Dave, And thus ranting his heart's truth emerged. "...Amazing grace a slaver tune,..." ? "...an Englishman at that..." ? ...wee his cowardy custard minister pal." ? There is obviously a history to the tune that I am not aware of. Am I the only one? Could you expand a bit on what seems an interesting tune tale? Arthur Murchison Researching the Murchison family murchiso001@hawaii.rr.com ---------- >From: ScotHeritage@aol.com >To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SCT-INV-L] Re: Macisaac site >Date: Tue, Aug 29, 2000, 11:37 AM > > In a message dated 29/08/00 4:00:47 PM Central Daylight Time, > peter_mcdonald@sftw.com writes: > > << The Scottish Festival in Pleasanton is the oldest and biggest in the > world, > run by the Caledonian Club of SF. > I go for the Scottish pastries and the Band Competition which is out of > this world, all different grades of from all different countries. Then on > Sunday they have all of the bands in a massed organisation in the front of > the grandstand, playing "Amazing Grace" and others. > Its a tear jerker.... > Peter >> > > That Amazing grace a slaver tune, and an Englishman at that wee his cowardy > custard minister pal. Give this lad Scotland the Brave, The Old Black Bear, > The Mist Covered Mountains, and Flower of Scotland. Grand tunes nae thon > stinky slow things. I'm no there to cry I'm there to Festival. The Inverness > Gathering, Ball of Kerrie Muire and such a good dram and a sing song, not > thoin stand and clap and be polite. Boy I needed that rant, > AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHhh that feels better. Haven't had a meaningless rant in days. > Cheers Dave >