Man it has been a long time - I nearly forgot the password to this blog. Shocking. Consider my knuckles rapped and back in the game...
So I was going through my normal routine of choosing some songs for this coming Sunday at Kings and as I was perusing a list of songs something jumped out at me. There are quite a few songs that start with the word 'Oh' - Oh Happy Day or Oh Lord I am devoted to you for example, but then there are also quite a few songs that start with the word 'O'. Hmmm I thought, perhaps the 'O' should be an 'Oh' and I just typed the song title in wrongly. But no, if you google for example Matt Redman's O Sacred King or the traditional O Lord my God when I in awesome wonder (How great thou art), you'll see it is definitely an 'O'.
Now I am no English scholar, I think the apostrophe looks pretty and should be used wherever possible. But what is the difference between 'O' and 'Oh'? Is this some deep dark secret about the English language that I've missed?? More to the point should I be using more 'O'ing in my songs? Deep theological questions...
Perhaps I should email Redman and ask him why he used an 'O' instead of an 'Oh'. To be honest, when I look at the lyrics of songs that use either I have to wonder why the word is there at all - I mean, it doesn't really mean much or add much to the line - apart from make it fall under the meter a little better. Anyhow - it is all good - but if anyone out there has any hard and fast rules about when to use 'O' and when to use 'Oh' I'd certainly like to hear it :)
Anyway, this brings me on to my next topic of my new song: 'Oooooooooooooo Lord you are a legend'. What a catchy title. More about this soon.....
