I was driving to work yesterday and for no apparent reason began humming dem dry bones. Everyone knows the song, even Generation Z, also known as the Internet Generation, who have lost the power of speech in that they are forever texting, twittering, facebooking or emailing.
It started me thinking: Why did someone write a song describing which bones are connected to which other bones? Why did it become so popular? And why does it have a refrain of “Hear the word of the Lord”? It was truly a strange thing mystifying.
The more I thought about, the more the damn song kept going around in my head, so eventually I looked into the lyrics.
You can hear the song, using the version from that delightful Pommy series The Singing Detective, at:
