| The Laundry Song By j o n c o d e r Sun was shining when I got up today I had no clean clothes What can I say? I rolled out of bed and put on any old thing Went to the laundry mat And I began to sing And when I got there the Holy Spirit came to me Opened my eyes, and I could see
Jumped with jubilation at the thought Got to the dryer and I thought a lot
I see God in the spin cycle
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| The funniest thing about “The Laundry Song” was that it was never meant to be a song. It started the evening after I wrote “Simple People”. I had been sitting in my room finishing up “Simple People”, and then came out to the living room and told Brent, my roommate, that I had written a song while doing my laundry. He jokingly asked if it was about my laundry and I told him yes and just made up whatever came to my head at the time. We were both cracking up by the end of the song and I thought that would be it was, just a little roommate joke. The next day I was with my good friend Lynne and I told her about “Simple People” and my little improv session. I played her what I could remember of the then untitled laundry song. She also found it very funny and told me I needed to finish it.
So about a week later I was working a demo CD
and I recorded one take of my laundry song. About a month later I played
“The Laundry Song” at the Baptist Student Union and since then I have been "the
guy who sings about his laundry and God." I guess I could think of worse labels to
bear. : ) |
