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02 Oct 98 - 01:23 PM (#40232) Subject: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Animaterra OK, I couldn't resist, but out of respect to those on the other Amazing Grace thread I choose to do it this way. May 9-yr old likes to sing Amazing Grace to the tune of the old Micky Mouse club theme; it doesn't scan out quite at the end but she's worked it out. Other tunes which work together: Hernando's Hideaway/Doxology (Praise God from whom all blessings flow...) Others??? |
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02 Oct 98 - 02:03 PM (#40237) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: mmario Amazing Grace/doxology/House of the Rising Sun/Gilligan's Island theme song/hernando's hideaway all*interchangeable* or virtually so... mmario |
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02 Oct 98 - 06:26 PM (#40240) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Jerry Friedman Poets call it ballad stanza and hymnodists (?) call it common meter.
Da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUm |
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11 Dec 04 - 01:29 AM (#1353728) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,JIWeathers@aol.com Does anyone know where I can get a recording of Amazing Grace done to the House of the Rising Sun melody??? |
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11 Dec 04 - 01:48 AM (#1353731) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: masato sakurai It's on Blind Boys of Alabama's Spirit of the Century. You can hear the sound clip HERE. |
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11 Dec 04 - 02:16 AM (#1353734) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,robinia |
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11 Dec 04 - 02:57 AM (#1353749) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,robinia Sorry about that empty posting! "The old melody," as sung by Horton Barker of Beech Creek, North Carolina, and recorded by Sandy Paton for Folkways Records FA 2362 is not only beautiful; it also extends the song with its chorus of : I want to live a Christian here; I want to die a shouting. I want to feel my savior near When soul and body's parting. A hauntingly hypnotic version (and I seem to recall Jean Ritchie saying she was familiar with it). Also, after learning and singing it for years from the record, I see upon checking back that I have unwittingly made a small change: "I want to live a Christian life." |
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11 Dec 04 - 08:44 PM (#1354397) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: masato sakurai For other earlier tunes to "Amazing Grace," see Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection, where they're AZMON, NEW BEDFORD, CORINTH, NOYES, AMAZING GRACE (different tune), and MEAR. |
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12 Dec 04 - 09:27 AM (#1354651) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Uncle_DaveO At the MBA session in (I think) 2000 I had the pleasure of hearing Debbie McClatchey play and sing, among other things, Amazing Grace. She used a different tune than the one that's usually heard, and it was very convincing and pleasing. I have no idea what the name of that tune was, but from context it seemed that it was a well established Amazing Grace tune. Dave Oesterreich |
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13 Dec 04 - 12:49 AM (#1355286) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST Amazing Grace can also be sung to a wide array of songs that use a series of 8 4/4 measures , e.g.: ---America The Beautiful (Materna) ---Auld Lang Syne (To which tune, BTW, Katherine Bates's "ATB" poem was often sung for 2 years in the early 1890s) ---Puff, The Magic Dragon ---Let Me Call You Sweetheart --- Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" |
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13 Dec 04 - 07:27 PM (#1356075) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Burke Hernando's Hideaway/Doxology are Long Meter: 8,8,8,8 while Amazing Grace is Common Meter 8,6,8,6. It's not that hard to fit AG to the LM tunes with some extra slurs, but you tend to run out of notes when you reverse the process. |
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13 Dec 04 - 10:10 PM (#1356179) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,.gargoyle Many verses of Emily Dickenson go zero to the bone.
Sincerely, |
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14 Dec 04 - 12:26 AM (#1356236) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: DADGBE The theme from the American TV show, Gilliagn's Island seems to fit. |
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14 Dec 04 - 03:57 AM (#1356339) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Splott Man Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer works too. |
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01 Mar 05 - 05:01 PM (#1424262) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,Stiller@homemail.com Does anyone know the "Amazing Grace" lyrics that can be sung to the tune of Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)? I am looking for sacred lyrics to this tune that are appropriate to the Lenten season. Thanks. |
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01 Mar 05 - 05:40 PM (#1424299) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Burke See THIS THREAD for Danny Boy/Air from Derry hymn words. |
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01 Mar 05 - 06:33 PM (#1424355) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: open mike air from Derry = Derriere? |
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01 Mar 05 - 06:39 PM (#1424363) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Stephen R. Gargoyle, Garrison Keillor beat you to it--some years ago he sang "Because I could not stop for Death' to the tune of 'The Yellow Rose of Texas'. Stephen |
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01 Mar 05 - 08:30 PM (#1424471) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: BanjoRay Uncle DaveO - Debby McClatchy uses a lovely modal tune she wrote herself. Cheers Ray |
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01 Mar 05 - 08:55 PM (#1424489) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: frogprince My wife has sung it in church to the tune "The Water is Wide"; actually very pretty. It takes as little very simple adaption, as "I once was blind, but now I see". We added one verse: Though grace may grow familiar now Like any song, sung one old way Lord, touch my heart, lest I forget Your grace is new, each breaking day. |
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21 Mar 05 - 09:27 PM (#1440129) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,Georgiemay Does anyone know where I could find a Recording of Amazing Grace to the Gilligan Island theme song? Also did you Know that you can sing Amazing Grace to the 1971 coke a cola song and the eagles take it easy. |
