Amazing Grace to the tune of The House of the Rising Sun

[@Lumencraft-]

I was just singing Amazing Grace to myself and thinking how cool it would sound to this tune, so I googled it. I can't believe it already exists!!!!!

[@WalterFisher]

Amazing Grace to the tune of Gilligan's Island also exists: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6OXk4Otiqqbbq8😀🙏

[@Lumencraft-]

@@WalterFisher Thanks

[@christianbluesman]

When I was much much younger I loved the house of the rising sun but now older in my 60's and a Christian I love this song now a song of sin to amazing grace Amen

[@jucadvgv3449]

i'm in my 60's, and that's the way we sang it back in the 'hippie days' when i was young - and when it was new to have drums and guitars and such in a church service, and when many churches refused to allow them at all lol.

[@cleansweepapa]

72 years old and have never heard it sang this way ...love it!

[@Michaelatky]

cleansweepapa look up amazing Grace to Gilligan island theme.

[@johnloony68]

The Blind Boys of Alabama have been doing this song/tune combination for many years, so it is nice to see other groups doing it too.

[@Matt-pu4of]

WOW...great job !! Thank you to Jenny's Band for a spectacular performance 11 years ago !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@billcenne7262]

"house" was the first song i ever learned, my bother taught me........never got mad, just taught, half a century ago......he is dying now and when the time comes, i will sing this for HIM

[@rebbekkahholt2647]

I was 9 the first time I heard this.. I was in a kids church choir and my choir leader had me solo.. Her faith in me kept me singing.. I hear this and think of her and how she encouraged me.. LOVE THIS!!

[@ntm4]

Very nice. The tune mixes with the words for great impact and that ending was just beautiful.

[@kharris837]

My FIL passed in October and my MIL's pastor played this on the piano at his service.. it was sooo beautiful. My hubby and I cried our eyes out. My FIL used to play this on the guitar. I'm glad I can still hear a version of it! Awesome job

[@Aquahoma]

W O W!! I would never have even thought that could be done. Amazing and beautiful. Thank you for making my day a little more happy.

[@Raewoo333]

This is beautiful your conviction in your voice is everything xox

[@michelleduerr2754]

I've hated Amazing Grace my whole life. Even argued with the pastor at my grandfather's funeral about it. But I can dig this.

[@JudithBurd-w5l]

Awesome. Beautifully played. ❤😊..

[@garyball1587]

We did this song in 1972 in the youth choir at Grace United Methodist Church in Orlando Florida

[@margaretricher4474]

Wow! They sound great! All acoustic, no microphones! True bluegrass! Love this rendition!

[@dcaa62817]

Years ago, my Sunday school class would sing Amazing Grace to the tune of Peaceful Easy Feeling by the Eagles, with a few lyrics tweeked. I've also heard this to the theme from Gilligan's Island. Both of these are on you tube videos.

[@tetronaut88]

It also works with the original Pokemon theme song, somehow.

[@channahsorah]

Way Cool & touches-the-soul. Our Music Ministry Team sang this just this past Sunday at the Celebration Center for Spiritual Living, Falls Church. And it was weaved into the Message also... Amazing Grace . . . like the Rising Sun ......

[@johne6081]

I've heard another group juxtapose House of the Rising Sun with the Amazing Grace lyrics. It works well. I wonder if anyone has tried singing House of the Rising Sun to the New Britain (Amazing Grace) melody.

[@robertcox8444]

Please play at my funeral

[@JPMusicRoom]

Very good smashup!!!!!! A wonderful rendition! Thanks for the music

[@JamesWilson-dg3er]

I never learnt house of the rising sun, as everyone plays it. now I have a reason to learn it and play it a little differently ;-)

[@marybell3409]

That was so cool. Thank you.

[@danlives4god]

My best friend Tina did this same song in the mall in a karaoke contest no one had heard it sang like that but there may had been someone out there doing it but as far as i know she was the first, when she went to sing a song, (she only sang gospel) there wasn't that many melodies to pick from, but she did it and won first place! Now I see it a lot on the internet she did that song back in 2000. You should check it out. God Bless..

[@darlenelemons7356]

Learned this in church youth in the late 1960’s

[@dennisheaton4008]

LOVE it!!!!! Thank you for sharing this with all of us. :)

[@lynnwilcoxson7]

Absolutely Awesome!!

[@sunshineunlimited]

Yes, our church youth group did this back in the seventies, and it didn't originate with us.

[@jessicakennedy2600]

I love it ❤

[@brentel52]

I love this

[@CarolannWiddowson]

I really liked it

[@barbwagner967]

LOVE this!!

[@OrangeBerry42]

Beautiful, all of it!

[@garyholt4288]

Beautiful

[@danburch9989]

A high school band in Rankin County, MS was ordered off the field for playing "How Great Thou Art" because if was a religious song. This goes to show that is isn't the tune that makes it religious (or rock and roll for that matter), but the words. A lady sang this same song arrangement at our church several years ago.

[@amywigington8854]

Thats cool im from Ms.

[@dontackett]

OMG !!! BRILLIANT !!!!

[@JDSAGE]

Very nicely done.

[@VicGeorge2K6]

I like it how it ends..."in the house of the Risen Son."

[@퍼플레인-q3s]

Oh....Very interesting and unique.......very good

[@folsominc2]

Fantastic!

[@CherylBoyer]

I love it!

