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Track: Secular Songs
Artist: Joan Armatrading
Album: Into the Blues

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Name: Joan Armatrading
Spotify Genres: singer-songwriter
Followers: 303,821
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British singer, songwriter, and guitarist born December 9, 1950 in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. Armatrading moved with her family to Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, in 1957 and in the early 1970s, moved to London to perform in a repertory production of "Hair". Armatrading has been nominated twice for a Brit award as best female vocalist and has received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. She has been nominated three times for a Grammy Award, including being the first UK female artist to be nominated in the Grammy Blues category for her 2007 release "Into The Blues". She was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2001. Armatrading was part of Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" Tour 2008. Owner of [l=Bumpkin Studios], a purpose-built recording facility in the grounds of her home, in Surrey, where she has recorded most of her albums since [m74763]. She and girlfriend [a=Maggie Butler] entered a civil partnership on 2 May 2011, in the Shetland Isles.

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Release: Joan Armatrading - Into The Blues
Year: 2007
Genres: Rock, Blues
Styles: Blues Rock

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LYRICS

They're singing secular songs in the churches
And there's not a of word of God
It's all Schubert and Beethoven
Oh and lots of French love songs
So let's go down on Sunday morning
To hear that Jacob sermon read
Everybody dressed in their finest church apparel baby
Listening to the preacher eulogies

Then we'll pray
Pray
Pray
Yea we'll pray
Our souls will rise upon that day
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray we change to better ways

They're telling stories about love's passion
All about ménage a trois
Hear those heart felt Lieder
Coming from that deep bass voice
And whilst some sleep though this music
Others weep for all the pain
As they sing secular song in the churches baby
It's time to kneel let's kneel and pray


Yea we'll pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Our souls will rise upon that day
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Pray we change to better ways

Yea we'll pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray
Pray we change to better ways