Quote from Forum Archives on August 5, 2009, 10:23 pm

Posted by: rxdca <rxdca@...>

klsluder wrote:
> This Sunday we are having a baby dedication service (actually for the
> parents - dedicating themselves to raise their child in a Christian
> home) so the group wanted to do a couple songs aimed more at the kids.
> One of them is Jesus Loves Me which we do as a full blown rocker. The
> other is He's Got The Whole World In His Hands. It is a whole 2
> chords. Ran through it doing it straight. The singers were happy with
> it. The bass player and I looked at each other a wee bit bored. He
> said to me we ought to do this as a reggae song, and off he went
> playing it that way. I joined in and once the singers realized what we
> were doing they jumped in. It was a lot of fun. It is interesting how
> you can make a little adjustment and take a boring song and make it
> fun. We shall see if the congregation agrees.

There have been several songs over the years that I thought would be
cool to a reggae beat, but I have never been able to talk the worship
leader into it...

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