The Tie Song

My cousin Grant gets home from his mission in less than 3 months. He's gathering Israel in Fukuoka, Japan. Wow. Time sure does fly. I can still remember the day he had his mission farewell. Grant gave a great sermon and said that film has to be put in harsh chemicals and agitated before it can be developed into a good picture. Somehow we are all like that. I knew he would be a good missionary because he was so passionate about sharing the gospel. He looked the part, too. Like all men giving speaking in church, Grant wore a suite and a necktie. But this wasn't any necktie. No way. This was a tie to travel the world.

Grant and his buddies all chipped in money and they bought one tie. The first guy to give his mission farewell wore it and signed his name on the back on one of the stripes. He gave it to the next guy who wore it at his farewell, who then signed the back and gave it to the next guy, and so on and so forth until Grant got it. He wore it to his farewell, signed the back, and passed it down the line.

It kept going down the line until the tie had its sufficiency of farewells. The last guy to leave sent it to the first guy in the field, who then kept it for a week and recorded his instances in the accompanying notebook. After a week he sent the tie and the notebook to the next guy, and so on and so forth. It's a lot like the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, but it's the Brotherhood of the Traveling Tie. And even though Grant gets home at the end of March, the tie will still circulate, weaving through continents and oceans.

A necktie to unite all these brothers together. Well I just thought this tie idea was the most brilliant thing ever. Absolutely brilliant!

So I wrote a song about it.
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The Tie Song
By Marcie Glad

Chords Em C G D

There’s a tie and it goes all around the world
It starts in the west and it moves to the north
Montana, Russia, Brazil and Japan
Gathering Israel in every land

CHORUS:
Truth, hope, faith in Christ
Conquering evil and spreading the light
Record your story, give God all Glory
------------The tie that goes around the world

I spend my days tracting my shoes have no soles
But I have seen miracles like crickets and gulls
I may have sore feet but at end I don’t care
I have but two years and no soul can I spare
CHORUS:

Truth, hope, faith in Christ
Conquering evil and spreading the light
Record your story, give God all Glory
------------The tie that goes around the world

All nations, kindreds, and tongues
Will know of the gospel of which I have sung
Though diverse in all things there’s one thing we’ll share
The gospel so go to your mission prepared

(no strum)
To teach them

Chorus’
Truth, hope, faith in Christ
Conquering evil and spreading the light
Record your story, give God all Glory
The gospel is the tie that goes around the world


It's a bad recording, but meh, what can you do?
I had to facebook/missionsite stalk people to get a lot of these pictures. Many thanks to Al Gore for inventing the Internet ;)

And here's the same video on youtube. I just wanted to do a side-by-side comparison of the quality of the movies.