel tune, giving credence to the phrase… “It’s whatever you want it to be.” Hilarious!
Und there we heard a modern spiritual. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
I love the added emphasis they put on “Sweet Jesus,” as if they’re not trying to convince the audience so much as themselves.
If they only had a clue.
Oh! Now I get why my babysitter liked that song… (I haven’t heard that song since I was little.)
Railway station…trains…Jug Stompers catching out…Bowtie said they were rolling smokes…hmm… 🙂