sentences:  It was during his student days at Oak Hill in 1964 that Perry wrote his best-known hymn, the Calypso Carol, the first line of which is "See him lying on a bed of straw".He wrote this for a college concert, and it only became famous by accident when Cliff Richard substituted it for a missing recording in a radio show.After ordination in the Church of England Diocese of Liverpool, Perry ministered at St Helens, Merseyside.