MY LITTLE BROTHER HAS CANCER

Me and bro have been chatting tonight and feel that it is about time we started looking at the hymns we might choose for his service. We don’t want anything too sad and bro feels he does not want anything too religious. He said he would like something that all the mourners who attend will listen and think…hey…that sums Bro up….we been racking our brains out to find some and we think we might have come up with the first one…..
In 1847 a Scotsman called  Henry Francis Lyte…(Fancy bro picking a hymn written by someone called Lyte…lol)  wrote a poem whilst dying of tubercolosis, 3 weeks after he wrote it he died, the poem was adapted to be sung to the composer Wlliam Henry Monks tune of “Eventide” It is famously sung at Football and Rugby Finals at Wembley Stadium


ABIDE WITH ME……….(tweaked)

A PIE FOR ME,  TO THE CHIPPY DO I FLY
ITS NEARLY CLOSING. LORD I NEED A PIE
WHEN OTHER THINGS CANNOT FILL ME FOR MY TEA
ONLY A MEAT AND POTATO. LORD, A PIE FOR ME.

SWIFT TO THE COUNTER. I WOBBLE AS I RUN,
EARTHS JOY GROWS DIM. THE NIGHT TAKES OUT THE SUN.
CHANGE FROM MY FIVER. LORD I MUST DECREE,
O THOU WHO CHANGEST NOT. A PIE FOR ME.

NOW A BRIEF GLANCE AND I SPOT A STEAK AND KID,
I SEE MY CHANGE AND I SEE I HAVE TWO QUID
I PUT THE REST IN THE BOX MARKED MARIE CURIE
I CANNOT WAIT TO EAT. ….A PIE FOR ME.

IM  BACK HOME NOW AND MY TUMS  A RUMBLING,
AND I GRABB A PIE AND THE CRUST IS CRUMBLING.
TEARS FILL MY EYES.  SOMETHING I COULD NOT FORSEE
SOME FELL ON  THE FLOOR. MY GOD. OF MY PIE FOR ME.

I NOW THINK LORD . THAT I SHOULD HAVE GOT A CHEESE?
BUT WHAT I DID GET WAS A CARTON OF MUSHY PEAS.
I LOOK FOR HP SAUCE. DEAR GOD WHERE CAN IT BE?
HAD IT FOR MY PIE AT DINN. NOW I NEED IT FOR A PIE FOR ME.

MEAT AND POTATO, CHEESE AND MEAT AND STEAK
HOLLAND OR PUKKAS. MAKE MY BELLY ACHE
I LIKE THE ONES, THAT ARE BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
THERES NOTHING I LIKE BETTER LORD. THAN A PIE FOR ME.

HOLD NOW THY FORK. BEFORE MY CLOSING EYES,
SHINE THROUGH THE GLOOM, AND POINT IT TO THE PIES.
WILL I IN HEAVEN . LORD COULD YOU GUARANTEE
IN LIFE. IN DEATH. COULD I TAKE A PIE FOR ME..