Guess what the two country music stars thought was an appropriate selection to croon at Rosalynn Carter’s memorial service?
They sang “Imagine,” John Lennon’s mush-brained ode to anarchy and nihilism. By the end of the performance, Rolling Stone tells us, “some of the other musicians had delicately joined in, offering choral vocals and soft piano.” Great. These are the deep thinkers who try to influence public opinion, government policies and elections.
Pundit Ed Driscoll put it well: “Because ‘Imagine there’s no heaven’ and ‘Imagine there’s no countries’ are comforting words inside the church funeral for a 96-year-old former first lady of America.”
It would have been more responsible to have sung another Lennon composition, “I am the Walrus” (GOO GOO G’JOOB!). At least that song, gibberish though it may be, doesn’t make one think of Jimmy’s foreign policy botches, which were many and varied.
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In my experience, funerals are usually almost as choreographed as weddings. I think it’s unlikely that Brooks and Yearwood were given carte blanche to play/sing whatever they wanted.*
Far more likely that the family requested that they do the song. Might even have been Ms. Carter herself. That kind of thing gets done.
*Otherwise, they might have brought the crowd to its feet with “Friends in Low Places.”
That makes sense, but I have to blame SOMEBODY every time that %$#@!! song is played in public. If it was Jimmy’s idea, that’s one more thing to add to the list….
The Babylon Bee’s interpretation is nice:
My husband says “at least it wasn’t Revolution 9”. 😂😂😂
HA!