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This week our host Jim Adams for Song Lyric Sunday has given us the prompt of Excitement, Pleasure, Sentiment, Spirit.

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The goal is to take the prompt and profile a song that has it part of its lyrics or title.

Please consider carving out time to read the posts of other bloggers who responded to the Song Lyric Sunday challenge.

Rules for Song Lyric Sunday

Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it contains the prompt words or not.  If it does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due.  Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be.
• Make sure you also credit the singer/band and if you desire you can provide a link to where you found the lyrics.
• Link to the YouTube video or pull it into your post so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

Spirit in the Sky

My song this week is “Spirit in the Sky“. It was written in 1969 by a Jewish man who at one time in his life was a goat farmer. That goat farmer/songwriter name is Norman Greenbaum. The song became a hit in 1970.

Greenbaum began his musical career while a student at Boston University, playing area coffeehouses before relocating to the West Coast during the mid-’60s and forming Dr. West’s Medicine Show and Jugband. Writing “Spirit in the Sky” his goal was to write a religious rock song. Even though he was raised Jewish he substituted the Hebrew word for God with Jesus. The song hit the charts in the US in 1970 climbing all the way to #3.

In the United Kingdom, this song has reached #1 three times by three different acts. The first was Greenbaum’s version in 1970, then in 1986 Doctor and The Medics took it to #1, and finally in 2003 for Gareth Gates and The Kumars.

This has been used in many TV shows and films

Lyrics

Video

Next week the prompt is Amaze, Astonish, Curious, Shock, Surprise, Wonder