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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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== [[Film]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''. They play a funeral version of
* This is actually a plot point in ''[[Maverick (film)|Maverick]]'': someone works out that two characters are related when they both sing "Amazing Grace" and get the same words wrong.
* Famously used during [[The Spock|Spock's]] funeral at the end of ''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]''... which seemed a little odd for a Vulcan. And yes, it featured Scotty playing the pipes.
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* The end of Grace Jones's "Williams' Blood."
* Pat Metheny's "Estupenda Graca" from the 1981 ''Offramp'' album is a remix of Amazing Grace, but with Nana Vasconcelos on vocals and berimbau!
* Ani DiFranco had a studio version on her
* [[U2]] used this as an intro to "Where the Streets Have No Name" during their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebHOVTCUDso 360° tour]. Being there to sing along to it with close to 100,000 other people was a surreal experience.
* Craig Morgan name-drops it in both "That's What I Love About Sunday" and "Tough"...
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== [[Radio]] ==
* Subverted by ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'': in one episode, Garrison Keillor and some other people sing "Amazing Grace" to the tune of the ''[[Mickey Mouse Club]]'' Song (you know, the one that goes "M-I-C, K-E-Y, M-O-U-S-E").
== Theater ==
* The song is sung on two occasions in ''[[The Laramie Project]]'', one being Matthew's funeral.
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