Hello and welcome to
3ABN's Praise Him Music Network.
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This program is,
You Can Write A Song,
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and it's featuring Lanny Wolfe.
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Hey, Lanny!
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Yvonne, it's so good
to be here as always.
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It's so great to have you
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because you have
been already teaching us
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some really
important principles.
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In our last episode, we
learned about simplicity, right?
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Simplicity and repetition.
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And then today we're
going to learn about?
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The power of repetition.
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The power of repetition.
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The power of repetition,
repetition, repetition,
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repetition, repetition.
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That's what today is
about, about, about, about.
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And you know what?
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You know, I think that with
you breaking it down like this,
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it just makes it so
much easier to grasp,
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to hold on to and to implement.
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So I know you're gonna be
breaking it down for us today.
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And I really need it, and
I'm gonna be taking notes.
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And I'm going
to check your notes
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and I'm gonna give you a
test after it's all over.
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Oh, my God, you know what?
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To see how well you
were listening, Yvonne.
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Oh my God, this is
too much like school.
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Okay.
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But I love this
because I need this.
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And I think our viewers
are gonna really appreciate
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the fact that you are,
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you know, putting it
into bite size morsels for us
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so that we apply it.
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We need to be able
to apply it right away.
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So simplicity and repetition,
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if you miss that
episode, check it out.
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Now stay tuned.
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Just so you know,
neither 3ABN nor I
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are either endorsing or
necessarily recommending
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any of the following
slogans or references.
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I'm merely including them
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to demonstrate the
power of repetition.
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Both politicians as well
as company selling products
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are keenly aware of the
value of coming up with a slogan
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that will be
associated with them
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or their product that
sticks, sticks, sticks
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in the minds of the public.
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For example,
Dwight D. Eisenhower,
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I like Ike.
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Ronald Reagan slogan was,
let's make America great again.
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Hope and change was the slogan
for Barack Obama's campaign.
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And Donald Trump's slogan
is, make America great again.
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Every successful company
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that selling a
product wants a slogan
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that the public
associates with their product.
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Some of these
slogans and products
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that you're
probably very familiar
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with McDonald's, I'm loving it.
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Have it your way, Burger King.
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Its finger lickin' good
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and you know that's
Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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It melts in your
mouth and not your hand
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and you know that's M&M's.
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When you care enough to
send the very best, Hallmark.
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Nike, just do it.
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Dunkin, America runs on Dunkin.
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And like a good
neighbor State Farm is there.
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Maxwell House,
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coffee is good to the last drop.
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And the quicker
picker upper, Bounty.
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Wheaties has long been known
for breakfast of the champions.
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And they've always
used that as an opportunity
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to highlight Olympian champions.
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And last and
certainly not least, the few,
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the proud, the Marines.
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Now let's talk about songs.
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In our popular
culture of pop songs,
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every song writer
would love to have a song
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that has a line
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or what radio people call a hook
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that people remember.
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I'd like to call your attention
to a few of these songs
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that have had outstanding hooks.
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The Beatles, I
want to hold your hand.
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Michael Jackson, beat it.
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ABC, you know
that's the Jackson Five.
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Stayin' alive, the Bee Gees.
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Aretha Franklin, RESPECT.
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Elvis Presley,
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you ain't
nothin' but a hound dog.
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And YMCA, whether
you like it or hate it.
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It's been going on so many times
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that it's in your head
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whether you
want it there or not.
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Neil Diamond, Sweet
Caroline, and Pharrell Williams,
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oh, he wrote this wonderful song
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originally for a
Disney kids movie.
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But once we heard it,
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we couldn't get
it out of our head.
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It's the happy song.
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So why should a songwriter
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be so concerned
about repetition?
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If you're a poet or writer,
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and your poem or
book gets published,
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a reader has the
luxury to read and reread
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your poem or your
book as many times
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as he wants or needs
to in order to get it.
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But if you're a songwriter,
your song gets 100 words
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and if it's
played on radio or TV,
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you get three to four minutes,
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you get one time to make
an impact on the listener.
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And so that's
why it's so important
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the repetition helps
you to make that impact.
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It is well, written in
1873 by Horatio Spafford,
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the chorus focuses on one idea.
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It is well And use a repeat,
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it is well It is well Repeat it,
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it is well And it is
well It is well with my soul
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There's a great
story behind that.
