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New hymnbooks. Will Brite Music and the Osmonds be represented?

LDS Church leaders are asking Mormons to submit original songs for the first overhaul of the faith's hymnbooks in 30 years, according to a news release issued Monday.

The major revisions of "Hymns" and the "Children's Songbook," led by official committees, will eliminate national anthems and better reflect the global membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, leaders said.

The project is expected to take several years.

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“We thank thee o god for a Profit.”
“Give said the investment scheme, give oh give, give oh give.”
Or “Give said the little scam”
“Jesus wants me for a Pon-zi”

In My Time of Dying
Led Zeppelin

In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn
All I want for you to do is take my body home

Well, well, well, so I can die easy
Well, well, well, so I can die easy

Jesus, gonna make up/out siviers
Jesus, gonna make up my dyin' bed
Meet me, Jesus, meet me
Oh meet me in the middle of the air
If my wings should fail me, Lord
Oh please meet me with another pair

Well, well, well, so I can die easy
Well, well, well, so I can die easy

Jesus, gonna make up
Somebody, somebody
Oh, oh Jesus gonna make up
Jesus gonna make you my dyin' bed

Oh, Saint Peter, at the gates of heaven
Won't you let me in
I never did no harm
I never did no wrong

Oh, Gabriel, let me blow your horn
Let me blow your horn
Oh, I never did, did no harm

I've only been this young once
I never…

I was always partial to a tune from the "old" old Spanish hymnal, "Lavémonos los dientes" ("Let's Brush Our Teeth").

How about this oldie from Steppenwolf? It has some religious overtones and talks about the lovegrass that is about to be legalized in Utah:

Pusherman

You know I smoked a lot of grass
Oh lord I popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin
that my spirit could kill
You know I've seen a lot of people
walking around with tombstone in their eyes
But the pusher don't care, ah
if you live or if you die
God damn hmm the pusher
god damn hey I say the pusher
I say god damn god damn the pusherman

You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
with a lot of grass in his hand
Ah but the pusher is a monster
good god he's not a natural man
The dealer, for a nickel lord
he'll sell you lots of sweet dreams
Ah but the pusher'llruin your body
lord he'll leave... he'll leave your mind to scream
god damn ahh the pusher.
god damn, god damn the pusher.
I said god damn god, god damn the pusherman

Well lord if I were the president
of this land you know I'd declare
total war on the pusherman
I'd cut him if he stands and
I shoot him if he'd run and
I'd kill him with my Bible
and my razor and my gun
god damn aww the pusher.
god damn... the pusher.
I said god damn, god damn the pusherman!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN6eTXA0VlI

In terms of modernising the hymns...

How about “We Will Dunk You”

Smithy you're a boy make a big noise
Prayin' in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo' face
You big disgrace
Sellin' your scam all over the place
Singin'
We will we will dunk you
We will we will dunk you
Smithy you're a young man hard man
Preachin’ in the street gonna marry the world some day
You got jiz on yo' face
You big disgrace
Wavin' your rod all over the place
We will we will dunk you
Testify
We will we will dunk you

I have a question wrote:In terms of modernising the hymns...

How about “We Will Dunk You”

Smithy you're a boy make a big noise
Prayin' in the street gonna be a big man some day
You got mud on yo' face
You big disgrace
Sellin' your scam all over the place
Singin'
We will we will dunk you
We will we will dunk you
Smithy you're a young man hard man
Preachin’ in the street gonna marry the world some day
You got jiz on yo' face
You big disgrace
Wavin' your rod all over the place
We will we will dunk you
Testify
We will we will dunk you

Brilliant!

Missionary Man
Eurythmics


Well I was born an original sinner
I was born from original sin
And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done
There'd be a mountain of money piled up to my chin
My mother told me good, my mother told me strong
She said, "Be true to yourself and you can't go wrong
But there's just one thing that you must understand
You can fool with your brother
But don't mess with a missionary man
Don't mess with a missionary man
Don't mess with a missionary man
Don't mess with a missionary man
Oh, the missionary man, he's got God on his side
He's got the saints and apostles backin' up from behind
Black eyed looks from those Bible books
He's a man with a mission, got a serious mind
There was a woman in the jungle and a monkey on a tree
The missionary man he was followin' me
He said, "Stop what you're doin', get down upon your knees
I've a message for you that you better believe"
Believe, believe, believe, believe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
Believe, believe, believe, believe
Ugh
Hey
Ugh
Hey, hey, hey
Oh
Yea, yea, yeah
Yeah
Well I was born an original sinner
I was born from original sin
And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done
There'd be a mountain of money
Money, money, money, money
Money, money, money, money
Money, money, money, money
Money, money, money, money
Money, money, money, money
No, don't mess with him no, no
Oh baby
Don't mess with a missionary man
Oh
Please [Incomprehensible]
Don't you mess with him no, no
Don't you mess with a that man
Ahh, oho ho
Hey yeah



Songwriters: Annie Lennox / David Allan Stewart
Missionary Man lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

You just know that at Conference there are at least 15 people singing “We thank thee Oh God for a Profit”