(thing) by futurebird Fri Jul 20 2001 at 5:28:58
If you know anything about Baptists you’ll know that they don’t like music or dancing (unless it’s for God, of course) The only thing Baptists hate more than music in general is Jazz in particular. Mostly because Jazz is interconnected with drinking and smoking and loose women (oh Lord help us!) To justify their hatred of Jazz Baptists ministers like to point out a little passage from the bible that shows the evils of music:


The Holy Bible: King James Version.
The Book of Daniel 3

 Nebuchadnez'zar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

4 --Then a herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
5 -- that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnez'zar the king hath set up:
6 -- and whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.
7 -- Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnez'zar the king had set up.

See? the cornet and flute are mentioned! That’s a Jazz flute and Jazz horn! And all that dancing you Jazz people do? looks like falling down and worshipping the idol if you think about it! Since Louis Armstrong played Jazz, he heard this compliant an awful lot. In response to this he did a Jazz version of “The Story of Shadrack” Using Jazz to talk about how Jazz is evil?! What?! (It kept the Baptists ministers confused for a good long time!)

Here are the lyrics:

Shadrack
 from Gospel According to Louis Armstrong

There was three children from the land of Israel
. . Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Took a trip to the land of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon
He took a lot of gold and made an idol

And he told everybody when you hear the music of the cornet
(sound of a cornet)
And he told everybody when you hear the music of the flute
(sound of a flute)
And he told everybody when you hear the music of the horn
(sound of a horn)
You must fall down and worship the idol

But the children of Israel would not bow down
Wouldn't fool em with a golden idol
I said you couldn't fool em with a golden idol

So the king put the children in a fiery furnace
He thrown coal and red-hot brimestone
Seven times hotter hotter than it oughta be
Burned up the soldiers that the king had put there

But the Lord sent an angel with the snowy white wings
Down in the middle of the furnace
Talking to the children about the power of the gospel

Well they couldn't even burn a hair on the head of Shadrach
Laughing and talking while the fire is jumping around

Old Nebuchadnezzar called "Hey there!"
(some guy shouts “hey there” in background.)
when he saw the power of the Lord
And they had a big time in the house of Babylon.
I like it! 2 C!s

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