Re: alcohol and tobacco

Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:08:20 +0100
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Nick Milton <email-address-deleted> wrote:
>On Mon, 19 May 2003 22:17:30 +0100, Alan Zanker <email-address-deleted>
>wrote:
>
>>I once played the organ at an Anglo-catholic Rastafarian funeral ....
>>fascinating!
>
>What do they put in the thurible?
As it wasn't used I couldn't tell whether it was the usual incense or
something more exotic (:-).
It was a West Indian funeral at an inner-city parish church. As the
family had chosen the recorded music to come in and go out to all I had
to do was to play the standard hymns and something suitable while the
congregation (about 150) all came up to the open coffin to bid farewell
to the elderly deceased gentleman.
All was as I expected until the younger son came up to the lectern to
deliver a sung eulogy while his own son accompanied him on the guitar. I
thought at first that it was a gospel song but the words 'Haile
Selassie' and 'Let Jah arise and his enemies be scattered' occurring
from time to time certainly made it 'different'. At the end of the
service the people filed out to a CD in similar vein but even more
triumphant.
Alan