“BUM, BUM.”
In large churches in Cumberland there was usually a choir of singers, but seldom, until quite recently in the smaller ones. The clerk was generally leader of the band, and after blowing the pitch-pipe, he used to intone on the keynote the first tune of the psalms to be sung. Some twenty or thirty years ago the inhabitants of a parish in the Lake district engaged a singing master to teach the church singers, some new tunes. He found his pupils not unapt, most of them being unable to read music. But when the music came to be wedded to Tate and Brady’s ihimbrtal 1 verse,” certain old gentlemen who sang bass were detected in substituting for the sacred words the inappropriate and monotonous syllables, * ‘ bum, bum. ” One of them on being remonstrated with thus replied, “ Yer ways may a’ be varra weel, but they duiynit suit me. A always dud sing bum bum, and a always will sing bum, bum.”
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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 442, 13 November 1875, Page 2
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163“BUM, BUM.” Globe, Volume IV, Issue 442, 13 November 1875, Page 2
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