Posted on 10/14/2005 4:41:59 AM PDT by chambley1
It sure is.
And it's just a musical version of an old, old story, anyway.
Which is why this Sandra Day O'Connor seat is so critical.
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia"
I always thought it was about Jimma Carter.
I thought about how that song would sound when arranged for marching band. I shuddered.
Its pretty obvious that the Band Director didnt like the devil losing in the song. Either that or he is a gutless POS.
Charlie Daniels. God's answer to the Dixie Chicks. A real American.
Go Charlie!!!
No, that would be "The Devil Came Out Of Georgia."
Slightly OT:
The one song I've ALWAYS wanted to hear arranged for Marching Band is Led Zepplin's "Black Dog". That guitar riff between the vocals would wear the brass out!
We butchered a lot of songs in marching band. I usually played bass drum (boom boom boom boom) or tenor drum (rat tatatat tatatat tatatat) so everything sounded the same except for the melody.
Even more OT: the best Led Zepplin I've ever heard was a bluegrass version of Stairway to Heaven out on the Shenandoah river.
My 10 year old son took up violin lessons at school and worked hard all of last year towards two primary goals:
1. learn to play the theme to Star Wars and
2. learn to play "The devil went down to Georgia.
IDIOTS!
Well, these are indeed the pre-eminate pinheads of academia. Some people are simply educated FAR beyond their intellectual capacity.
This 23-year-old Evangelical Christian considers "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" the best Country music song ever made. I know I am not alone, either.
Absolutely right. Satan is smarter (not wiser), stronger, more focused, tireless, relentless, merciless, and he's been doing what he does for thousands of years without a letup.
The only way to "beat" the Devil:
And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothershas been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. 11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.I am, BTW, expressing a view on the content of the song, if you take it seriously. Not on Charlie Daniels, nor this particular situation.
(Revelation 12:10-11)
Have you ever heard the "Dread Zeppelin" version of the song? Hilarious, but also probably close to what you're thinking of.
I think the band director needs to get a clue about what country music is all about. It's a ditty, and the devil gets beat.
By the director's standard, CS Lewis shouldn't have written "The Screwtape Letters."
In both Charlie's song and Lewis' book, there's no doubt who the bad guys are.
I once heard Dread Zeppelin play "The Immigrant Song."
One of the funniest things ever.
True enough, though according to 1 John, we have already overcome him.
Regardless, however, "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" is nothing more than a fun country music song with amazing string accompaniments. I don't know very many people who will go up and wager their souls against a fiddle of gold after hearing that song.
Do agree with all you have said. But I alsocan see Charlie
Daniels viewpoint on this. And IMO his song does not claim
that the fiddleplaying boy from Ga. did it all on his own.
That may be inferred -as the song does not explicitly claim
the boys talent were a gift of God.But taking th esong in
context-- I find a reasonable Country reflection of the
story of Job in it's lyric.I am not confident that Charlie
Daniels would say he believes any man can defeat the devil
without God's help.
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