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St Peter & St Paul Parish Church Christ Church, Fulmodeston

Rector Marriage Preparation Croxton Road, Fulmodeston, Revd Francis Mason 01328 862268 Amanda Sands 01328 878218 or NR21 0LZ [email protected] 07789 225011 Priest in charge The Rectory Office 01328 862268 Stepping Stones Revd Francis Mason 01328 862268 Gladstone Road, Fakenham, Elaine Burbidge 01328 851848 [email protected] NR21 9BZ [email protected] Messy Church Churchwarden For parish information, baptisms and Ann Rae Sims 01328 864537 Andrew Lee 01328 878870 wedding bookings also see our website. Mothers’ Union Please feel free to contact us about Church postcode (for satnav) - Felicity Randall 01328 862443 services and events or the Rectory NR21 9BX Office where enquiries about Church Women’s Guild baptisms, weddings and funerals can The Church is open from 8.45am - Joy Gill 01328 863632 be made. 4.00pm every day Church Flowers Readers Judith Smyth 01328 864061 Elaine Burbidge 01328 851848 Amanda Sands 01328 878218 Bell Ringers Kevin Allcock 01328 853928 Churchwardens Support in Loss Group Roger Burbidge 01328 851848 Judith Smyth 01328 864061 Keith Osborn 07887 877650 [email protected] Christmas Tree Festival Fabric Officer 07999 532002 Judith Inward 01328 855269 Beacon Editor and advertising Find us online: Church Treasurer Linda Frost 01328 862919 June Berry 01328 863643 [email protected] Web www.fakenhamparishchurch.org.uk Sacristan Beacon Treasurer Patrick Sheppard 01328 855013 John Dunn 01328 856644 Fakenham Parish Church

Beacon Distribution Child Protection Officer @fakenhampchurch Paul Nielsen 07798 766357 Elaine Burbidge 01328 851848 [email protected] Vulnerable Adults Officer 01328 862268 Website Administrators via Rectory office Heather Schofield 01328 878216 [email protected] Organist/Choirmaster Keith Osborn 07887 877650 Jonathan Dodd 01328 862268 [email protected] via Rectory office

Last copy date for the November 2017 Beacon is October 5��. Ready for deliverers on Saturday 28�� October.

- The BEACON - 2 - Contents Viewpoint

Page 2 Contact details Growing…

Page 3 Viewpoint I have never enjoyed gardening. I like looking at the end result and eating the many vegetables that Page 4 Audrey Sharp Michael grows, but the very meets Andrew Lee thought of getting dirt under my fingernails … Page 5 FDHA Early Autumn However this year I bought some Show tiny plug plants from a Sunday newspaper for baskets and tubs which we grew on in a fairly Page 6 Town Talk small, plastic greenhouse. We ended up with 3 wall baskets on Page 7 Bits n’ Pieces the front of the house, 4 hanging I believe that at times I can be like baskets and 4 troughs in the the seed in all the different places. Page 8 Prayer Space backyard. I’ve never seen so Sometimes I don’t remember much colour there! Geraniums, what I’ve heard, sometimes I listen petunias and lobelia. I did manage Page 9 Out & About with Kay and take things in but then get to plant a few for myself but distracted, sometimes life and discovered that I still don’t like Page 10 What’s On worries take over, but sometimes I dirt under my nails! listen and remember and learn. Jesus told stories called parables. It’s like being at school. We don’t Page 11 What’s On and A parable is a simple story used remember everything we are told Community Archive by Jesus to illustrate a moral or but most does sink in eventually! spiritual lesson. My favourite is Page 12 Catch up with the parable of the sower. You can But I still don’t enjoy gardening, Fulmodeston & read this in Luke’s Gospel chapter and especially getting dirt under 8 verses 5 to 15. Services at Fakenham my fingernails! It’s the story about seed growing Linda Frost in various different places. On the Page 13 The Alto’s Lament footpath, on rocks, among weeds Fakenham Parish Church and Advertising and on good soil. Jesus explained Registers the meaning of the parable to his Pages 14- 20 listeners. The seed represents the Baptisms Advertising Word of God. That on the 20�� August footpath is heard but then quickly Cousins Zaylen Bird and Isaac Bird taken by the devil, that on rocks 27�� August George O’Donnell grows to begin but has no roots 3�� September Ethan Raisbury so dies, that growing with the Weddings weeds is choked by cares and 9�� September worries, and that on the good soil Loren-Louise Geldart & Carl Haller has a good harvest. Funerals 4�� Sept. Sidney Burton 83 So, what can we discover about 5�� Sept. Don’t forget to put your clocks ourselves from this? Margaret ‘Peggy’ Chivers 86 back an hour on 29�� October. 18�� Sept. Margaret ‘Peggy’ Ladbrooke 85 Treat yourself to a lie-in!

