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"Trouble in the Amen Corner" is a late 19th or early 20th century poem by Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh.〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=poetryexplorer.net )〕 In 1960, Archie Campbell turned a slightly modified version of the poem into a country gospel song, with spoken words. The song quotes from the hymn Rock of Ages, which is mentioned in the original poem. Campbell's version reached #24 in the ''Billboard'' country music Top 25. == Description == The elderly Brother Eyer habitually occupied the Amen Corner, where the most vocally devout worshipers congregated, in a "fashionable church" with a "stylish congregation". But: '' And nearly every Sunday he would mispronounce the words Of the hymns, and 'twas no wonder; he was old and nearly blind, And the choir rattling onward always left him far behind. The chorus stormed and blustered, Brother Eyer sang too slow, And then he used the tunes in vogue a hundred years ago; At last the storm cloud burst and the church was told, in fine, That the brother must stop singing, or the choir would resign. The pastor authorizes a deputation to tell him to desist. This breaks the old man's heart. The other churchgoers soon forget him, but he is now singing sweetly in another place. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trouble in the Amen Corner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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