Come sing a love song, come sing the blues,
Bring your cross and your dancing shoes,
If you`re undecided now`s the time to choose,
Between the glossy papers and our own good news.
The Rising Street Blues went down well in a couple of churches recently even though I sang the chorus - at least one hymn that can still be sung.
Rising Street is in Burngreave Sheffield.
David Mowat, the author and composer is living in Bristol and still a musician.
Well I never - this wonderful collection came to mind only the other day when I found myself listening to "The world turned upside down" by Dick Gaughan. I must dig my copy out - which of the songs should be put forward for the new Methodist collection of hymns and songs? I recall that "SofPandP" was compiled because "Hymns and Psalms" left out some lovely old songs of protest and praise that ARM didn`t want Methodism to lose.
