"The Little Drummer Boy" (originally known as "Carol of the Drum") is a popular Christmas song written by American composer Katherine Kennicott Davis in 1941.[1] First recorded in 1951 by the Austrian Trapp Family, the song was further popularized by a 1958 recording by the Harry Simeone Chorale; the Simeone version was re-released successfully for several years, and the song has been recorded many times since.[2]In the lyrics, the singer relates how, as a poor young boy, he was summoned by the Magi to the Nativity of Jesus. Without a gift for the Infant, the little drummer boy played his drum with approval from Jesus's mother, Mary, recalling, "I played my best for him" and "He smiled at me". Despite the song's popularity, the story of the drummer boy is not biblically accurate.[3]

The song was originally titled "Carol of the Drum". While speculation has been made that the song is very loosely based on the Czech carol "Hajej, nynej",[4] the chair of the music department at Davis's alma mater Wellesley College claims otherwise.[5] In an interview with Music Department Chair Claire Fontijn, the College writes:

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Inspiration for "The Little Drummer Boy" came to Davis in 1941. "[One day], when she was trying to take a nap, she was obsessed with this song that came into her head and it was supposed to have been inspired by a French song, 'Patapan'," explained Fontijn. "And then 'patapan' translated in her mind to 'pa-rum-pum-pum,' and it took on a rhythm." The result was "The Little Drummer Boy".

Davis's interest was in producing material for amateur and girls' choirs: Her manuscript is set as a chorale, in which the tune is in the soprano melody with alto harmony, tenor and bass parts producing the "drum rhythm" and a keyboard accompaniment "for rehearsal only". It is headed "Czech Carol freely transcribed by K.K.D.", these initials then crossed out and replaced with "C.R.W. Robinson", a name under which Davis sometimes published.[6][7]

"Carol of the Drum" appealed to the Austrian Trapp Family Singers, who first brought the song to wider prominence when they recorded it for Decca Records in 1951 on their first album for the label. Their version was credited solely to Davis and published by Belwin-Mills.[8]

In 1957, the song was recorded with an altered arrangement by Jack Halloran for his Jack Halloran Singers on their Dot Records album Christmas Is A-Comin'. This arrangement is the one commonly sung today.[2] However, the recording was not released as a single that year. In response to this, Dot producer Henry Onorati, who left Dot to become the new head of 20th Century-Fox Records in 1958,[9] introduced the song to Harry Simeone. When 20th Century-Fox Records contracted with Simeone to record a Christmas album, Simeone hired many of the same singers who had sung in Halloran's version and made a near-identical recording with his newly created Harry Simeone Chorale.[2][10][11] It was released as a single in 1958,[10] and later on the album, Sing We Now of Christmas, later retitled The Little Drummer Boy. The only difference between Simeone's and Halloran's versions, was that Simeone's contained finger cymbals, and the song's title had been changed to "The Little Drummer Boy".[2] Simeone and Onorati claimed and received joint composition credits with Davis,[2] although the two did not actually compose or arrange it.[10][11] Halloran never received a joint writing credit for the song, something his family disagrees with.[10][11][12]

The album and the song were an enormous success,[13] with the single scoring in the top 40 of the U.S. music charts from 1958 to 1962.[10] In 1965, Simeone, who had signed with Kapp Records in 1964, re-recorded a new version of the song for his album O' Bambino: The Little Drummer Boy.[14] This version (3:18 play time) was recorded in stereo, had a slightly slower tempo, and contained different-sounding cymbals. Simeone recorded the song a third and final time in 1981 (3:08 play time), for an album, again titled The Little Drummer Boy, on the budget Holiday Records label.

This is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It captures the essence of what the Father desires of His children. We as faulty Christians constantly judge others by the outward appearance. Yet, our loving Father, full of grace and mercy, judges the heart.

The song starts off as a little boy learning about a baby Jesus being born. He was curious, so he decided to go see the baby that he heard about. The story says that he came when the wise men were there. The wise men all had gifts that were considered precious and valuable during that time; gold, frankincense and myrrh. The little boy was very poor, all he had was his drum.

We see in the song, that he thought he had no gift to bring that was fit for a king, all he had was his drum. Nevertheless, the boy decided to play his drum, as small of a gift as it was. When he was playing, he saw the face of Jesus smile at him. He was playing his best for the king.