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We'll talk about that later.
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But that is the
power of repetition.
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Some Lanny Wolfe,
Andrae Crouch songs
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that highlight repetition.
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One of the songs that God
has given me simply says...
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Jesus made me an offer
Jesus made me an offer so good
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That I just
couldn't turn it down
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I just couldn't turn it down
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I just couldn't turn it down
Jesus made me an offer So good
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that I just
couldn't turn it down
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Jesus made me an
offer. And I just...
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Well, I wonder what
this chorus is about.
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Take a listen.
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Jesus made me an offer so good
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That I just
couldn't turn it down
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I just couldn't turn it down
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No, I just couldn't turn it down
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Jesus made me an offer so good
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That I just
couldn't turn it down
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Jesus made me an offer
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I just couldn't turn it down
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Well, I wonder
what that's all about.
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I mean, it's one idea.
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And I'm just driving that nail,
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driving that nail
deeper and deeper and deeper.
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I love this little
chorus that God gave me.
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It simply says
more than ever before.
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Lord, I love You
more than ever before,
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Lord, I need You
more than ever before,
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I've got to tell
You, I love You now
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more than ever
before, shows up four times.
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And this illustrates a technique
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that songwriters talk about
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going in the front
door and out the back door.
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The very first
part of the first line
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is opening the front
door more than ever before.
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And the last
part of the last line
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going out the back door
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is the same phrase
more than ever before.
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I know that I could
never love Him enough,
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but I'm sure gonna try.
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I wonder what the second line
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of this Lanny
Wolfe's chorus is gonna be.
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I know that I could
never love Him enough,
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but I'm sure gonna try.
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If I would start right
now and do nothing else
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until the very day that I die,
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I know that I could
never love Him enough,
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but I'm sure gonna try.
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So I wanna call your
attention to the fact
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that I'm simply illustrating
the power of repetition.
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Not concerned about
the music at this point,
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and not really
concerned about the form.
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There's a fresh touch
of desire in my soul today.
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Lanny Wolfe is
gonna write a second line
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and you know, he's gonna do it.
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There's a fresh touch of
desire to go all the way,
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changed the last
part of the second line,
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for I've made up in my mind,
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I'm gonna make it come what may.
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Line four, there's a
fresh touch of desire
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in my soul today.
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Andrae Crouch,
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a great
songwriter of our generation,
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he wrote this little chorus.
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I don't know why Jesus loved me
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I don't know why He cared
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I don't know why He
sacrificed His life Oh,
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but I'm glad, so glad He did
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I don't know
why, I don't know why,
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I don't know
why, and glad, glad.
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Oh, one of my
favorite Andrae Crouch's songs.
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Through it all Through it all
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I've learned to trust in Jesus
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I've learned to trust in God
Through it all Through it all
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I've learned to
depend upon His Word
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So we get through
it all, through it all,
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I've learned
to, I've learned to,
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I've learned to.
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And so, he's keenly aware
of the value of repetition.
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Now I want to share with you
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one of my favorite
techniques for choruses.
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In the last session,
we used A, A, A, A prime.
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Now I'm going to talk to
you about an extension of that,
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a variation of that,
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and it's simply
AA and what I call
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internal rhyme
line B and then A,
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and I'll illustrate this.
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So AA line four is A,
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but it's that third
line where we divide it up
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and the middle of
the third line rhymes
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with the end of the third line.
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And the song
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I keep falling in love
with Him illustrates that.
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Let's take a listen.
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And I just keep
falling in love with Him
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Over and over, and
over and over again
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I keep falling in love with Him
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Over and over, and
over and over again
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He gets sweeter and
sweeter as the days go by
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Oh, what a love
between my Lord and I
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Just keep
falling in love with Him
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Over and over, and
over and over again
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So that internal rhyme
line on the third line,
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he gets sweeter and
sweeter as the days go by,
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oh what a love
between my Lord and I.
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And then I actually use that I
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to be the last
word of line three.
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And the first word of line four.
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I just, same technique on.
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I love the thrill that I fell
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when I get together
with God's wonderful people
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Love the thrill that I
feel when I get together
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with God's wonderful people
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What a sight just to
see all the happy faces
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That's the middle
of the third line.
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Praising God in heavenly places
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So we have faces and places,
internal rhyme line three.
