Wintley Phipps – Amazing Grace

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[Wintley Phipps - Amazing Grace]

[Unknown Black Slave - John Newton - Amazing Grace]

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Wintley Phipps is the President of the U.S. Dream Academy an organization for children of prisoners. Many of these young people have been left behind in their school work and Wintely and this fine organization is making a difference.

[Wintley Augustus Phipps (born January 7, 1955)] Source: LYBIO.net
This has been an awesome night, isn’t it everyone. Ya. How many of you like negro spirituals. An old black lady down south showed me something about Negro Spirituals that I wanna share it with you. Ah, the black folk down south have more sense by accident than some of us have on purpose. You know what I mean. You didn’t hear what I said. I heard an old black lady say: “Son if the mountain was smooth you couldn’t climb it.” Ah huh, think about that for a minute. But did you know, she said to me: “Did you know all – just about all Negro Spirituals are written on black notes of the piano. This is absolutely true, you can go home tonight and almost play any Negro Spiritual, just play the black notes on the piano. You look skeptical. Now, you can’t see it out there, but I want you to watch. Watch. There are five black notes on the piano, and those same black notes just keep occurring. And you can go home tonight and play almost any Negro Spiritual just play the black notes. Watch. You know that: “Every-time I feel the spirit”. Just black notes. Watch this.

[Wintley Phipps] Source: LYBIO.net
That’s because the slaves didn’t come to America with: “Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do”. That’s somebodies else’s scale/skit, ok. All they had in their musical scale were there five black notes we know it as the Pentatonic scale and they built the power and the pathos of the negro spiritual on five notes. When you study music you also come across what are known as: “White spirituals.” Did you know that? And there are white composers who work with those that scale, in early American they used to call it the: “The Slave Scale”. And I’m gonna play for you what some musicologists think is the most famous white spiritual built on the slave scale with just the black notes.

“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.”

[Wintley Phipps] Source: LYBIO.net
Anybody tonight know who wrote that song? I heard it, a man by the name of John Newton. But do you know what John Newton did before he became a Christian, he was the captain of a slave ship. And many believe heard this melody that sounds very much like a West African sorrow chant and wrote the words: “Amazing Grace”, and set his words to a slave melody. I looked up that song, I believe god wanted that song written just he way it was written just so we would be reminded as Christians whether black or white ( ) or ( ) in his eyes, we are all connected. We are connected. And we are connected by God’s Amazing Grace. Hallelujah! We are connected by God’s Amazing Grace. Whooo! I looked up that song in the Library of Congress, I looked up, I went to the library of congress, I looked up that song and – and where ever you see it authentically printed, you know what it says: “Words: John Newton, Melody: Unknown”. I tell the lord when I get to heaven I want to met Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and boy I wanna met that slave called: Unknown. And I – And I – I recorded that song the way I hear it when I sing it, I still hear the sounds of the slave ships from the water, I wanna sing it for you the way John Newton probably first heard it coming out of the belly of the ship. Listen:

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Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now I’m found,
Was blind, but now I see

When we’ve been here ten thousand years
Bright shining as the sun.
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
Than when we’ve first begun.

Hallelujah Hallelujah
Amen~

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Wintley Phipps – Amazing Grace. I looked up that song and it says: “Words: John Newton, Melody: Unknown”. I tell the lord when I get to heaven I want to met Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and boy I wanna met that slave called: Unknown. Complete Full Transcript, Dialogue, Remarks, Saying, Quotes, Words And Text.