Unrehearsed muck-up

Church this evening was good. Nick did the portion on “I Am the Bread of Life”. I was a participant in one of the famous items during the worship. It was from Sankey’s, and completely embarrassing. Of course there was no rehearsal, and it was pitched too high so it went up to F#, and none of the five of us really knew the hymn well enough to sing it with gusto. The result was a wavering quavery thin rendition of what could have been quite nice. I forget the name of the hymn. Next time I will politely decline. How can you get up on stage and present a song that you’ve never actually sung before? The redeeming factor was that there were five verses, so by the last verse one could sing it reasonably confidently!