- The BEACON - 3 - Andrew Lee, Retired teacher and church warden, Fulmodeston

Andrew and Gill Lee have had a home foreign language abilities. I'm fine with in Fulmodeston for over thirty years English! and now in Andrew's retirement, he is If you could change something about church warden, helping to care for an yourself, what would it be? - I'd like to ancient church that is at the heart of stop worrying. the village community. Andrew's Do you have a gadget you couldn't do childhood and teenage years were without? - No. But I would be most spent in Lowestoft and Stevenage and upset not to have access to Radio 4. he graduated from Gonville and Caius Who has been a great influence in College, Cambridge in history and then your life? - My father, who died when I trained as a teacher. His father was was twenty-one. also a teacher and they spent many What's the biggest decision you've holidays and school trips in made on the spur of the moment? - I learning to sail. He took up a don't think I've made a decision on the temporary appointment for a year at spur of the moment. I'm not Harrow school in 1975 and thirty eight indecisive, it just takes me a long time years later he retired as Senior Master! to make a decision! He primarily taught history but also What is your greatest strength? - My held a number of roles in the school ability to make the distinction between Have you any regrets? - A number, but over that time. Being a master at those decisions that can be made I learned a long time ago that there's Harrow is also a way of life, being part quickly and those that require some nothing you can do about the past. of the whole life of the school both thought. What is the secret of happiness? - academically and pastorally. The Your earliest memory? - I remember Learning to accept that not everything school is a close knit community and seeing the Bascule Bridge in Lowestoft, can be perfect. an interesting place to live and bring the fishing boats in the harbour and What's the one thing you are really up his own family of two daughters. the steam engine on the quay. good at? - I don't give up on things and Gill had her own demanding career, What do you collect? - I have a modest I didn't give up on any of my pupils. becoming Director of Midwifery at the collection of the Observer series of Any particular ambitions? - For Gill nearby Northwick Park Hospital. He books. and myself to live long enough to see maintains his sporting interests of What concerns you about modern our grandchildren emerge into sailing, hill walking in the Lake District life? - What doesn't concern me? adulthood, with the ability to be and is an expeditions' assessor for the There appears to be a decline in fulfilled in themselves and to be moral Duke of Edinburgh award at gold level. community, of respect and politeness people. He has run three marathons for a and a sense of social responsibility and If you were Prime Minister for the charity dear to his heart. He is a awareness. day? - Reverse all the organisational volunteer with the Have you ever bought a self-help changes that have taken place in Railway and has worked his way up to book? - No, but I have sought help. education and the NHS since 1979! being a steam engine driver - every Favourite restaurant? - The Crown in What would you rescue from your boy's dream! Wells or The Moorings in Blakeney. I house if it were on fire? - The wooden What do you like best about am most content in a good Norfolk pub trunk containing all the family Fakenham? - It retains the appearance with decent bar food and a pint of memorabilia. of a small market town with a sense of Wherry. What would you not be seen dead community. What makes you happy? - Our wearing? - The clothes I used to wear Is there a motto you like to follow? - daughter and her family, especially the in the early 70's! From Anglo-Saxon, translated as 'Fate grandchildren. Is there a person you admire? - will prevail', in other words 'in life stuff Or angry? - Any form of injustice, Abraham Lincoln. I have a particular happens'! violence or hatred. The thought of it on interest in him and once published a What do you like most about modern a large or domestic scale makes me modest book on his life. life? - For those lucky enough to have angry. What did you learn from your them, the comfort of modern housing Do you have advice that you'd like to parents? - My mother died when I was standards and access to modern pass on? - Never react in haste. a child so I learned most from my medicine. How would you like to be father. He was demobbed after the What particular talent would you like remembered? - As somebody who war with the idealistic vision that to have? - We've all got lots of talents. occasionally managed to do some good things had to be made better. I learned I'd like to develop my music and and didn't do any harm. to love and to care from him.

