[HANASHIR:4224] Everybody's Got a Little Music in 'Em

[Rachelle and Howard Shubert <notfranz...>]

Your advice is requested:

Since Rabbi Joe Black's music has been so highly recommended on this list, I 
asked the Orthodox Jewish pre-school where I teach to order a song book for me 
and it arrived yesterday.  Indeed, it is good material.  I have already learned 
Everybody's Got a Little Music in 'Em and used it today with success in one of 
my other secular classes (not a Jewish school)  but left off the last verse 
about everybody having a little G-d in 'em, because I have a policy of keeping 
the music non-religious outside of Hebrew schools and synagogues. (This policy 
is a help at Xmas and Easter.) The song is terrific and easy to teach. 

I would now like to use it at the Orthodox Jewish pre-school but need some 
advice.  I generally change the word "G-d" to "Hashem" in keeping with the 
practices of the school and this works with most things.  However here is my 
concern: as a liberal Jew, I am totally comfortable with the idea of G-d being 
"in" us, as I expect most religious individuals would be, but would this 
concept be acceptable to teach in an Orthodox setting I wonder?  I would rather 
not use the song until I am sure I will not offend.

Rachelle