{"id":580,"date":"2011-05-30T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2011-05-30T08:40:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T14:40:33","slug":"youtube-grover-henson-memorial-day-tribute-from-wjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"YouTube &#8211; Grover Henson Memorial Day Tribute from WJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n1wG5gxLF9Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=n1wG5gxLF9Y'>YouTube &#8211; Grover Henson Memorial Day Tribute from WJP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I created this video just using iDVD for a sermon this past weekend.  Its a great song by Bill Cosby called Grover Henson Feels Forgotten.  It came out in 1970, made it up to #70 on Billboard, and then disappeared.  I was six when it came out, so I don&#8217;t remember it.  I came across it at a garage sale about 15 years ago on a record, as I recall.  But it made sense on this weekend when the First Reading in the Lutheran lectionary was on Paul talking to the Athenians about their &#8220;unknown god.&#8221;  I took the angle of talking about not only our forgotten dead but the forgotten people in our communities that we in the church overlook.  So, enjoy the song.<\/p>\n<p>World, I&#8217;m writing you this letter<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m not the kind of guy<br \/>\nWho likes to complain but this morning<br \/>\nPrivate Grover Henson really felt forgotten<br \/>\nAnd you couldn&#8217;t have picked a worse time<br \/>\nTo drop that lonely morning rain<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s mail call again this morning and<br \/>\nI just disappeared from the end of the line<br \/>\nI guess you&#8217;d say, I&#8217;ve run out of excuses<br \/>\nAbout those lost letters of mine<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that last year&#8217;s income tax<br \/>\nWas the only mail I&#8217;ve gotten, that&#8217;s right<br \/>\nAnd they said I still owed a hundred bucks<br \/>\nAnd Grover Henson feels forgotten<\/p>\n<p>(Grover Henson feels forgotten)<\/p>\n<p>So, I wrote myself a letter<br \/>\nMmm hmm, are you ready for me<br \/>\nYes, I did, and I must have read it<br \/>\nTo just about everyone<\/p>\n<p>I signed it, your loving mother and<br \/>\nI addressed it to her favorite son<br \/>\nBut God knows I&#8217;ve never known her<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ve never known her love<\/p>\n<p>The only dad I ever had<br \/>\nWas my father up above<br \/>\nAnd, world, Grover Henson feels<br \/>\nForgotten in this early morning rain<\/p>\n<p>World, if my time should come tomorrow<br \/>\nCould I ask one thing of you<br \/>\nWould you send me one little letter, world<br \/>\nIf it&#8217;s not too much to do<\/p>\n<p>And could you have it<br \/>\nRead to me by a choir<br \/>\nI&#8217;d hear it wherever I lie<\/p>\n<p>And Grover Henson<br \/>\nWouldn&#8217;t feel forgotten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube &#8211; Grover Henson Memorial Day Tribute from WJP. I created this video just using iDVD for a sermon this past weekend. Its a great song by Bill Cosby called Grover Henson Feels Forgotten. It came out in 1970, made it up to #70 on Billboard, and then disappeared. I was six when it came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,35],"tags":[160,157,294,159,295,158],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture","category-music","category-video","tag-bill-cosby","tag-memorial-day","tag-music","tag-song","tag-video","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredjesus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}