AMAZING GRACE ON THE BLACK NOTES

November 30, 2011

Amazing Grace

“At Carnegie Hall, gospel singer Wintley Phipps delivers perhaps the most powerful rendition of Amazing Grace ever recorded.  He says, ‘A lot of people don’t realize that just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano.  Probably the most famous on this slave scale was written by John Newton, who used to be the captain of a slave ship, and many believe he heard this melody that sounds very much like a West African sorrow chant.'”

Amazing Grace

I would like to thank Madge Franks for this very inspirational and instructive video.

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THERE’S A RAINBOW SOMEWHERE, YOU WERE BORN TO BE THERE, YOU’RE JUST RUNNING IN CIRCLES – ‘TIL YOU REACH OUT YOUR HAND TO THE KING OF HEARTS

November 22, 2011


All alone drifting wild/Like a ship that’s lost out on the ocean

Everyone’s a homeless child/And it’s not hard to understand

Why we need a Father’s hand

(C) There’s a rainbow somewhere/And you were born to be there

But you’re just running in circles

Till you reach out your hand to the King of Hearts…

Pockets full of pain and fear/That’s a load there’s just no need to carry

Let it go and leave it here/Now there’s no price that’s left to pay

With one more mile or one more day. (C)

You can try to catch the wind/But in the end you’re only wasting precious time

Life can really be so kind/Once you find the truth and follow, go on follow, follow (C)

Randy Stonehill, 1976

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A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD

November 2, 2011

AMEN!!!

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