Start Out Low - Garrison Keillor cover

Описание: An excellent bass singer's warm up. An obscure find whose original and only airing, I believe, was on Prairie Home Companion were Garrison sang this with Isaac “Dickie” Freeman, the stalwart bass of the Fairfield Four for many decades. (Air date: Nov 1, 1997 at 49:15) https://www.prairiehome.org/shows/582...

The lyrics I sing, shown below, vary from the original as my 85 year old ears could not make out all of the words in the original and I added a personal verse.

Start Out Low (Garrison Keillor, with my humble help)

A preacher said to his deacon, we need thunder in this place
A foolish man will go astray if he cannot hear some bass
So he prayed and prayed on bended knee ‘til the Good Lord heard his plea
And answered with this promise: You can count on me!”

Once the Good Lord said to Daniel “You are a child of grace
I’ll send you down to Babylon and there you will sing bass”
Daniel said unto the Lord “That I cannot do”
And the Good Lord said “If I can raise the dead, I can make a bass of you”
Oh, you must begin at the bottom if His mercy you would know
He’ll raise you high on the day you die
But you gotta start out low. Oh, you gotta start out low.

The Good Lord said to Jonah “You are a child of grace
I’ll send you down to Ninevah and there you will sing bass”
Jonah said unto Lord “I’m afraid that I will fail”
But he got real deep in about a week in the belly of the whale
Oh, you must begin at the bottom if His mercy you would know
He’ll raise you high on the day you die
But you got to start out low. Oh, you got to start out low.

The Good Lord he looked down on me and saw a child of grace
He sent me off to Vancouver and there I now sing bass
As a lad I sang Soprano with the purest voice around.
But the Good Lord said “If I can raise the dead, I can help that man get down”
So now I sing at the bottom and His mercy I would know
He may raise me high on the day I die
But for now I’m singing low. Yes, for now I am singing low.