The elders of Kenwood Baptist in Louisville recently publicized three classes taught at their church by Jim Hamilton and Denny Burk, the point of which was to warn their members against certain errors that they saw emanating from our Moscow project here.

I have been answering objections on the topic of satire/language for about forty years years now, and so the territory is certainly well-covered. There are various conclusions you might draw from this. One is that here I am, stubbornly doing my own thing, insisting over the course of decades that it is the rest of the army that is out of step, not me. That is one possibility. Another possibility, and the one that I clearly prefer, is that the pietistic tradition really is deeply ingrained in the conservative evangelical mindset, and that we need to work ever more diligently to let the text confront us when it comes to our traditions. The besetting sin of pietism has always been that of wanting to be holier than the Bible.

I have written one book on this topic, which can be found here. In addition, there are a number of other places where I have needed to answer objections. Once was the time when John Frame reviewed the aforementioned book, and I responded to him. He wrote the review for Reformation and Revival Journal, but I also published his review here on my blog. And my response to that review is here.

Thus far, his presentation was strong, and well worthy of an answer. I will get to that below. The question thus rides on a question of exegetical fact, which means there can be hope that we can actually get to an answer. After all, the text says what it does.

And it would be nice to be able to get to that solution because the men at Kenwood are the kind of men we would like to be allied with. We would rather not be in a conflict with them, believing as we do that we both have bigger fish to fry. But here we are, and I hope this response helps clarify for them why we function the way that we do.

So before going on, let me explain myself on this point, and let me defend my people. I will start with the latter first. If somebody from Kenwood Baptist had just heard about this disagreement, but they were already in the process of moving from Louisville to Moscow, one of the things they might be surprised to learn when they arrived is the fact that the Christians here talk the same way conservative evangelicals do everywhere. They would not find that they had moved from one style of discourse (that of maiden aunts) to another (that of two machinist mates on a tramp steamer trying to repair a broken-down engine). They would not have gone from a world of powder blue to ultramarine. Our fellowship times here are not festivals of verbal antinomianism.

And with regard to my own behavior, I really think that some perspective is in order. I think it is safe to say that I have written millions of words. While keeping Proverbs 10:19 in mind, out of all those millions of words, and the scads of books I have written, I can think of maybe ten particular instances where I have used a word that Denny would put in the corrupt category that he is addressing. And when I have written something like this, I have made it obvious I have not been doing it to entice Christians to loosen up and cuss a little bit more. Rather, I have done it in order to attack sin, and to make sin reprehensible in the eyes of the reader.

In fact, I have done it for the very same reasons that the elders of Kenwood Baptist asked Denny to teach this class. He referred to some of the words I have used in the past in his talk, employing euphemisms and short-hand as he did so, but he also had a collection of examples in print that he offered to show folks after the class if they wanted to see the full text.

Denny quotes this passage, and points out that the word for flesh here is simply basar, which is just the word for flesh. He grants that contextually Ezekiel is referring to the male member of donkeys, but argues that Ezekiel is speaking here euphemistically. And he would have a reasonable point if the only thing the prophet said here was basar. But to point to this word in isolation is to skate very lightly over the surface of the passage. What does Ezekiel actually say? A lot more than just basar, as it turns out.

Remember that in the piece above when I was rebuking Nadia Bolz-Weber, the thing that set it off was an article in a conservative Reformed magazine that gave Weber the kid glove treatment. How many fingers does evangelicalism have to lose before we admit we have leprosy?

NB: Now precisely because this is not my first rodeo, I believe I need to mention that the evangelical elites found in the previous two paragraphs are not any kind of a reference to Denny and friends.

Who am I? I am not an academic. I am not a scholar. I can read those guys, and I can follow what they are saying, but I am not a member of their club. So what am I then? I basically have two vocations. My central vocation and calling is that of pastor and minister. This calling governs my deportment with the saints at Christ Church, and outsiders can get glimpses of what that is like when I post sermon outlines, or when they watch a video of a sermon preached. That is right at the center of what I was called to do. I have also been involved in countless hours of pastoral counseling which, if we are being frank, involve almost no amounts of satire at all. I suspect things would go poorly if I ever tried that. 152ee80cbc

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