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Fun fact: "Amazing Grace", like many hymns, was not married with the tune it's sung to now until sometime in the mid-19th century.<ref>The tune is called "New Britain"</ref> Any example of it being sung to the same melody [[Hollywood History|before then]] is a (admittedly understandable) case of [[Did Not Do the Research]]. On rarer occasions, the final verse ("When we've been there ten thousand years…") may be heard in a setting before it was actually added in the late 1800s. To hear what it would have sounded like in its old tune, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgSt5vnN3h4 check out this link] of Sacred Harp singers (who also sing a lot of other old-timey hymns in a much more lively and bombastic fashion than what you might picture as typical dull church music).
Another fun fact: It uses the [[Common Meter]], a meter which is, naturally, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|very common]]. As such the same [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Amazing_Grace lyrics] can be sung to the tune of ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]''{{'}
[[Rule of Three|And another fun fact:]] The song is occasionally shown as being sung by American slaves prior to the Civil War, it being far more recognizable than any true "slave songs." Appropriately, it was [http://www.snopes.com/religion/amazing.asp written by a slave trader] after he [[Heel Face Turn|gave up the business]] and became a [[The Atoner|minister]], [[Captain Obvious|which is the reason for the line "That saved a wretch like me."]]
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