Somewhere I got a folder of what is called Religious band in a box files. The only 'religious' songs I know, would be those out of a standard 50 year old Baptist Hymnal, and that would be 48 or so years ago.

Those types of tunes, some of which are still used by myself in Masonic Lodges, are fairly generic. They existed in Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist hymnals of the past, and all of the tunes like St. Anne's (O God our help in ages past) are all available and can be imported as midi files, and drums and stuff added.

What's in the hundreds of Religious Songs in that folder, well i didn't see anything I knew. I guess things have changed. I know that I play horn in a Brass Band and we play in a church and I see they have drums, guitars etc., plus some vastly expensive Rogers organ with a gizmillion stops.

I know lots of guys here are going to jump in, somewhere you'd think people would be sharing that stuff.

I'm going to church two more times, my parents are both over 80 and well...it's inevitable.

I left instructions to cook me up and scatter the rest over the south end of the lake I love. The great manitou is there, he must have made that place, it's too nice to have been made by muck. But that rock I sit on for 40 or so hours a year overlooking the loons and white pines is a good enough spot for me....

Prepare yourself for the deluge of help, it's like that around here...

John Conley
Musica est vita