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GUEST,Rob K Melodies for Amazing Grace (43) RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace 16 Oct 16

The Hymn Book of the Countess of Huntingdon's Church of 1808 was printed with Amazing Grace set to John Husband's tune 'Hephzibah', which, I think, captures the sentiments of John Newton's splendid hymn of joy far better than the morose dirge known as 'New Britain' which did not appear until 1831. Prior to that the hymn would have been sung to any Common Metre tune that people knew from singing the various versions of the metric psalms.

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