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Thread #17330   Message #3365728
Posted By: Desert Dancer
19-Jun-12 - 11:46 PM
Thread Name: Is 'Amazing Grace' a Celtic song?
Subject: RE: Is 'Amazing Grace' a Celtic song?
William "Singing Billy" Walker, a nice, short (under 10 mins) video from South Carolina ETV about the guy who first published the text "Amazing Grace" in combination with the tune "New Britain" in the shape note hymnbook, Southern Harmony. Some 600,000 copies of Southern Harmony were sold prior to the Civil War (and it's still in print), the equivalent of about 8 million copies today.

New Britain at Southern Harmony online.

~ Becky in Tucson