I made a mistake and played the wrong opening hymn in church. The congregation tried to match the words they were singing with the music I was playing but were having a difficult time. The singing sounded horrible, but I thought it was because they were singing in Arabic. Then I thought they didn't know this one so I played louder. I'm not sure how we did it, but we got all the way through the first verse before Morad got up and told me what was happening.
"Why didn't you stop me?" I asked Sewar who was conducting. Her reply: "I thought something was wrong but I wasn't sure what it was." I just had to laugh. Our western hymns are so "foreign" to them. Sometimes they sound really good, sometimes not so much.
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