Amazing Grace sung to House of the Rising Sun

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Eilee George performs "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun" at Swallow Hill Music in Denver, April 2019. Her introduction to this mashup at the event:
“Well, with this month comes Easter, and that inspired my song choice. When John Newton wrote…"Amazing Grace", it didn’t come with a melody, and the song was superimposed over quite a few different melodies through the years–as was, in the 1800’s, pretty popular to do–in fact it can be laid over "Greensleeves" pretty well…but this wandering from song to song that these lyrics went over means that there’s nothing sacred in a melody. More recently, someone decided they would superimpose it over the chord progression for "House of the Rising Sun"–and I thought it was genius. And it sparked some debate amongst some Christians; some thought it was disrespectful, but as a Christian myself, I don’t find it that way at all: I respectively disagree. When you look at these two songs, and each man’s story, it’s a beautiful juxtaposition, and these two tales dovetail. Because in "House of the Rising Sun", your symbolic man who is telling that story, is steeped in sin, yet wanting out of it, wanting to escape the enslavement, and is seeking salvation, and it’s sort of a lamentation, whereas, in "Amazing Grace", which is in more of a major key rather than a minor, is a praise song, and this man is already saved, and is looking back at what he was saved from, and is terribly grateful for this. And you think of these two men who represent these two songs–they can look at each other: one, at the other one, as his past, and the other, looking back at the one, as his potential. And I think this echoes the dichotomy that a lot of Christians live in their walk, it’s this sort of trying to transcend humanity while still shackled to it; we’re still sinners but we’re trying to do better every day. And I think that these songs remind us, when you combine them, that we’re not to become self-righteous; we’re supposed to remain humble, and remember that temptations lie around every corner. It’s a reminder that believers or unbelievers, we have a lot more in common than we have in differences, and we should love each other. So that’s my reasoning behind this.”

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