# Holy, Holy, Holy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 7, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221 "2005-10-07T17:22:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/1 "2005-10-07T17:22:34Z")
There’s a commercial on TV right now advertising a CD full of ‘your favourite hymns’. Not being a god-person, there’s only one hymn I like: _Jerusalem_. Anyway, they open the commercial with _Holy, Holy, Holy_. Every time I hear it I can’t help but think _Holy, holy, holy! Pass the guacamole!_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/2 "2005-10-07T17:26:08Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > Not being a god-person, there’s only one hymn I like: _Jerusalem_. Actually, as a Navy brat, I do also like _The Navy Hymn_. As a pilot, I also like the Air Force version. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/3 "2005-10-07T19:36:02Z")
Is there a question here? My $.02 - You know you’ve been watching the same channel TOO much when out of work for 10 months when you start remembering the order of the cheesy country clips played during the adds for “great country/bluegrass of the 60’s”… “I wish that I was on ol’ Rocky Top, back in the Tennessee hills…” then cut to “NORTH, to Alaska… NORTH, the race is on…” The worst part is that I’ve now got both of these clips going in my head, don’t know any more of the songs, and don’t like country music anyway!!! 😃 -Butler ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/4 "2005-10-07T20:10:57Z")
Not being a god person either, I still own three sets of Gospel recordings that I consider a must for any collection: _Elvis: the Complete Gospel Recordings_ (actually a copy of the original which I gave my sister)- pricey, but great. My only complaint is that I know I’ve heard the King sing a slow version of “Softly and Tenderly” that isn’t on here. _Tennessee Ernie Ford: The Complete Hymns_- man what a voice. \*[The Carter Family](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004RC8J/qid=1128715705/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/002-1661041-0100821?v=glance&s=music) \*- not gospel per se, more folk, but with lots of gospel included. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/5 "2005-10-07T21:01:23Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > There’s a commercial on TV right now advertising a CD full of ‘your favourite hymns’. Not being a god-person, there’s only one hymn I like: _Jerusalem_. And now you’re making me think of teeth. After that, I’ll think of Billy Joel’s _And So It Goes_. Then back to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer for about 40 minutes. “Is that Freedom Rock? Well, turn it up, man!” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/6 "2005-10-08T03:13:52Z")
> [@panamajack](#): > > And now you’re making me think of teeth. You should be thinking of buying a mattress! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/7 "2005-10-08T05:14:09Z")
Mom told me her Presbyterian choir had big trouble with a hymn that sang, “sleeps not, slumbers not.” When they sang it, it sounded like, “sleep snot, slumber snot.” They settled on only two of the singers sounding the “s” at the end of “sleeps” and “slumbers.” That sounded about right. The things you learn from amateur showbiz. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2005, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-holy-holy/325221/8 "2005-10-08T06:20:27Z")
I’m a hardcore atheist, but I get all weepy and goosebumpy from [The Old Rugged Cross](http://members.tripod.com/~Synergy_2/lyrics/ruggedc2.html).