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SIDE ONE:   "PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION"
SIDE TWO:   "LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING"
YEAR:  1942
GENRE:   Blues / Gospel
RECORD LABEL:   RCA - BLUEBIRD 30-0806
RECORD TYPE:   78 RPM - 10 inch
ARTIST:   THE SOUTHERN SONS
RECORD CONDITION:   ALMOST NEW
SLEEVE CONDITION:   ALMOST NEW
     This song describes a chaplain being with some fighting men who are under  attack from an enemy.  He is asked to say a prayer for the men who were  engaged in firing at the oncoming planes.  The chaplain puts down his Bible,  mans one of the ship's turrets and begins firing back, saying "Praise the Lord  and pass the ammunition".      Chaplain Forgy appeared on the game show "I've Got a Secret" in an episode that originally aired May 18, 1955, and recalled the story as follows:
            "Well, I was stationed aboard the USS New Orleans, and we were tied up              at 1010 dock in Pearl Harbor when we were attacked again.  We were             having a turbine lifted, and all of our electrical power wasn't on, and so              when we went to lift the ammunition by the hoist, we had to form lines             of men - form a bucket brigade - and we began to carry ammunition up             through the quarter deck into the gurney, and I stood there and directed             some of the boys down the starboard side, and as they were getting a             little tired, I just happened to say, "Praise the Lord and pass the              ammunition."  That's all there was to it."