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From the Bradford Telegraph & Argus, 4th June 2003
Doo your best to gag Reverend
Singing vicar, the Reverend John Hartley, is giving people the chance to make him shut up in a special event this weekend.
The Reverend John Hartley, who writes his own hymns to popular tunes, admits his efforts sometimes create mixed feelings and some people might be tired of his rhyming efforts.
His latest effort on whether the risen Jesus was a ghost, to the tune of Scooby Doo, could get its first airing at a sponsored sing at St Luke's Church, Eccleshill, on Saturday. He could also have a go at some of the rest of his repertoire, including a hymn for the World Cup to the tune of Match of the Day and one about Christians receiving the Holy Spirit to the tune of I'm a Little Teapot. "But will they pay me money to make me stop?," asked Rev Hartley.
The event - during a coffee morning to raise church funds - also gives people the chance to sponsor singers and to pick their favourite hymns.
Despite his work with popular ditties, Mr Hartley is a classical musician who used to play the trombone in a symphony orchestra.
He is one of five musical clergymen working the area, with David Swales, the vicar of St James Church, Bolton playing the bass guitar; Paul Deo, vicar of St Mary's Laisterdyke (guitar), Darren Garfield of St Andrew's Undercliffe (trumpet) and Albert Gayle, superintendent minister of Woodhouse Grove Methodist Circuit, on the euphonium.
HYMN AND HERS: Marjorie Wiseman and Violet Harrison gag the Reverend John Hartley to stop him singing.
Photograph: Bradford Telegraph & Argus
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