Ever have one of those days where you wake up with a song in your head?
Hmm let me rephrase that I always have a song going in my head. It's why I almost never listen to a radio dont have to.
You wake up with a song in your head that you haven't heard in years. Then when you listen to it live, or as close to as possible with a good sound system and actually FEEL the music?
Well I did that today. Now I'm Canadian and proud of it. However today's song was Amazing Grace, vocals, bagpipes, and orchestra. I don't remember where I heard it or who sings it.
However listening to something similar, no vocals, on youtube got the song in my head going stronger.
And I cried, not happy nor sad tears but tears all the same. I'm sure there is a story in that somewhere but im still trying to get the next chapter of Trip out.
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Celtic Women's version, it's awesome
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nice scenery but the singing is not to my taste.
John Newton...
...the song arose out of a life changed by conversion after years as a member of the slave trade between Africa and the Americas. Whenever I hear it, however, I think of the final scene in Star Trek II, where Spock's memorial is celebrated in part by the song played on, aye, bagpipes.
It's a very powerful bit of history and music, even for those who don't follow a particular faith; speaking of freedom and reconciliation and forgiveness. In the framework of that, perhaps your character might come to experience those things in the context of being transgendered?
Love, Andrea Lena
Go Native....
If I have to listen to it with vocals, I love Walela's version (Rita Coolidge and her sister's, I believe) ... it's in Cherokee, complete with the mandatory bagpipe at the end. Just beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1nm_aWSqNs
However, I prefer to hear it with just the pipes.
PB
AG in Cherokee
Beautifull!
Thankyou
LoL
Rita
Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
(Mark Twain)
LoL
Rita
Amazing Grace
Look for the "Blind boys of Alabama" version.
Have you heard the song
Amazing Grace played at the end of Star Trek Wrath Of Khan? It is done mainly with bagpipes.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Amazing Grace.
My Version is by the Maverick Choir.
IE. From the movie Maverick
Then again, Rhianna's not too bad. ;)
amazing grace is one of the few songs I can sing
have to be a bass for the song, but I can sing it. ....
Maybe you just woke up feeling grateful, hon. But its a good song to have stuck in your head, and a lot nicer than most modern music ...
And
One of the two songs I can play on a recorder.
Amazing Grace
I understand that it is an old Scottish hymn. I have seen it often in United Church of Canada's hymnaries when attending funeral services. The version I prefer - other than bagpipe renditions - is by Nana Mouskouri on her "Gold" disc of greatest hits. Apparantly "grace" refers to some spiritual experience.
I am not much for organized religion so merely find that the hymn moves me in some way. My list of music for my celebration of life opens with Nana's version and closes with the bagpipes one.
Ruth
May the sun always shine on your parade
Amazing Grace versions
There are so many excellent versions that I find it almost impossible to recommend just one. That said, however, I would like to draw your attention to a very underrated one; the studio version from Fourplay - on their album 'Snowbound'.
Not a bagpipe to be heard, but a compulsive, driving background rhythm and delicate handovers to the various instruments. It, without fail, makes me reach for the tissue box.
Have a wonderful day
Di