In "Jesus or a Gun, " for example, Scallions sings: But now everything's trying to drag me down, but I'll rip the sky from the ground, but tell me now, who's my saving one, Jesus or a gun.
He invented a jet inoculation gun, able to give 1, 000 vaccinations an hour and credited with saving many lives in Africa (a photo of Hingson with Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer hangs in the BBF office).