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From the album Toulouse Street, Listen to the Music was a #11 Pop hit for Doobie Brothers in 1972.

Songwriter:
Tom Johnston


J's Journal:
This was one of our earliest attempts to sing a song about who we are, what we do, and why we do it. The opening line, "Practice in the basement, each Monday," is a reference to what we did (first in Jeff's basement, later in Rick's living room and finally Karl's basement) every Monday from 1990-98. Ironically, I think this parody was written during one of those Monday night practices in Jeff's basement. I did some dreadful harmonies on this song. We take a whole day now to record vocals for a song or two whereas we used to take a day or two for a whole album!
Stats:
Genre: Classic Rock
Length: 3:28

Christians Doin' Music
Parody of "Listen to the Music" by Doobie Brothers
(Psalms 96:1, 100:1)

Practiced in the basement each Monday
We sure knew an awful lot of tunes
But we had to find a way; we had a lot of things to say
What the music needs is a way to take the style
And change a word or two with some knowhow
Gotta get the message, put a song to it
We're in the world, but we're not of it now
Ohhh ... Christians doin' music
Ohhh ... Christian music
Ohhh ... Christians doin' music ... for the times.
There are words – you know better
Than the Word of God
'Cause you've heard them in your favorite song
We can take that, change it all around.
Oh, we gotta play that rockin' sound
If that all sounds good to you
And you see the way we see
There ain't nothin' this old group can't play
Grab your Bibles, pick yourself a line
Oh, we're gonna play it one more time
CHORUS
From the harp of little David
Playin' maskils and the psalms
To the crowd in Revelation
People praisin', trumpets playin'
While the world sings a song to God!
CHORUS

Psalm 96:1
Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.


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