- The BEACON - 4 - Fakenham and District Horticultural Association has 70 members and holds four flower and produce shows per year. It celebrates its Centenary in October. The next show, the Late Autumn Show takes place on Saturday 4th November, at Fakenham Community Centre, from 12 noon to 3.30pm. For more information, contact Pat Jones 01328 862350 ([email protected]) FDHA Ealry Autumn Show. Photography by Keith Osborn Photography. Used with permission

- The BEACON - 5 - TOWN TALK

The 17�� Christmas Tree Town Talk trip on a TRAIN. All those aboard could Festival 2017 30�� November - As you may well know, our cinema is remember the days when Fakenham had its own trains - in fact one of 7�� December now under new management. The Hollywood sign has gone and Central Fakenham's stations was just down the Plans for CTF 2017 are progressing well has returned. Picture houses around the road from where Cranmer House now and donations for the raffle and country are experiencing difficult times stands. For most of them it had been a tombola are coming in slowly but with more and more of us choosing to very long time since they had been on a steadily. We will still be delighted to enjoy home entertainment rather than train so this was a very special day. receive more! 'going out'. Just recently the Fakenham Our intrepid twenty, along with the The next significant event is the meeting Film Society held its sixth AGM and Hub's staff and volunteers boarded their for all charities on Wednesday 18�� considered how best to continue train in Dereham. A train just like those October at 7.00pm in Church. Each offering a good selection of monthly they used to use back in the day - the charity must be represented, and that films not on general release here. Like ones with compartments. ( Can you representative must be someone who all such organisations, the society remember those trains too?). The will be actively involved during the depends on its membership to survive. journey took them from Dereham to festival. The team intends to have the We have been fortunate to experience Wymondham. A journey full of volunteer rotas ready for this meeting. the cinema's facilities whilst most reminiscences and also, now, new The success of the festival depends on groups are obliged to set up in village experiences to share. And what better the many hours of volunteering halls and the like. This is something the way to end this lovely day but a contributed by the charities and society is very keen to continue and splendid fish and chip meal which members of both the church thus far Central has been supportive. awaited them at journey's end and of congregation and the wider community. The first choice for the new season in course, a cup of tea! Forms are available in church for any September was the wonderful Annie one who would be willing to spare a Hall starring Woody Allen and Diane couple of hours to contribute to the Keaton. In October it's Manchester By smooth running of the festival. Help is The Sea; November, Cromwell and needed in the kitchen, on the stall and December, Eight Women. All these films the raffle and with general stewarding, are shown on the second Thursday of so something for everyone. each month at 7.30pm. Membership From the Festival Team (Anne, Alison, costs £10 and tickets are priced at £5. Elaine, Lily, Roger & Sue) Non-members are welcome, paying £7. You can become a member on film nights or by sending a cheque for £10 to Jane Heppell, 12 Gladstone Rd, Fakenham NR21 9BZ plus a sae. We need your support.

All aboard the train Twice this summer on the 16�� and 24�� of August two groups from the Fakenham Community Hub at Cranmer House set off for an outing. Destination Dereham. What, you might ask were twenty elderly ladies and gentlemen doing boarding buses en route to Dereham? The answer is - they were off for a day

- The BEACON - 6 - Resurrection Hope Service Beacon delivery The church clock is ‘on strike’! This year the annual service for New volunteer deliverers are Many of you will be aware that, the bereaved, held on All Saints’ required for: for some time, the church clock Sunday, will be at 3.00pm on ● Greenway Lane 1 - 69 and has not been chiming the hours. Sunday 29�� October in the Parish 2 - 46, Buckenham Close & The reason is that, like for many Church. Tudor Close of us, age is having its effect! In People whose funerals we have 61 copies order to rectify the problem with taken during the past year will be ● Greenway Lane 71 - 125 and the clock serious work is needed mentioned by name at the service 48 - 104, Ficarra's Spa or the on the winding / striking and their relatives should receive a house beyond. mechanism. The quotation from personal invitation to attend. 40 copies Smiths of Derby, the clock However, the service is open to all. The copies for each round are specialists, is £2512 + VAT. Please feel free to come if you bundled and available from the If you are one of the many people wish. If you have a loved one you church on the 4th Saturday each who rely on the clock and would would like remembered by name. month (special arrangements will like to make a donation towards please let us know by email to be advised for December!). the cost of this repair it will be [email protected] or If you can help, please contact gratefully received. Please put post a note through the Rectory Elaine at [email protected] or cheques - made payable to door by Wednesday 25�� October on 01328 851848. Fakenham Parish Church - or cash so that we can add the name to in an envelope marked church our lists. clock appeal. They may be left at Refreshments will be provided Books, jigsaws and bric à brac at the Rectory or handed to any after the service by the Support in Fakenham Church church official - details on page 2 Loss Group who meet on the first We would like to say a big thank of the Beacon. Wednesday of each month. Details you to all who have donated items Thank you. We hope to have the on page 10. for the Thursday stalls during this clock back in full working order as It is important that we remember year. Equally, thank you to those soon as possible. before God those we love who are who have bought items! All your Roger Burbidge, Churchwarden now in his care. Grief is the price contributions and support are very we pay for love, but love will much appreciated. endure. Come and light a candle However, with the Christmas Tree for your love. Festival looming we need space so we would please ask: a) No more books donated until after Christmas. b) Please continue to leave items for the bric à brac stall especially anything which would look good on the stalls at the Tree Festival market or could be used for the Tombola. Thank you. June, Jenni, Sue, Lily & Roger

