Just Sing the Chorus, Please!
You know what annoys me? When someone who's leading a hymn decides that the congregation is going to sing all the verses of a song first, then sing the chorus once.
Perhaps you are someone who likes singing songs like this. You are quite puzzling indeed. I don't know what it is, it's just annoying to me.
Songs that I've heard sung in this manner are "How Great Thou Art" and "Alas And Did My Savior" / "At The Cross" / whatever your congregation calls that song.
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Haha, I have never stumbled upon this blog in my life, but-- amen! (And in my experience, it has been, "He Arose".) Why do we need to make the song any shorter? :)
Lady Jeanne,
Oh yes, "He Arose," or "Low in the Grave He Lay" or whatever it is called...I think it goes by multiple names. I can't believe I missed that one, considering I think it's the first one I ever heard sung in the all verses format.
I was going to say "Low in the Grave He Lay", but I see you've already got that one.
Another is "He Could Have Called Ten Thousand Angels", which I love to sing, but not when the chorus is saved until the end.
Ha! You must leave the dark side and come into the light. The Noninstitutionals where we have worshipped NEVER do this.=)
We ALWAYS sing all the verses and the chorus, with an occasional very, very rare exception (occasionally at a singing somebody will suggest it so we can get more songs in, but even that is most unusual).