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16 Aug 07 - 06:24 PM (#2127440) Subject: Amazing Grace to different tune From: dulcimer42 I used to know several tunes to which Amazing Grace could be sung. Or for that matter, different lyrics that could be sung to the tune of Amazing Grace. How many can you come up with? |
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16 Aug 07 - 06:45 PM (#2127453) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: ClaireBear May I please add a related question? As I recall, there was a version of Amazing Grace that became a mainstream radio hit in the late '60s or early '70s (no, not Scotch on the Rocks, nor yet Judy Collins). It was sung to the usual tune, but it had a much more interesting harmony than the one I'm stuck with on Sundays (from the Episcopal Hymnal). It was kind of bluesy. Can anybody point me to what it was? |
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16 Aug 07 - 07:12 PM (#2127467) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: dulcimer42 Can't recall the one you speak of... Sure hope some of you can help with similar songs/tunes.. Thanks so much. |
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16 Aug 07 - 07:25 PM (#2127477) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: frogprince The variation I have heard the most, although it's not one of my favorite things, has been the substitution of the tune of "House of the Rising Sun". My wife has sung Amazing Grace to the tune "The Water is Wide" a few times; I takes just a little tweaking, as: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a drifting soul like me; I once was lost, but now am found; I once was blind, but now I see. We added one home-made verse when doing that: Though grace may grow familiar now, Like any song, sung one old way, Lord, touch my heart, lest I forget, Thy grace is new, each breaking day. |
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16 Aug 07 - 07:34 PM (#2127482) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Cstargazy you can sing 'Amazing Grace' to 'Jock O'Hazeldene' and 'Lord Yester' and both of them to 'Amazing Grace' |
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16 Aug 07 - 07:44 PM (#2127485) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Cstargazy And with a little ingenuity you can sing 'Amazing Grace' to 'The first time ever I saw your face' and vice versa. ..... |
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16 Aug 07 - 08:05 PM (#2127503) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Cstargazy And then there's 'While Shepherds watched their flocks by night' in all its glorious versions...including 'Pentonville' in the Sheffield Carol Tradition..... |
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16 Aug 07 - 08:06 PM (#2127504) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: masato sakurai There're related threads: Melodies for Amazing Grace Help: Amazing Grace/ House of the Rising Sun. |
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16 Aug 07 - 08:14 PM (#2127507) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: catspaw49 Thanks Masato.....I was going to link those. My favorite that we talked about back then was Amazing Grace to Gilligan's Island and vice versa. Spaw |
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17 Aug 07 - 08:42 AM (#2127812) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: clueless don I rather enjoy singing Amazing Grace to the tune of Modern Major General. Don |
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17 Aug 07 - 08:50 AM (#2127818) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Liz the Squeak Clueless - that is truly bizzare, but incredibly, it works! I have a rather nice blues/Gospel version of it somewhere... LTS |
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17 Aug 07 - 08:50 AM (#2127819) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,PMB I was going to say teddy Bears' Picnic... |
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17 Aug 07 - 09:43 AM (#2127849) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,Russ My wife can sing "Amazing Grace" to a beautiful tune she learned from her grandfather who was an Old Regular Baptist song leader. She learned it aurally and it is probably not notated anywhere. Russ (Permanent GUEST) |
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17 Aug 07 - 09:44 AM (#2127850) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Roger the Skiffler H of the RS has been mentioned- 5 Blind Boys of Alabama do a version. Probably said this already on one of the linked threads! RtS |
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17 Aug 07 - 09:09 PM (#2128310) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,TomC You can also sing it to the Eagles's Peaceful Easy Feeling |
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18 Aug 07 - 12:01 AM (#2128364) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,highlandman The old hymnals didn't call that metric pattern "Common Meter" for nothing, did they? 8/6/8/6 iambic. Almost the entire Scottish Psalter is set to common meter tunes. Grab an old hymnbook and look through the "metrical index" and you'll have hundreds of choices. -Glenn |
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14 Nov 08 - 07:10 PM (#2494237) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,Steve K How about the theme to Gilligans Island - a perfect fit. |
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14 Nov 08 - 07:25 PM (#2494252) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: JennyO The Oz National Anthem, "Advance Australia Fair" is one of those that is interchangeable with Amazing Grace, House of the Rising Sun, Gilligan's Island etc. It's especially fun to sing either of the serious ones to Gilligan's Island. *goes off singing* Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and free, We've golden soil and wealth for toil Our home is girt by sea, our home is girt by sea.... |
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14 Nov 08 - 08:45 PM (#2494293) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Jack Campin Seems to fit "La Cumparsita". |
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14 Nov 08 - 08:45 PM (#2494294) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: masato sakurai The same tune with a different set of words. James Nicol's "The Lord's My Shepherd". |
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14 Nov 08 - 11:20 PM (#2494369) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Songster Bob I always liked singing AG to "The Girl I Left Behind Me" (you know -- "Oh, she jumped in bed and covered up her head, And said I couldn't find her. I knew damn well she lied like hell, So I jumped in right behind her.") (Well, those aren't the original words, but the best-known, I swan.) Song Bob |
