Tunesday : Spirit in the Sky

Spirit in the Sky

(Greenbaum, N) Doctor and the Medics

When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's the best

Prepare yourself you know it's a must
Gotta have a friend in Jesus
So you know that when you die
He's gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
Gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
That's where you're gonna go when you die
When you die and they lay you to rest
You're gonna go to the place that's the best

Never been a sinner. I never sinned
I got a friend in Jesus
So you know that when I die
He's gonna set me up with
The spirit in the sky
Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best
Go to the place that's the best

I haven't posted a video from the 80s in a while and it's always hilarious to me when I discover one like this that was just so bad. I loved the song back in the day, danced to it at the clubs, but I had no idea what the band looked like or how awful the art direction for its video might have been: who talked Doctor and the Medics into any of this? Hilarious.

So, to the point: This past Saturday, as part of our summer of the Grand River, we went on the Whisper to the Moon paranormal night paddle. It makes sense to me to save the details of the night for my Halloween post this year (having nothing else new and spooky to otherwise report), but I will record here that paddling a raft down the Grand River under a nearly full moon, while listening to the stories of our guides from SNIPE (two Haudenosaunee men who examine local reports of ghostly phenomena as part of "Six Nations Investigators of Paranormal Encounters"), made for an intriguing and spooky evening that fit perfectly into our overall project of exploring the Grand and its history. And the picture at the top just might be evidence of a ghostly presence. 'Nuff said about that for now, but the experience certainly seemed to suggest that something does survive death and here's hoping we all get to the place that's the best in the end.