[@ditowns5408]

Belíssimo!

[@christianbluesman]

love this

[@joshpotts2630]

We are playing this in class and we have to do it in front of the whole church and I am doing to piano

[@Raewoo333]

I know it was beautiful

[@frankrizzo6404]

Pretty difficult without the monitor speakers.... it is VERY hard to keep the rhythm the but you did well

[@ElizabethHensleyomegasseekerr]

You can also sing Amazing Grace to the theme song of Gilligan's Island

[@channelg9318]

good job

[@deezynar]

Awesome!

[@judyyoung8758]

amazing grace is about how grace relieved fears ...and how grace has kept him safe thus far....just sung to the tune to The house of the rising sun...both awesome songs and music...no matter the topic...it does them both justice.so its your opinion then that The house of the rising sun...being about a brothel shouldnt be mixed with a song about grace being amazing...ok

[@marks6491]

Judy, Don't judge. You say this song originally about a brothel, is not OK. Judy, I drove Taxi at night in downtown Toronto and the people who were the most receptive to hear my testimony about Jesus were the street hookers. It always amazed me. God uses what HE desires to reach the lost. Be bold in Jesus, you will never regret it.

[@voice940]

brilliant!

[@hannaheino9367]

Great!

[@loribouldin4488]

WOW

[@kellycompton6481]

Sweeeeet!

[@AshleyJones-t6e]

People don't realize that house is amazing in a minor chord!

[@ojadkins]

Oh My!!! Never heard this song sang with this tune! I guess I gotta get out more? Wish I could but this on I Tunes? I tried but...NO luck finding it. What is the name of the group performing here? Maybe that will help? Great rendition. I'm gonna try it at my next performance.

[@bertjones3010]

you might want to find a version done as such by the Blind Boys of Alabama.

[@patrickmcwilliams1056]

You can sing House of the Rising Sun to Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

[@justinshepherd4020]

Its a 3,4 not a 45

[@NerdDUBstepO]

common meter ftw!

[@ertipone]

do it without the mandolin.. it would sound better.. but all in all sounds good..

[@jucadvgv3449]

this comment is for those who think it's wrong for this song to be sung to this tune. i think, instead, that john wesley, the guy who wrote the song, would be thrilled! from a young age he was a sailor on a slave ship, someone who was apparently such a ba that even the other sailors were afraid of him sometimes; in other words, not the nicest guy. he had been brought up by a religious mother, had been taught scripture, prayer, etc., but had put that all behind him after she died. one night his ship hit a storm that lasted for several hours, not all on board survived, and he was the one at the wheel. he said later that he started praying, prayed the entire time apparently, and that was the beginning of his transformation. he continued as a sailor for a few years, but never again was the same type of man. when he left the sea he began speaking in churches and eventually became a preacher. he said that he wrote this hymn once when he was preparing a sermon and thinking about what a wretch he had been when god saved him from those stormy seas. finally, i imagine he'd also had plenty of experiences in places like those mentioned in 'the house of the rising sun', so that's why i say i can't imagine him having a problem with the combination of the 2. he'd probably just think it put more emphasis on the point he was trying to make.

[@patrickkelly7085]

John Wesley did not write the song Amazing Grace a Englishman called John Newton wrote it.

[@georgeeaston9387]

"UTTER GARBAGE" The words are wasted by this tune.

[@stalwartnerd]

You do realize that the song Amazing Grace was made by a man, not by God coming down and decreeing the song for worship right?

[@georgeeaston9387]

@@stalwartnerd I did say tune (music) and not the words.

[@stalwartnerd]

@@georgeeaston9387 I mean that changes nothing because I took your statement to mean The words(of Amazing Grace) are ruined by the tune of(House of the rising sun)

[@tonydaspoontonydaspoon3196]

Galglad--Most of your hymns came from bar music.

[@christianbluesman]

Yep your right when slaves got saved they mixed the blues to make that great genre black gospel

[@timothykarr2988]

Some serious dad jeans here.

[@kingobrien_2394]

They didn't even play the first three seconds right

[@ericthemediocre2274]

Blasphemous..and proof that more than just the words matter. The music is just as integral to glorifying God as the lyrics. You took a song written about the unmerited favor of God and the difference it makes in a person’s life and put it with music about prostitution, drunkenness, and gambling. Might I add, for entertainment value, to which you were more than likely paid for. For your sake’s I hope you find the shame in this.

[@whitedragon9731]

Terrible musicians. Duff notes and consistently out of time with each other.

[@galglad]

House of the Rising Sun was a house of ill repute (according to the lyrics) ......this is ridiculous for Amazing Grace. Or in c Church in particular.......just sayin..

[@troysmith6408]

+galglad I think the thumbs up out weigh the thumbs down...just sayin.

[@galglad]

+Troy Smith. I like thumbs....the ups and the downs.....shows everyone can opine with validity.

[@galglad]

+Jackelyn Hardin Everyone to their own style and expectations, folks.

[@CzechcanaSATX]

+galglad - I think many a "church song" got their tune from secular or bar music. It's just MUSIC, which is not in and of itself evil. They took a song about a "house of ill repute" and flipped it and made it about amazing grace ... (which by the way, also applies to prostitutes) --- We are ALL sinners. Just sayin'

[@galglad]

+galglad That's right folks...Everyone to their own op...I didn't say it was evil, Becky just ridiculous for my particular Church.