St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

When my kids learned the popular story behind “Ring around the Rosy,” they were mortified. According to some folklorists, it’s actually about the Plague! But, that’s just part of childhood: having your everyday life soundtracked with catchy songs about weighty things you don’t understand. If you grew up in church, some of them had titles like “Father Abraham,” and “Who Built the Ark?” These deceptively simple tunes have lain dormant in your subconscious for decades, until out of the blue one day some sick pastor writes an email mentioning them. Then you spend the rest of the day catching yourself compulsively humming the tune, desperately trying to replace it with something else, (anything else!).  One of those for me was “Deep and Wide.” To my knowledge it only has a single line: “Deep and wide, deep and wide, there’s a fountain flowing deep and wide.” The gimmick is that the tune repeats, faster and faster, as each word gets replaced with silly onomatopoetic sounds, until all the participants collapse giggl