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And line four is...
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Love the thrill that I feel
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when I get together
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with God's wonderful people
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Have a nice day is
another one of these choruses
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that illustrate this.
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Have a nice day with
Jesus Have a nice day
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Have a nice day with Jesus
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Have a nice day
Here's line three.
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You may wish the sun would
shine a little bit brighter
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But when you've got the Lord
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He'll make your load
a lot lighter Line four.
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So have a nice day
with Jesus Have a nice day
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One, two and four
are all ending with day
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and they're the same line.
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Here we are to gather again
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Just praising the Lord
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I wonder what
line two is gonna be?
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Here we are together
again Just praising the Lord
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Internal rhyme line three.
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It's been a while
since we've seen each other
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I'm glad to be with
my sisters and brothers
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So we have other brothers,
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and now line four.
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Here we are together again
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Just praising
the name of the Lord
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You got the idea
what's happening here.
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A song that you're
probably familiar with,
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Brooklyn
Tabernacle Choir recorded it.
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Jesus, we crown You with praise
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Jesus, we crown You with praise
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We love and adore You
Bow down before You Now,
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you and you is
officially not a rhyme,
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but it's working as a rhyme
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on that internal line
three and then last line
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Jesus we crown You with phrase.
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Let's take a listen to this.
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Jesus,
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We crown You
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With praise
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Jesus,
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We crown You
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With praise
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We love and adore You
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Bow down before You
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Jesus,
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We crown You
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With praise
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I love that chorus, I
love the way they did it.
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The Lanny Wolfe
Trio was in a concert
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in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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We were singing an upbeat
song and most of the audience
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were just
clapping along with this.
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I noticed about five rows back
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a little lady there was clapping
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and there was something a
little awkward about the way
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she was clapping.
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I also noticed that
folks to her left and her right
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were just sitting there
with their hand, arms folded.
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So as I looked more
closely at this little lady,
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she had this
great smile on her face.
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I noticed that her right hand
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was clapping
against her left elbow.
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Her left arm had been
amputated at the elbow.
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And so she was
clapping as best she could
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with what she had to work with.
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And I was so impressed.
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I mean, it just impacted me.
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I don't know the lady's name.
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I never found out her name,
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but leaving that
concert that night
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in the Silver Eagle bus, I
took out my pen and I wrote,
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I'm gonna praise the
Lord any way that I can.
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I want you to take a
listen to this and see
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if you can figure
out how line three
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is doing internal rhyme.
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Let's take a listen.
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I'm gonna praise the
Lord any way that I can
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I'm gonna praise the
Lord any way that I can
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I'm gonna pat my feet
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Lift my voice Clap my hands
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I'm gonna sing and rejoice
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I'm gonna praise the
Lord any way that I can
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I'm gonna pat my
feet, lift my voice.
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I'm gonna clap my hands
and honor that dear sister,
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I'm gonna sing and
rejoice, voice and rejoice.
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A chorus that I wrote, it feels
so good just being here again.
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It feels so good
feeling what I feel within.
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There's just
nothing I like better
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than God's
children getting together.
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It feels so good
just being here again.
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AA internal rhyme B,
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and those words that are
rhyming on that third line
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are better and together,
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peace and Jesus
in a troubled world.
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The Lord gave me this
song 30 some years ago.
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And wow, it's more
important and impactive today,
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there is peace in Jesus
in a troubled world today.
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There's peace in Jesus,
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and the world
can't take it away.
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Line three, and tho'
there's turmoil all around,
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I'm so glad I have found,
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there is peace in Jesus
in a troubled world today.
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And, of course,
internal rhyme line three
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was around and found.
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A new chorus
that God has given me,
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it's called
You're in our prayers,
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You're in our prayers,
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we've touched the
throne of grace for You.
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Your Father cares, you notice
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how I've paralleled the
first line and the second line,
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You're in our
prayers, Your Father cares.
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He's promised He
would see you through,
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You can be sure the Great I AM
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will make a way,
just trust His plan.
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You're in our
prayers, but best of all,
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you're in God's hand.
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This was a very
difficult chorus to write.
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I knew that it had to end
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in what songwriters
call the payoff line,
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or some songwriters in
the secular world would say,
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the money line.
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And the money line or
the payoff line would be,
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you're in our
prayers, but best of all,
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you're in God's hands.