- The BEACON - 7 - Prayer Space Spiritual Growth We find our deepest desire Expect to grow? not in our arriving, Most of us expect that a healthy plant in our garden will but in our journeying; continue to grow to its mature limits. Growth will not in the finding, depend upon sufficient light, moisture, space and but in the searching. nutrients. In a similar way we should expect to grow spiritually given the right environment. (Margaret Silf)

What is spiritual growth? I can speak only for the Christian life but I believe it to be about the gradual transformation of our inner life with Our real journey in life is interior. the help of the Holy Spirit, so that we begin to reflect It is a matter of growth, deepening Jesus Christ. and our ever greater surrender to the creative action of love Can we measure this growth? and grace in our hearts. Not exactly but there are indications or movements that help. These include the movement from pride to (Thomas Merton) humility, resentment to gratitude, fear to love and sorrow to joy.* Of course unlike physical growth there can be times when progress is loss! To journey Right environment? you must travel. Having space to meet ourselves and the God who loves To find us in prayer, meditation and silence is essential. you must lose yourself. However, it is not a lone journey we also need Exploration community. We need each other if we are to grow. risks change. *Spiritual Formation: M. Christensen & R. Laid. (Unknown) SPCK 2011

Parish Prayers for October

Daily prayers are said for Fakenham, its people and organisations During the weeks in October we will be specifically praying for:

1�� - 7�� Accident & emergency services Those who live or work in Walnut Drive, William Road, Pensthorpe Road, Clipbush Lane, Baldwin Court. 8�� - 14�� United Nations & peace Those who live or work in Sculthorpe Road, Sculthorpe Eastgate, Kings Road, Chappel Hill, Knoll Gardens. 15�� - 21�� Doctors, nurses, medical centres Those who live or work in Rudham Stile Lane, Grove Lane. 22ⁿ� - 28�� Bible Society Those who live or work in Greenway Park, Silverlands Close, Newman Drive. 29�� - 4�� Nov Fakenham Area Partnership /Fabcom Those who live or work in Charles Road, Edinburgh Drive, Elizabeth Avenue, Copper Beech Close.

The BEACON - 8 - Growing, what images come to mind Over the bank holiday, I visited my when you think about growing, which sister and her husband in Stockport. is the theme for this month's Beacon They took me to watch the ? Manchester Pride parade. It was such I thought initially about vegetables a positive and happy experience and and flowers and made an impromptu so good to see the police, fire brigade visit to Greenfield Allotments where and ambulance personnel all two people kindly agreed to talk with dressed up and joining in the fun. I me. think we have grown as a nation in Firstly I met with Tommy White. With welcoming diversity; giving validity to three allotments which he's had for those who are gay, lesbian, bi-sexual 50+ years, he surely must be the or transgender. king! There was a float from Coronation He grows many vegetables and can Beryl, told me that her husband had Street and others from all the major be selective of what goes to table. an allotment for six years, but sadly high street stores/banks. The centre Large pumpkins abound, and brussel he died last Autumn. She made the of Manchester was closed and the sprouts are under nets, ready for decision to continue with the plot. parade took about an hour and a Christmas. Nets keep the butterflies She finds tending the allotment very half. There were thousands lining the out but whitefly are more tricky. therapeutic and says it's a haven, roads and afterwards the throng Apparently watering with garlic away from the hurly burly of life. So dispersed into cafes and pubs powder in a can, helps enormously. one year in, she's grown a range of relaxing into the sunshine. An Tommy's very aware of the way the vegetables, such as mini sweetcorn,- affirming event for all. What do you weather affects the crops. Parsnips which doesn't reduce the size of think? might not be so good as last year and plant - and some lovely flowers. Beryl fruit has come earlier. (His also noted, interestingly the growing raspberries were delicious.) number of women with allotments. It Tommy spoke of a pattern to was good meeting her. planting and harvesting as all good gardeners know. In his good sized poly tunnel, (now not permitted) he grows tomatoes and 'double crops' his beans. He transfers seedlings from the tunnel and plants them out, close to the canes, after the first crop. It's lucky that Tommy was there when I visited as I went away much the wiser.

