Blake Shelton is upset that the word "Lord" was removed from the gospel classic, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," during a performance on the Voice.
The censoring came during the Seattle Starbucks Chorus' performance with the top eight contestants, when "Lord" was replaced with the word "oh."
Blake said he wasn't aware of the change.
"I don't know what, how it happened, I'm learning about it just like you guys are," Shelton told Zap2it.
"I was sitting in my chair singing that song how I grew up on it, with 'in the sky, Lord, in the sky.' I sang it as loud as I could. And that might be why I didn't realize until after the fact that 'Lord' was either taken out, or it was just performed some other way."
Voice producer Mark Burnett said that in order to provide the song freely on iTunes, the public domain version had to be used, adding that the public domain version uses "oh" in the place of "Lord."
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