Amazing Grace, long version?

[CHasR]

Yes I've played that modern Christian-praise-pop version with the added bridge, called Amazing Grace, My Chains Are Gone. (It's a bridge, not a variation, BTW.) The first time I heard it I threw up a little in my throat but now it's grown on me a bit.
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I feel your pain.

I'm sorry Oleo...pain *begins* when one hears the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy" up until that point, it's all cake

[ausdag]

Regardless of what you think of the ethics of reworking an out-of-copyright traditional song, so far it's the only suggestion that actaully addresses the OP's question, viz what did the customer mean by 'the longer version of Amazing grace'.

Ethics?

What a fabulous idea, steal a traditional piece

"steal" / "Not Steal" = 'ethics'

[Nanohedron]

...pain *begins* when one hears the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"

Then there was the time a drunk lady zigzagged up to the stage and asked if we knew Danny Boy, and before we could even lie that we didn't, to help us along she started singing its opening lines to the tune of O Holy Night while swinging her drink. She got stuck after "calling", scratched her head, and zigzagged her way back into the crowd. And it wasn't even Saint Paddy's.

[CHasR]

Nano, I just LOVE showbiz . Usually.

[Nanohedron]

IIRC, that was the same lady who was tired of hearing just tunes and wanted a song or two. You know the type. In reference to the tunes she said, "That Irish hip-hop is all well and good, but...".

True story.

I never even knew there was a "long version" of Amazing Grace until this thread.

[PJ]

I never even knew there was a "long version" of Amazing Grace until this thread.

It's not longer. It just feels longer.

[oleorezinator]

IIRC, that was the same lady who was tired of hearing just tunes and wanted a song or two. You know the type. In reference to the tunes she said, "That Irish hip-hop is all well and good, but...".True story.

I once played at an awards banquet for a local
social service agency with a tenor banjo player
and a bodhran player during the cocktail hour and dinner.
The bodhran player goes to the bar for a drink and overhears
a conversation that went like this: "What kind of music are they playing?"
The answer: "I think it's Greek Music." Maybe it was.

[CHasR]

True story. .

gee, ya dont say!

In reference to the tunes she said, "That Irish hip-hop is all well and good, but...

darn! this gig's story just gets better + better!

[Nanohedron]

Yeah, say what you will about the headaches; you wind up with some good stories about stuff you couldn't make up, that's for sure.

[Cathy Wilde]

...pain *begins* when one hears the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"

Believe it or not, there is a critter akin to that out there; I've met it (and blocked the details from memory). But basically, it was "Amazing Grace" on the pipes as the intro, then the orchestra came in with an instrumental of "Danny Boy" in D, and over that there was a recitation about the Rockefeller (or someone wealthy) kids drowning in the Titanic disaster.* Then the choir dove in and sang something else entirely different but even bigger. ~ The End. ~

* Somewhere, somehow, faith came into it but it felt like the story was forced into someone's purpose and seemed like a sketchy argument to me.

[Nanohedron]

Gawd. Just imagining it, I can feel my arteries hardening.

[pancelticpiper]

"Amazing Grace" on the pipes as the intro, then the orchestra came in with an instrumental of "Danny Boy" in D, and over that there was a recitation about the Rockefeller (or someone wealthy) kids drowning in the Titanic disaster. Then the choir dove in and sang something else entirely different but even bigger. ~ The End. ~

OMG it sounds like something out of an Andre Rieu concert!

[pancelticpiper]

the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"

Though of course there's nothing unusual about singing a hymn to various melodies- it's how traditional hymnody works.

There is no tune "Amazing Grace", it being a hymn, a hymn being words only, and utterly tuneless. It's usually sung to the tune NEW BRITAIN but just as appropriately to any tune with the same meter. (It's why hymnals have a Metrical Index in the back, so that after the hymn is chosen, you can look over various tunes which might be used.)

At the White House immediately following 9-11 a military choir sung Amazing Grace to a tune other than NEW BRITAIN (I can't remember which tune). It was beautiful.

And this, hands down, is the nicest version of Amazing Grace I've ever heard. I don't know the tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmFKZmcGAW0

[Ceann Cromtha]

the words of "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "Danny Boy"

Though of course there's nothing unusual about singing a hymn to various melodies- it's how traditional hymnody works.

There is no tune "Amazing Grace", it being a hymn, a hymn being words only, and utterly tuneless. It's usually sung to the tune NEW BRITAIN but just as appropriately to any tune with the same meter. (It's why hymnals have a Metrical Index in the back, so that after the hymn is chosen, you can look over various tunes which might be used.)

At the White House immediately following 9-11 a military choir sung Amazing Grace to a tune other than NEW BRITAIN (I can't remember which tune). It was beautiful.

And this, hands down, is the nicest version of Amazing Grace I've ever heard. I don't know the tune

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmFKZmcGAW0

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