People Get Ready

Last night, after mass, I tried to explain to two young men how the song, People Get Ready, reminded me of the Anglican Ordinariates because I saw the various Anglican groups as parts of a train, like the train in the song "picking up passengers from coast to coast."

That some Anglican groups would have one car, some, like the Anglican Use parishes in the states, might have a string of seven, some might even have a locomotive or two.

They were both too young to know the song. (More at The Anglo-Catholic)

Every year, my brother used to produce, first a tape, then a CD, of Christmas songs that he would do with some of his musician friends and some of mine from my old partying days in Boston. My brother is five years younger, but when he grew up, the age difference shrank and when the second tenor dropped out of my friend's a capella group my brother joined in---the only white man. But man, can he sing. And harmonize. They do this song better than anyone else.

Christopher and Michael, I will play this for you sometime.

In the meantime, I looked it up on You Tube.



Here's Curtis Mayfield:



Here's a version by Al Green that, well, it ain't Anglican, but got me praising God and wanting to dance, and well, I did dance. I used to love Al Green when I was in late teens and early 20s--but his love songs, not his Gospel music.