Compatibility testing[edit]

Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).

Amazing grace

from the Library of Congress' John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip; performed by Mr. and Mrs. N.V. Braley on 5 May 1939 at the home of Beal D. Taylor near Medina, Texas

Amazing grace

Performed on an Organ

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Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).Another version was used as the ending song for the Japanese drama series Shiroi Kyoto(2003-2004 version).

Amazing grace

from the Library of Congress' John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip; performed by Mr. and Mrs. N.V. Braley on 5 May 1939 at the home of Beal D. Taylor near Medina, Texas

Amazing grace

Performed on an Organ

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Lyrics[edit]

Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often with the singer voicing his or her "personal woes in a world of harsh reality: a lost love, the cruelty of police officers, oppression at the hands of white folk, hard times".^[1] Many of the oldest blues records contain gritty, realistic lyrics, in contrast to much of the music being recorded at the time. One of the more extreme examples, "Down in the Alley" by Memphis Minnie, is about a prostitute having sex with men in an alley. Music such as this was called "gut-bucket" blues. The term refers to a type of homemade bass instrument made from a metal bucket used to clean pig intestines for chitterlings, a soul food dish associated with slavery and deprivation. "Gut-bucket" described blues that was "low-down" and earthy, that dealt with often rocky or steamy man-woman relationships, hard luck and hard times. Gut-bucket blues and the rowdy juke-joint venues where it often was played, earned blues music an unsavory reputation. Upstanding church-going people shunned it, and some preachers railed against it as sinful. And because it often treated the hardships and injustices of life, the blues gained an association in some quarters with misery and oppression. But the blues was about more than hard times; it could be humorous and raunchy as well:

Rebecca, Rebecca, get your big legs off of me,

It may be sending you baby, but it's worrying the hell out of me.