Talk:Amazing Grace
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Why did we just copy this text from ? That's copyrighted, isn't it? I'm puzzled. --LMS
The hymn is in the public domain.
- The hymn may be, but if the lead-up text isn't, it should be deleted. -- April
From article:
Composed probably between 1760 and 1770 in Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, "Amazing Grace" was possibly one of the hymns written for a weekly service. Through the years other writers have composed additional verses to the hymn which came to be known as "Amazing Grace" (it was not thus entitled in Olney Hymns), and possibly verses from other Newton hymns have been added. However, these are the six stanzas that appeared, with minor spelling variations, in both the first edition in 1779 and the 1808 edition, the one nearest the date of Newton's death. It appeared under the heading Faith's Review and Expectation, along with a reference to First Chronicles, chapter 17, verses 16 and 17 (http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?1chr+17:16-17).
Star Trek
I have removed the following sentence from this article's introduction:
- In Star Trek II, when Spock is (temporarily) dead, Scotty plays Amazing Grace on bagpipes for his funeral.
This kind of trivia is not appropriate, in my opinion, for a serious encyclopedic article, let alone the introduction to such an article. Rje 13:58, May 6, 2005 (UTC)
Inappropriate link
A link was added to a documentary entitled "Amazing Grace" which was not a film about the hymn, but rather a general history of Calvinism. While this link might be appropriate on the Calvinism page, it didn't belong here, simply because it had the same title as the hymn. I removed it. KHM03 22:40, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
About the storm
Is that really relevant to the song itself? No point seems to be made about it all.
