Amazing Grace

Tune Notes

• From Wikipedia entry on "Amazing Grace": "'Amazing Grace' is a Christian hymn written by English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725–1807) published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption is possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, 'Amazing Grace' is one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world. ... With folk music origins vague and documentation incomplete, scholars can only speculate where the melody originated. These guesses include a Scottish folk ballad as many of the new residents of Kentucky and Tennessee were immigrants from Scotland, or folk songs developed in Virginia, or South Carolina, William Walker's home state."
  

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