An Old Song

[Sam]

We had a recent thread about “It’s Real” and someone also mentioned “Something Got Ahold of Me” on there. Today I thought about this old song titled “Pentecostal Music” and I thought I would post it.

Bro. Norman Paslay and Sis. Mary Alice Paslay were assistant pastors to Bro. F.E. Curts back in the nineteen fifties and sixties in Cincinnati, OH. This is one of the songs they used to sing.

My wife and I used to sing some together and this is one of the songs we used to sing. The attached picture shows us in late summer or early fall of 1959 at The Church of Jesus Christ Pentecostal Faith in Indianapolis, IN. (note those short sleeves on her maternity top). I was 21 and she was 18 and we were expecting our first baby. I preached there one weekend and then we went back home to Cincinnati on a Greyhound bus. Bishop G.R. Brock was the pastor of the church and was the Presiding Bishop of an organization called The Church of Jesus Christ Pentecostal Faith. Later, in the early nineteen sixties I was licensed with that organization. but let my license lapse when we started going to an ALJC church in 1963 or 1964.

Pentecostal Music

Verse 1
The Holy Spirit came sent forth in Jesus’ name
The bottles were all filled with glorious wine.
Oh, what a time they had! They must have felt so glad!
They shouted and they talked in tongues divine.

Chorus
And there was music there, music there
The Hallelujah Chorus was heard there.
Throughout eternal day the saints in Glory will say,
“I”m glad I was a pilgrim there.”

Verse 2
Samaria heard the Word and all the town was stirred
And hundreds were baptized in Jesus’ name.
Some could not understand how it was through Peter’s hand
They got the Holy Ghost there just the same.

Verse 3
Proud Paul made no delay to persecute the way.
While on the road to town God knocked him down.
‘Twas hard for him to kick against the Gospel prick
He fought the fight of faith and won the crown.

Verse 4
Cornelius he was just, be born again he must,
So Simon Peter nothing doubting came.
The Jews were sure surprised but they were all baptized
And water was applied in Jesus’ name.

Verse 5
In Acts nineteen verse 1 we read God’s work was done
When Paul in Ephesus certain disciples found.
He asked if they’d received since they first believed
And soon the Holy Ghost was coming down.

Verse 6
The Lord has never changed. His plan is still the same
And thousands are baptized in Jesus’ name.
His Word has proven true, the Spirit’s promised you
The Pentecostal fire is still aflame.