Fakenham Town Council (01328 853653) say they have several vacant plots, on all three sites. Yearly rents average between £15-25.

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The BEACON - 9 - What’s On St Peter and St Paul Trinity Art Group Tuesday 10��, 24�� Oct. Fakenham Parish Church 10.00am - 12 noon We meet every other Tuesday in the Trinity Room of the Parish Church where our numbers have steadily Stepping Stones increased. New artists are always Monday 2ⁿ�, 9��, 16��, 23��, 30�� Oct.. warmly welcomed. Come and join us every Monday at Contact Trish on 01328 862173. 9.45am. For friendship, music, stories, toys and games. For pre Messy Church school children and babies with their Come to a Party! parents and carers. Stepping Stones Support in Loss Group Faith, fun and food! meets in the Trinity Room inside Wednesday 4�� October Sunday 1�� October in the Parish Fakenham Parish Church every 10.00am - 12.00pm, Trinity Room Church 2.30pm until 4.30pm. Monday (except Bank Holidays). If you have been recently bereaved There is no charge. Refreshments are or you experienced a bereavement provided free. No booking required. many years ago, you are welcome to Fakenham and nearby For regular updates and news, please come and share with us a morning of visit and like us on facebook support in a safe and friendly place. Rosemary Rooms Fakenhamsteppingstones Contact Judith 01328 864061 Every Monday Contact Elaine 01328 851848 10.30am - 12.30pm Church Women’s Guild For people with dementia or memory Monday 16�� OCTOBER is our 12�� Monday 16�� October - Revd Patrick problems, their family and friends. BIRTHDAY PARTY! Foreman is going to come and tell us Hempton Church Hall. We look forward to all under 5s & about his life - then and now! Caring for someone with dementia? their carers coming to celebrate with Join us for a morning of laughter, fun us at the usual time 9.45 a m. Mothers’ Union and conversation over tea, coffee and there will be party nibbles and a Tuesday 10�� October, starting at and cake. Disabled access. cake too! 2:00pm, in the Trinity Room of the Contact Judith 01328 864061 or Parish Church Pam 01328 829735

Fakenham & District Community Fakenham Barnardo’s Archive Jumble Sale on October 7�� from Tuesday 31�� October 1.30pm - 3.30pm at Fakenham Junior 2.00pm - 4.00pm, Trinity Room School, Queen’s Road. Admission During our monthly sessions our 20p. Raffle, refreshments. friendly team of volunteers are No time for Monday Breakfast? always at hand to scan pictures and Fakenham Local History Society 'Tea and Toast' in term time. It’s for gather information, so if you’d like to October 9�� at the Salvation Army anyone who wants to bring babies or share your memories or pictures with Temple in Oak Street at 7.30pm. toddlers to our time of stories, us we’d be very pleased to see you. Non members are charged £2.00 songs,praise and play but has to rush Fakenhamcommunityarchive.weebly. to do the school run first. com/ St. Andrew’s Church, Great Ryburgh Tea (or coffee) and Toast served from Contact 01328 863377 Saturday, 14�� October 8:45am till 9:30am. 9.30am – 2 pm. Stepping Stones begins 9:45am. October Market and Book Sale Meet the children's author Ryta Market Day Refreshments and Stalls Lyndley Every Thursday St. Andrew’s Pantry open. 10.00am - 12.45pm Details from 01328 829413 Drop in for coffee/tea and cake or soup and a roll and browse the stalls.

