Why didn't reverend Alden teach the Walnut Grove townsfolk new hymns? Were they all simple?

We always include relevant/contextual links of some sort in posts such as this, OP. Do better.

Stfu, r1.

This is the only clip I could find, r1. It's an old show.

It was the only song with lyrics that poor retarded Carrie could remember.

🎶 go tell aunt rhody

That Jesus Christ is dead 🎶

[quote]R2 elsewhere: Eldergays what do you prioritize above all else at the stage of life you are currently in? I love my human family, but my pets give me 100% joy.

They call the dumb animals for a reason, twat.

So why are they bringing in sheaves anyway? Makes no sense.

The hymn "Bringing in the Sheaves" is based on the King James Version of Psalm 126: “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” It's about the most inoffensive, non-denominational hymn out there; "Amazing Grace" runs a close second.

Reverend Alden later went on to become Pastor in Mayberry, NC as well as the Simpson's Springfield.

Because it looks like rain, R7.

I do think they could have done with some rollicking negro spirituals to liven things up.

Bringing in the Sheaves is a hymn that doesn’t specifically mention God so that’s probably why the producers chose it.

Bringing in the Sheaves was written in 1880 so it makes you wonder how everyone in Walnut Grove knew it, since it would have been a brand new hymn probably first introduced in larger churches and tent meetings.

OP obviously missed the later years when Reverend Alden would have the congregation sing disco classics like "You Sexy Thing" and "Got to be Real." It was anachronistic, perhaps, but boy did it shake things up in that church.

They sang “Onward. Christian Soldiers” when banishing the bullies from town AND when they blew up the town.

The producers did not shy away from mentions of god. Remember the hamfisted episode with Charles building theater in the wilderness to save James’s life?

Or the Christmas episode with the children lost in the blizzard and at the end, a woman is mourning the death of her husband and Charles reads out loud about the birth of Christ in the Bible as if that somehow made it better.

Building *the altar.

They later went on to sing "In the Garden of Eden" by I. Ron Butterfly:

[quote] The producers did not shy away from mentions of god.

Half-Pint even actually got to meet one of God's angels, played by none other than Ernest Borgnine, when her jealous wishes for her infant brother, Charles Ingalls, Jr., to drop dead were unfortunately realized. In shame and guilt she ran away to the mountains (of which there are so many in Minnesota), where she met the angelic Borgnine, who taught her all about God's mercy and self-forgiveness, if not about how to annoy Ethel Merman with a Dutch oven.

[quote]where she met the angelic Borgnine, who taught her all about God's mercy and self-forgiveness

He should have fixed her teeth instead.

This thread has me screaming with laughter.

Sobbing and shaking!!

[quote]Remember the hamfisted episode with Charles building theater in the wilderness to save James’s life?

Did the theater show nudie lantern pictures? Did they allow Injuns in or was it segregated? Lap dances cost one chicken or two baskets of eggs? I bet Doc Baker and Mr. Olson went. On Saturday night, most of Mankato was there.

Half Pint needed a cunt punch.