Carol Thompkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As a Quaker for many years, I can guarantee you that Amazing Grace is not a
> Quaker hymn. Quakers don't sing at meeting except in rare instances, nor do
> we have hymns.
I think Philip meant the Shakers, not the Quakers (slight difference!).
Anyway, it's Lord of the Dance (the well-known Irish traditional song
written by Sydney Carter some time during the 1960s or so) which derives
from a Shaker (not Quaker) hymn called Simple Gifts. You can hear the
tune in Copeland's Appalachian Spring, among other places.
Anselm
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Anselm Lingnau .......................................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Think where man's glory most begins and ends/And say my glory was I had such
friends. -- William Butler Yeats, *The Municipal Gallery Re-Visited*
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