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We do The Doors Roadhouse Blues as Church House Blues...I guess. Changing the lyrics like...Woke up this morning and I got myself up here. Of course the save our city seems appropriate.
Anyway, that's the only one I can think of where we change the lyrics in a major way and not as a parody although it makes folks smile if they know the original. Sometimes we'll just change a word or two in a Motown song My Girl to My Guy...kinda funny cause we've done My Guy ...(Mary Wells) too once for a special. Motown songs had a lot of church influence in them and I think they fit well in modern worship especially the Marvin Gaye and James Taylor versions of How Sweet It Is (to be loved by you). That one sounds like a worship song or a psalm as is. Some songs just fit the change from a man/woman relationship to a man/God one. A good example is If Not For You by Bob Dylan. I've heard he wrote it for his wife but if you sing it as unto God it makes perfect sense and seems Psalm-like.
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