So, how many of you were familiar with the song before?

[xiphias]

The "Boom de ada" song that the Discovery Channel ad uses -- how many of you sang it at camp and so forth, and how many of you never heard it before the Discovery Channel or xkcd version?

I love the mountains
I love the rolling hills
I love the flowers
Especially the daffodils
I love the fireside
When all the lights are low
Boom de ada boom de ada
Boom de ada boom de ada

Comments

[tylik.livejournal.com]

*blink*

What? (upbringing reference?)

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

I was raised in a Christian cult, as xiphias knows. It was a reference to that.

[tylik.livejournal.com]

How broadly did the songs about the earth bit go? I seem to remember a lot of specifically Christian songs about tilling and sowing and suchlike...

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

See above re cult.

[tylik.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who says that she spent most of her childhood in a Christian cult, where in summer camp was a recruitment strategy, and I think they'd adopted a lot of the Quaker songs. This did not apparently (to her) make it less cult like.

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

I was raised in the Worldwide Church of God, an old-testament based Christian cult. It was one of the more isolationist of the cults that stays in the mainstream. About eight years ago the at the time new Pastor General (head of the cult) started moving it more mainstream and now it's a Sunday church and recognized by some of the kookier mainstream evangelical Christian organizations, but when I was a kid, it was nucking futs.

We weren't supposed to sing songs like "This Land Is Your Land".

[tylik.livejournal.com]

Ah! Okay, that's a metric I can see.

"Sunday church"? Does this mean that it's something people can just attend on Sundays and still have life outside of church, or was it an other-than-Sunday church before?

[noveldevice.livejournal.com]

It was a Sabbath church.