Possible Clues:

• Where one was lying was not in church
• Not to be sung in the church?
• Of the congregation
• Put down an old song
• May be sung, but not in church
• What your bird may do, but never in church
• How sound, then, the pottery might be
• --- Down Sally (Eric Clapton)
• Produce eggs, like a hen
• Spend, with 'out'