'Crying in the Chapel'

Outhouse shed, the type where I had been singing

I like to sing, since I was a child.  And my father taught me to project my voice at a young age.  But one morning the family had a laugh especially about that in the context of what had happened in the middle of the night.

"We heard you singing," my mother said.  "In fact the whole neighborhood heard you.  This morning I had several calls about it."

I had been singing at the top of my 12-year-old lungs "Crying in the Chapel" in the outhouse (outdoor toilet in a shed) at two a.m.!

The song, recorded seven years later by Elvis Presley as part of his gospel collection, was on the top of the charts in 1953 and like other young folks I could not stop singing it no matter the time of day---or night--or location.

Carol