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That comes out of nowhere.
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And that's the surprise.
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And that's the
punch of this whole song.
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So I really wanted line
three to end with a word
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that would rhyme with hands.
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And I feel, I
felt I wanted to have
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internal rhyme on line three.
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So here I am, I'm needing a word
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to in line three
that rhymes with hands.
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And so I finally came up with,
you can be sure the great I AM,
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will make a way
just trust His plan.
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Now that sounds easy.
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And it's written
and it sounds very easy.
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But I'm telling you,
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I would get in my
car and for weeks,
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I would just
toss phrases around.
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It was, this was one
of the hardest challenges
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of songs in recent
months that I've written,
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that I was able to finally.
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I know when a song is right.
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I know exactly
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when it finally
deserves to be born.
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I will not let it be
born until it's exactly right.
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We give You
praise, we give You praise,
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we give You praise,
Lord, You're worthy.
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With hands up
raised, we give You praise,
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we give You glory and praise,
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internal rhyme line
three, upraised and praise.
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The beauty of the name.
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It's so beautiful,
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the name of Jesus
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It's so beautiful,
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that precious name
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Here's line three.
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If you'll ask in
Jesus name Anything is yours
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just to claim And I
love that precious name
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So we have names showing
up on the end of line two,
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line four, and
we have line three,
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name and claim.
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So claim at the end
of line three is working
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as a rhyme with
the end of line four.
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So sometimes when I'm
doing internal rhyme line three,
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I actually want that to work
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with the last word of line four.
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Wow.
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To me songwriting
it's like a puzzle
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God gives me the
inspiration and at that point,
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I have to figure out how
to put the puzzle together.
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Andrae Crouch...
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To God be the
glory To God be the glory
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To God be the glory
For the things He has done
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With His blood He has saved me
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With His power He has
raised me Internal rhyme,
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to God be the glory,
for the things He has done.
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If you write that
out in eight short lines,
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you don't get the
impact of the form.
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But if you spread
it out into four lines,
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then you understand that we have
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to God be the glory, to
God be the glory, line one.
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To God be the glory
for the things He has done,
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line two.
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And here we have line three,
with His blood He has saved me,
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with His power He has raised me,
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internal rhyme line three.
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And last line,
to God be the glory,
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for the great
things He has done.
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Wow.
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Her name was Loretta Barnard.
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She was a
missionary to South Korea.
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She relays the story
that one day she was so sick,
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she couldn't
even pray for herself.
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So finally, after
that, a year later,
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she comes back
home and is on furlough.
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She's in a service in
Michigan and mentioning about
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this time when she was so sick,
she couldn't pray for herself.
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After the service, a dear sister
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came up to Loretta
and said, "When was that?
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What was the date?"
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And so, Loretta told
her the date and she said,
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"That was the very
day that God woke me up
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in the middle of
the night and said,
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get out of bed and
pray for Loretta Bernard."
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She said, "And I did."
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So I heard about this story
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and when I heard
about this story,
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God prompted me
to write this chorus.
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Let's take a listen.
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Someone
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Is praying
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For you
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Someone
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Is praying
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For you
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So when it
seems you're all alone
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And your heart
would break in two
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Remember someone
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Is praying
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For you
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That song has
ministered all over the world.
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It originally
showed up in a musical
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that Don Marsh orchestrated
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for the Benson
Company, greater is He.
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And so somehow it found its
way to the Asian communities.
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And it's unbelievable the impact
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that this song has had
on the Asian community.
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Let me just call your
attention to the fact that what,
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someone is praying for you.
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Someone is praying for you.
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So when it seems
you're all alone,
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and your heart
would break in two,
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remember someone
is praying for you.
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So internal rhyme line three.
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So it seems you're all alone
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and your heart
would break in two,
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that's not internal rhyme.
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It feels like it should be.
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Now I could have written that,
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so that it would have
been internal rhyme line three,
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I could have written line three.
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So when you're
all alone in blue,
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and your heart
would break in two,
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remember someone.
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Now, here's the
problem with that.
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If I would have
chosen to have had that
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as the internal
rhyme line three,
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then we would have had you, you,
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blue, two, you.
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That's overload.
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That's kill.
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So that's too much.
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So that's why we didn't
sense to do an internal line,
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rhyme, internal
rhyme line three.
