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To: DallasBiff
What's so offensive about those lyrics?

The song that offended me most during the summer of 1970 was "American Woman" by the Guess Who. At the time, it astounded me that this anti-American diatribe reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100.

I also had a problem with "Lay Down" by Melanie Safka, which I saw as being clearly an attempt to undermine our war effort in Vietnam. And I don't know what church Norman Greenbaum attended, if any, but I found the theology expressed in his hit song "Spirit in the Sky" to stray a long way from the standard Christian doctrine to which I adhered, and still do.

27 posted on 12/08/2017 2:51:43 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

“And I don’t know what church Norman Greenbaum attended, if any...”

Well, probably none because he was Jewish. The story goes that he just wanted to write a rock song inspired by Christian gospel music, even though he wasn’t actually a Christian.


66 posted on 12/11/2017 8:00:49 AM PST by Boogieman
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