Blind Boys of Alabama
Amazing Grace
Spirit Of The Century

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tkosh
Jun 09, 2013 - 17:42
YourNameHere wrote:
I don't care if they sing it to Helter Skelter. I hate this song.


I'm not sure if most of us really care, but thanks for letting us know.


ccjemmett
Jun 09, 2013 - 17:41
Brilliant

ferwoman
Mar 17, 2013 - 14:27
This was my grandmother's favorite song. My brother played acoustic guitar and sang this at her memorial service. It was a moving tribute to a wonderful and funny woman. So, contrary to your views, I love this song. Liked it even while she was alive.

YourNameHere wrote:
I don't care if they sing it to Helter Skelter. I hate this song.





mfcrowe
Jan 03, 2013 - 15:21
I think this might change your mind about these guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA17BmsklFA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE4k76VjGdY

As he says at the end of this version of Amazing Grace, "if this don't make you feel good, you ain't got nothin"

(former member) wrote:


sounds like they took Quaaludes before they recorded this...






maxmox
Jan 03, 2013 - 14:39
hencini wrote:
First time I heard Amazing Grace sung to the tune of House of the Rising Sun was on XRT 93.1 driving a loaded moving van South out of Chicago. Cool, early summer night, windows down. Very memorable.

Did you catch their work on Ben Harper's 'There will be a Light'?


Sasha2001
Jan 03, 2013 - 14:35
"...and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy. Oh lord, I know I'm one..."

Oh wait, thats a different song.


bhambaker
Oct 01, 2012 - 11:32
romeotuma wrote:


sounds like they took Quaaludes before they recorded this...


I agree... a couple extra foot stomps per minute would help. Can't deny those vocals thought.


TJS
Oct 01, 2012 - 11:28
nope.


bluecshells
Oct 01, 2012 - 11:28
Thanks RP


S-curvy
Aug 09, 2012 - 18:46
YourNameHere wrote:
I don't care if they sing it to Helter Skelter. I hate this song.

YourNameHere: Since you be hatin' this 'un, we'll all just forgive ya! And no joke, I ain't no religy-ous 'un myself.

As per Wikipedia: "" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with lyrics written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton (1725–1807), published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God"
Well, that "God" stuff is a personal choice, but forgiveness is a wonderful and necessary human act. Peace. {#Sunny}


YourNameHere
Aug 09, 2012 - 18:29
I don't care if they sing it to Helter Skelter. I hate this song. {#Frustrated}


Nerubo
Aug 09, 2012 - 18:28
Like all great covers, this messes with your mind, in a good way.


kaybee
Jul 30, 2012 - 16:51
This is great! And I hate the more common tune to this piece because it's been played to death. (House of the Rising Sun was played to death too, but this is so different from the Animal's version of that song, that it sounds fresh.)


AvoidingWork
Jul 30, 2012 - 13:02
I like all the comments wondering if they know they are singing to the wrong tune. Like somebody played a trick on them, or that through all the rehearsals and productions nobody said, Hey that sounds like House of the Rising Sun.

Perhaps if they had sung Amazing Grace to the tune from Gilligan's Island it wouldn't have freaked people out so much.

Try it, it works. To get you started... "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale..."


coyote620
Jul 30, 2012 - 12:34
Wow!


namp
Jul 30, 2012 - 12:33
There is a house in New Orleans...


(former member)
Jun 07, 2012 - 14:36


sounds like they took Quaaludes before they recorded this...




by_jove
Mar 04, 2012 - 11:42

Awesome track! I didn't know this had been recorded.

Amazing Grace can be sung to the tune of even more songs than songs that this—and visa versa—including "O, Susannah!," "Camptown Races," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," and "I've Been Working on the Railroad." We like to mix up these songs for our own amusement:

I come from Alabama,
With my Banjo on my knee,
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.




hencini
Mar 04, 2012 - 11:21
First time I heard Amazing Grace sung to the tune of House of the Rising Sun was on XRT 93.1 driving a loaded moving van South out of Chicago. Cool, early summer night, windows down. Very memorable.


pk53
Jan 01, 2012 - 00:25
unclehud wrote:

You can hear this kind of music every Sunday in churches throughout the the Southland — and on Wednesday night and Saturday night, too. Y'all come see us!

Amazing Grace or House of the Rising Sun.....interesting...




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