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So this is the principle.
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When you're using internal
rhyme on the third line,
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basically those words
usually are different words
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than what the ends of
one, two and four are.
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So they are different words.
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I love the thrill that I feel
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when I get together
with God's wonderful people.
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Love the thrill that I feel
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when I get together
with God's wonderful people.
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What a sight just to
see all the happy faces,
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praising God in heavenly places.
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So we have faces and
places rather than people.
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Now there are
times when we will have
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internal rhyme
on the third line,
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rhyming with the
last word of line four.
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So I do
incorporate that like I did on,
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you're in God's hands.
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I want to call your
attention to the fact
00:24:38.54\00:24:40.18
that the song
someone is praying for you
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would never have been written
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if Sister Bernard
had never been sick,
00:24:45.55\00:24:47.85
or if she had been
sick but not so sick
00:24:47.88\00:24:51.29
that she couldn't
have prayed for herself.
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Or if the sister in Michigan
00:24:53.12\00:24:56.02
would have not been
spiritually sensitive
00:24:56.06\00:24:58.06
and listened to God's voice
00:24:58.09\00:24:59.43
and said get out of bed
and pray for Loretta Bernard.
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Or if all of that
would have happened,
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and I never heard the story,
this song would never been.
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Isn't that amazing
how God does all that
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for His honor and for His glory.
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So, I want to remind you,
00:25:13.81\00:25:17.05
that songwriting is so exciting,
00:25:17.08\00:25:19.48
when God anoints your heart
and your mind with some idea.
00:25:19.51\00:25:23.18
And I just want to
keep impressing you
00:25:23.22\00:25:25.42
that you
actually can write a song.
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In general, the
internal line for rhyme three
00:25:27.96\00:25:31.53
is just this exciting principle
00:25:31.56\00:25:34.30
that encompasses so
many Lanny Wolfe's songs.
00:25:34.33\00:25:36.90
So remember, I want
you to keep your ears,
00:25:36.93\00:25:40.47
your eyes, your heart open,
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you just never, never know,
00:25:43.47\00:25:46.34
when you might hear or see
some moment of inspiration,
00:25:46.37\00:25:50.21
that might be your
more than wonderful song
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that the world
is waiting to hear.
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You might write a song
00:25:55.92\00:25:58.09
that Lanny Wolfe
would never write.
00:25:58.12\00:26:00.69
You don't say like, well,
00:26:00.72\00:26:02.96
I maybe I couldn't
write it as good as him.
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Or maybe I couldn't
write as good as somebody else.
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No, no, if God gives you a song,
00:26:08.23\00:26:10.57
you write it,
write, write, edit it,
00:26:10.60\00:26:14.07
throw away, rewrite, write,
00:26:14.10\00:26:16.57
and then protect the
child that God has given you.
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And just be reminded that
00:26:19.21\00:26:21.11
this is
something that you can do,
00:26:21.14\00:26:23.35
you can write a song.
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Lanny, that was so full of...
00:26:31.92\00:26:34.62
It was
chock-full of information.
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Thank you so much for that.
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One of the things that I
loved about that is the formula,
00:26:40.00\00:26:43.40
the formula, the AA B,
which is the internal rhyme.
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Internal rhyme B.
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B which is and an A.
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And don't be surprised
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if you hear that
in one of my songs
00:26:52.41\00:26:54.01
that I'm gonna work on.
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No, I'm doing this,
00:26:55.64\00:26:56.98
so you can
learn to write a song.
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This is great. This is great.
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And I really do
want to implement
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this in my next
assignment which is...
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Next assignment
is using repetition.
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I want you to write
three or four choruses
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that use this new format
that is a favorite of mine,
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AA,
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internal rhyme line B, A,
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I need three or
four of those choruses.
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And by the way, our next session
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we're going to talk about
where do I get ideas for songs?
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It's one of my favorites.
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Oh, that's great.
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Where do we get ideas?
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Oh.
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No hands, but that's it.
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Okay, that's good. That's good.
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That's good enough.
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Well, thank you so much.
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I'm going to work on this
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and you have
something to work on to.
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Make sure that you tune in.
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If you missed the first episode,
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which dealt with
simplicity and repetition,
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make sure you
check that out as well.
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You know why?
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Because you can write a song.
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