The BEACON - 10 - What’s On Roundabout The South Creake Lectures 2017 INTUITIVE PAINTING ‘Food for the Mind and Soul’ FOR RELAXATION AND Speakers of national renown at MINDFULNESS Our Lady Saint Mary South Creake Drop in workshop for adults. NR21 9LX. Free entry, no booking DEBBIE OSBORN ART STUDIO needed. Harvest Supper Friday 6th October Hillside Lodge, Road 6 pm Fakenham Parish Church Toftrees, Fakenham NR21 7LS Tuesday 31�� October 7.00pm Fakenham and District Churches £10 PER DROP IN SESSION Dr Giles Waller, Cambridge Faculty Together are holding their annual ALL EQUIPMENT PROVIDED of Divinity Harvest Supper in the Parish Church, Saturday 7�� October ‘Luther and the Theology of the this year organized by the Methodist Saturday 21�� October Cross’ Church. Saturday 10�� November For more information see the posters A main course will be provided, at a from 10am onwards and fliers in church. cost of £5, and participants are Contact Debbie: 07941 784204 [email protected] Fakenham Christian Aid Committee invited to bring a dessert to share Join us for a light-hearted afternoon and their own drinks and glasses. of Scrabble at Hempton Church Hall Further information and bookings on Friday 13�� October, 1.30 for 1.45 from Freda Banyard on 01328 start till 4.00pm. 862975 or Moira Morley on 01328 Cost: £2.00 to include tea and cake. 855874 by 30�� September please. All proceeds to Christian Aid. Raffle and Bring n’ Buy (please price your donation – thank you!)

Fakenham & District Community Archive

This month's theme of 'growing' can be seen in many ways. Certainly here in Fakenham we see the town growing around us in many ways such as the steady growth in housing leading to a growing population and a growing need to care for one another and the community. So we have chosen a photograph of locals caring for the natural world and this month's Archive photograph shows Ann Nobes and Robert Worship planting a tree in Queen's Road in 1954. The photo was donated by Fakenham Junior School.

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The BEACON - 11 - Catch up with Services at Christ Church Fulmodeston Fakenham After the glories of the visit by the Parish Church Corpus Christi College Choir, we Every Sunday move to thoughts of harvest on 8.00am Holy Communion (BCP) October 22ⁿ� at 3.00pm. All offers 10.30am Parish Communion (CW) of help to decorate the church would be gratefully received. We Every Thursday will be displaying the closed 9.30am Holy Communion marriage registers, which run from 1839 until 2002, and there Every Monday will be a short ceremony to give Parish Prayers 8.00am thanks for the sacrament of all welcome marriage before they are taken to Stepping Stones 9.45am the registry office. Refreshments Come and join us every Monday will be served afterwards and the (except bank holiday) registers will be available for for friendship, music, stories, everyone to look at. toys and games.

The Eve of Advent Market is on October 1�� Saturday, December 2nd from Messy Church 2.30pm - 4.30pm 10.30am until 1.00pm. Do please let Stephen know (878364) if you October 8�� would like to book a table for a 10.30am Parish Communion charity or to sell you own crafts. Preacher: the Bishop of Lynn 6.30pm Healing Service

As always, we look forward to October 29�� welcoming you to Christ Church 3.00pm The Resurrection Hope (see page 7 for details) Andrew Lee - Churchwarden - 01328 878 870 Choir Practice 5.00pm every Thursday

October Services and Events at Christ Church, Fulmodeston

1�� 4.00pm Evening Prayer 8�� 11.00am Holy Communion 22ⁿ� 3.00pm Harvest Festival & Marriage Registers Ceremony 29�� 11.00am GMT Matins

- The BEACON - 12 - The Alto’s Lament

It’s tough to be an Alto when you’re singing in the choir, The Sopranos get the twiddly bits that people all admire. The Basses boom like loud trombones, the Tenors shout with glee, But the Altos part is on two notes (or if you’re lucky, three). And when we sing an anthem, and lift our hearts in praises The men get all the juicy bits and telling little phrases. Of course the Trebles sing the tune - they always come off best The Altos only get three notes - and twenty-two bars rest. We practice hard each week from Hymn book and the Psalter, But when the conductor looks at us our voices start to falter. “Too high! Too low! Too fast! You held that note too long!” It doesn’t matter what you do - it’s certain to be wrong. Oh, shed a tear for Altos, they’re martyrs and they know In the ranks of choral singers they’re considered very low. They are so very ‘umble that a lot of folk forget ‘em; How they’d love to be Sopranos, but their vocal chords won’t let ‘em! And when the final trumpet sounds, and we are wafted higher. Sopranos, Basses, Tenors - they’ll be in the heavenly choir. While they sing “Alleluia” to celestial flats and sharps. The Altos will be occupied with polishing the harps!

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