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15 Nov 08 - 07:20 PM (#2494818) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Bernard How about 'Pinball Wizard'... Or 'My Old Man's a Dustman'?! |
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14 May 10 - 04:42 PM (#2907052) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,peewee how about 'the coke theme song' |
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18 Apr 11 - 04:29 PM (#3137657) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Artful Codger Forgive my getting serious for a moment.... I did a (very) little research into tunes which actually were used for "Amazing Grace", according to hymnals. As mentioned above and elsewhere, many common meter tunes will work, metrically at least, but these are some which beyond question were used:
Other tunes for which I found names only: Lloyd, Evan, Noyes, New Bedford. I have a recording of AG sung to a different tune by someone like (but not) Doc Watson or Ralph Stanley. |
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26 Jun 11 - 06:27 PM (#3176886) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Janie Took my mother to her early church service today. It was my first live exposure to a Sunday service with a "praise band," complete with screen with the words on it At the end of the service, the associate pastor invited all to stand and sing "Amazing Grace." As I helped my mother rise to her feet she said, "You aren't going to like the way we sing "Amazing Grace." They sang the verses to the Eagle's "Peaceful, Easy Feeling," using the same chorus the Eagle's sing, except they substitute "holy" for "solid" ground. Ma knows her daughter's taste in music. Don't get me wrong. The band is good. |
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27 Jun 11 - 11:29 PM (#3177547) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Artful Codger FWIW, the recording I referred to at the tail of my previous message is on the Smithsonian Folkways album Classic Mountain Songs. The singer was Horton Barker. |
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28 Jun 11 - 12:08 AM (#3177559) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,Jon Well there is the Welsh Hymn. Dod ar fy mhen dy sanctaidd law. We sang it like this in primary school: X:1 M:3/4 L:1/4 K:Cmaj G | GEG | FDF | EFE | D2 w:Dod ar_ fy mhen_ dy sa-nc-taidd law, D | EFG | AFE | D2 w:O dy_ner Fab_ y Dyn; G | AcA | GEG | AcA |G2 w:Mae ge_nnyt fen_dith i_ rai bach G | AcA | GED | C2 |] w:Fel yn_ dy oes_ dy hun. but I have also known it sang to "Amazing Grace". I can't quite convince my self that the reverse (singing Amazing Grace to the above tune works well though) |
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28 Jun 11 - 01:58 PM (#3177868) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Elmore Debby McClatchy sang "Amazing Grace" to a tune she wrote, and recorded it on an album called " Chestnut Ridge". I heard her perform it live once. Lovely. |
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17 Apr 12 - 04:47 PM (#3339686) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,Scott D The Lion Sleeps Tonight Don't Worry Be Happy Runaround by Blue Traveler (Ghost) Riders in the sky |
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18 Apr 12 - 02:34 PM (#3340012) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: MGM·Lion The old hymnals didn't call that metric pattern "Common Meter" for nothing, did they? 8/6/8/6 iambic. Almost the entire Scottish Psalter is set to common meter tunes. .,,.,. And think of all the ballads sung in that meter too. So you could sing AG to the tune of Sir Patrick Spens, or The Bitter Withy, or Little Musgrave & Lady Barnard, or........ or any of them to its tune, for that matter. As I have frequently remarked on this forum, it is only a sort of convention that relates a particular tune to a particular ballad ~~ & then it doesn't always hold permanently: look e.g. how Fause Foudrage has got confused with Willie O Winsbury. ~Michael~ |
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18 Apr 12 - 11:13 PM (#3340217) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Duane D. The Blind Boys of Alabama sang to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun." I like using, "How Can I Keep From Singing?" I have also heard the tune from "Bark of Life" (Carter Family) used. Do have a great day, Duane. |
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19 Apr 12 - 01:03 AM (#3340247) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: John P Stairway to Heaven . . . |
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19 Apr 12 - 03:47 AM (#3340280) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,BobL ... Auld Lang Syne There Is A Green Hill Far Away ... |
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17 Nov 13 - 02:31 PM (#3576526) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST,BoKaye My favorite - except the original - is at Christmas. It fits perfectly to Joy to the World |
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18 Nov 13 - 03:33 AM (#3576639) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Nigel Parsons My favorite - except the original - is at Christmas. It fits perfectly to Joy to the World Singing that one through in my head ... A-mazing Grace, how sweet the sound. That saved, a wretch, like me. I o-nce wa-s lo-o-ost But no-w a-m fou-ou-ound. Was blind but now I see, wa-s blind but now I see. Was Bli-ind, was bli-i-ind, but now I see. Okay, I suppose it works. |
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18 Nov 13 - 08:04 AM (#3576697) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: Mr Red I saw a version in Alan & John Lomax's seminal tome on American folksong and the song had a chorus. Dunno about the tune they documented. |
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24 May 19 - 11:33 AM (#3993741) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST Love Gilligan's Island, Rising Sun, and Peaceful Easy Feeling. A couple of others that work well - Can't You See - Marshall Tucker Band- use their chorus except can't you see, what God's grace has done for me. Seven Bridges Road - Eagles |
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25 May 19 - 12:27 AM (#3993813) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: EBarnacle I merge Amazing Grace and House of the Rising Sun and end with the lines: I'm going back to New Orleans, My race is almost run; I'll spend my nights a-seeking grace In the House of the Rising Sun. |
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23 Mar 20 - 11:58 AM (#4041594) Subject: RE: Amazing Grace to different tune From: GUEST Gilligan's Island theme and am old Coca Cola ad- I'd like to teach the world to sing |