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Regarding your post, Kyle, I wonder if those folks in the 18th and 19th centuries who wrote sound biblical hymns to the tunes of old saloon/bar songs would have considered those pieces of music -- regardless of the lyrics -- as being immoral (because they were essentially saloon/bar songs)!

What hymns do you know that were written to the tunes of popular drinking songs? A "bar tune" is something else entirely from a drinking song, I should note. It refers to the structure of the song, not to its place of origin. Neither Luther nor the Wesleys used the tunes drinking songs in the composition of their hymns, as is often claimed of them.

Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.