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21 Mar 05 - 09:57 PM (#1440155) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Wincing Devil The Corsairs (Pirate/Shanty singers from texas) have a hidden track on on of their albums, where they do Amazing Grace to just about everything, including the Theme from the TV Show Dallas |
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23 Nov 10 - 11:53 AM (#3038730) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,Twicecalledson You can sing it to Peter, Paul and MAry's Puff the Magic Dragon |
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23 Nov 10 - 12:32 PM (#3038765) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: fretless My daughter learned the Gilligan's Island version at church camp. I've never heard it on a recording, though. Amazing Grace also works perfectly to the tune of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and vice-versa. I learned that one years ago at a St. Royster's Day celebration at Ranger Steve's house. |
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23 Nov 10 - 01:50 PM (#3038827) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: EBarnacle In one of Dewey Lambdin's books [I will present the exact citation in a later post, He has the crew of the frigate Proteus, under the command of Alan Lewrie in 1799 singing it to another hymn. The footnote is that the melody was not regularized to the commonly known one until about 1807 +/-. |
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23 Nov 10 - 03:28 PM (#3038900) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: EBarnacle The name of the book is "A King's Trade." |
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23 Nov 10 - 03:39 PM (#3038905) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Joybell "All songs will sound the same when they call out your name In that small-town talent quest up in the sky." Mike O'Rouke. (Australia) From "This Song is a Cross" |
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17 Apr 11 - 05:36 PM (#3137049) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,lenorebeadsman "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams) works quite well! |
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17 Apr 11 - 06:32 PM (#3137088) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Art Thieme The theme from the TV show Gilligan's Island works perfectly. Art Thieme |
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02 Apr 16 - 05:31 AM (#3782763) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Jack Campin I just found a snippet from the Scottish paper "The People's Journal", no date. It's a letter to the editor, and says: Reference to "Amazing Grace" in today's "The People's Journal". The hymn is to be found, No.231, in the original "Sacred Songs and Solos", compiled by Ira D. Sankey. It is sung to the psalm tune Warwick and was composed from the text II. Corinthians 4, 15. - A "Journal" Reader, Beauly. "Warwick" is nothing like the familiar tune. |
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03 Apr 16 - 05:51 AM (#3782942) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,(hey, where did that cookie go) BobL Common Metre. The classic example is "While Shepherds Watched" - if a tune fits that, it will fit "Amazing Grace", e.g. Auld Lang Syne, House of the Rising Sun, Crimond and hundreds more. Rudolph & Puff are not Common Metre, and don't work unless mucked about. |
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03 Apr 16 - 07:26 AM (#3782971) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Mr Red Alan & John Lomax's enormous tome had a version with a chorus. I would bet it is on the on-line new archive at the Library of Congress |
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03 Apr 16 - 10:17 AM (#3783036) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Megan L found this site when trying to remember warick A bit jazzy for me but a good metre resource |
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03 Apr 16 - 04:23 PM (#3783139) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST Teddy Bears' Picnic should fit. |
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03 Apr 16 - 07:34 PM (#3783168) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Jack Campin The pojnt I was making was not what you could sing it to, but what people actually did sing it to. Here is somebody writing from Scotland some time around 1900 saying that the standard tune is something most of us today have never heard. |
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04 Apr 16 - 03:34 AM (#3783219) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Mr Red My broadband worked long enough to find this Library of Congress Lomax Iconic Song list (third on the list) |
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16 Oct 16 - 05:54 PM (#3815059) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,Rob K 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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17 Oct 16 - 09:42 AM (#3815145) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: clueless don I have had a theory (maybe it's just a hypothesis [an hypothesis???] at this point) that any song can be sung either to I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General or to When I was a Lad (and Now I am the Leader of the Queen's Navy) - sometimes to both. Amazing Grace seems to fit nicely with Major General. Not so well with When I was a Lad, though it can work with some shoehorning. Don |
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17 Oct 16 - 10:47 AM (#3815158) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: Teribus Alastair McDonald sings Amazing Grace to the tune of Robert Burns "My Love is like a red, red Rose" |
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21 Jul 18 - 05:11 PM (#3938680) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST,Samuel J. Hardman Many thanks. The famous melody we now associate with "Amazing Grace" first appeared in "Columbian Harmony" in 1829, and also in "The Virginia Harmony" in 1831. However, the melody was first "married" to John Newton's "Amazing Grace" in William ("Singing Billy") Walker's "The Southern Harmony" in 1835. Indeed, this must have been a marriage made in heaven! |
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22 Jul 18 - 10:55 PM (#3938852) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: keberoxu Come back, Masato! I recall hearing the Blind Boys of Alabama snippet on national public radio. Riveting. But then, they are the Blind Boys of Alabama and they could make the telephone directory sound riveting. |
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30 Jul 20 - 12:48 PM (#4066581) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: GUEST I had a youth choir back in the late 70s that would sing the words to Amazing Grace to the Coca-Cola song that was popular back then. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing...... |
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31 Jul 20 - 06:34 AM (#4066678) Subject: RE: Melodies for Amazing Grace From: clueless don Thank you, GUEST! That's delightful. |