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Thread #152099   Message #3556404
Posted By: Jack Campin
05-Sep-13 - 03:12 PM
Thread Name: Irish? Sez who? and why?
Subject: RE: Irish? Sez who? and why?
I have heard Scots say that Amazing Grace is definitely a Scottish tune. Just because a pipe band recorded it in the 70s.

It seems to be Americans who are most keen on that attribution. In fact Americans seem mightily keen on giving their own tunes away to the Irish or the Scots. If I play a set of American old-time tunes, chances are some American listening is going to insist they're all Irish.