{"id":1984,"date":"2018-01-12T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T07:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2018-03-07T11:17:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:17:05","slug":"song-001-3-4-2-3-3-2-2-2-4-2-3-2-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/?p=1984","title":{"rendered":"Song 029 – Simonton Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”]
\"\"<\/a><\/div><\/div>[nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.lds.org\/scriptures\/ot\/ps\/25?lang=eng” text=”Song 029 (text for Psalm 25)”][vc_column_text]\n\nhttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_029_910810_Simonton_Blues.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n[\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wphttps:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_029_910810_Simonton_Blues.m4a-content\/uploads\/Song_026_730405_Spring.m4a” text=”Download Audio File” margin_top=”10″][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”medium” open_new_tab=”true” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” url=”https:\/\/www.psalmscountdown.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Song_029_910810_Simonton_Blues.pdf” text=”Download Guitar Chords”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1\/2″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]This song was used as the music for Psalm 25<\/a>. Boy Scouts were not popular with friends at school when my boys were growing up. As they got a little older, they felt like it was shameful to admit to their friends they were involved in Boy Scout activities. Ben<\/a> would have been 15 when I made him go on the Boy Scout campout to Simonton. He stayed in his tent until it was time to leave in protest to having come on the campout. This was probably not one of my best parenting moments. I remember Allen Peterson saying, \u201cThat just isn\u2019t natural.\u201d I believe this was about when Allen was in Steve Feil\u2019s Bishopric as a counselor with me. Why did we go to Simonton? There were a lot of fire ants. It was hot. We sweated a lot. Lyle Rowbury had put his sweaty clothes on top of his tent, and fire ants had climbed up the support rope to his clothes to get some of the salt water and take it back to their nest. \u201cSweating in your tent in Simonton, in Simonton.\u201d We went to Simonton because my Uncle Glenn had gone bankrupt again. I had loaned him some money, and had bought some of his cattle. He had transported them to Houston, and I had placed them on the property of a friend who had moved out of Nottingham Country Ward and lived in Simonton. Several of us had agreed to use these cattle as the basis for a United Order experiment. Thus, the lines in the song \u201cwhere the animals run free\u201d and \u201cthe home of the order is Simonton, is Simonton\u201d and \u201cfeeding hay to cows in Simonton, in Simonton\u201d and \u201cListening to the moo\u2019s in Simonton, in Simonton.\u201d After the divorce and the tax problems (see Song 078 – Rain<\/a>), I ended up selling the cattle to my partner in China Cattle Corporation, Chuck Edwards. It turns out Roice\u2019s wife, Sarah Nemec, was raised in Simonton. Her father was a policeman there. There was a good Christian movie made about a murder case he was involved in there, and an excellent example of true Christian love. This happened years after the campout, and shows not all of the lines in my songs are right: \u201cNo one makes the news in Simonton, in Simonton.\u201d<\/p>\n

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