Stacks, Royal Marine, seeming to forget that in a bait in Iraq he had dumped me on a tank turret and demanded a song, said that I had a tendency to involve myself in random acts of singing. He was referring to the time on the US base in Kandahar when I was heckled by Private Stanton, a New Yorker, infuriating Grace-Anne and Maybelle, Southern canteen staff. Grace-Anne did the shouting for both of them. 'We were as angry as my white turkey who used to puff up its feathers prior to gobbling. What, the cat got your tongue all of a sudden, Private? Your formerly oh so loquacious tongue? Well, release that tongue of such former loquashioshness from the jaws of the cat, for a hymn will now be sung. And this is the hymn we all sang: https://soundcloud.com/oliver-nelken/there-is-a-balm-in-gilead #sunday #church #gospel #gospelsong #hymn #religion #singer #god #USA #USArmy