Can I please rant about Danny Boy and Fields of Athenry?
Yes I do realize this is the NSP list, but if Colin can bring up
Kumbya... :-)
--Mike
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From: colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:42:51 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Amazing Grace
Just don't get us playing Kumbya. :)
Colin Hill
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From: "Jim Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NSP Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:00 PM
Subject: [NSP] Amazing Grace
>
> Dear Paul Gretton,
>
> Relax. Chill out. Take a pill. The sky isn't about to fall.
>
> Referring to Amazing Grace as an "awful piece of slop" suggests,
> to me at least, that you're having a bad hair day, you have some kind
> of bee in your bonnet, or you got up on the wrong side of the bed.
> Or all of the above. Life's too short to work yourself into such a
lather,
> my friend.
>
> Oh, I know the tune is hackneyed and shopworn. I know all that. I
also
> know it's one of only several tunes that ever gets associated with
> Highland
> bagpipes these days. As a musician, born in Scotland, with a deep
love of
> piping in all its forms, that bothers me as well. But don't blame the
tune
> for that.
>
> I went to a beautiful Remembrance Day service yesterday. Here
(Canada),
> Amazing Grace has been part of such events for a great many years.
The
> pipe
> band and the military band play it together as the wreaths are laid
on the
> cenotaph. Even though I've heard that "awful piece of slop" thousands
of
> times,
> it still moves me to tears. As does the solitary piper with Floo'ers
o'
> the Forest.
>
> It's ingrained now, Paul. It's part of something that's bigger than
all of
> us, part of
> a tradition that means a lot to a lot of people.
>
> Don't begrudge us that.
>
> Regards,
> Jim
>
>
> PS
> I think Highland Cathedral is a nice tune.
> Not ashamed to admit it.
>
>
>
>
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