I've been to several funerals where Amazing Grace was played on bagpipes. As soon as the drone note hits, I'm a wreck. There's just something so soul-gripping about bagpipes, I can't describe it.
To think that this glorious song was written by a former slave trader, who had a revelation about what evils he had done, makes Amazing Grace all the more powerful.
NOT a funeral song!!! Thank you Jesus!! A freedom song. A wedding song. A life after death song. A liberty song. A celebration song. A set the captives free song. A redemption song. A Faith song. A hope song. A LOVE song. Thank you Jesus.
My Memaw would agree wholeheartedly. She was a farmer’s wife, mother and grandmother. She would listen to this over and over. Her favorite hymn. She had a little turntable with a gospel vinyl record of this hymn. She loved God with her whole self. Thank you!
beautiful!. my mother Loved bagpipe music she was proud of her Scottish heritage. At the age of 80, on her way to have a dangerous major surgery, she off-handedly said." I want amazing grace played on bagpipes at my funeral. sadly she died 7 days after the surgery. It took us a few hours of phone time, but we finally found pipers in Mississippi to do this for us. they were very kind and happy to do it for us and they did a beautiful job. i was so happy and proud that we were able to fullfill her last request to me. they would not even let me pay them even thought they had a 6 hour drive. the kindest musicians I have ever met.
There is only one answer for that. The Scottish, and Irish are the only people on the earth who love the bag pipes. If they hate the bag pipes they are not Scottish or Irish.
As a Yorkshire lass, the bagpipes bring goose bumps up on my neck. Great music cuts across all colours, all creeds, all country’s, all people’s. Why can’t the world be one great song.
I’ve been playing the bagpipes over 40 years and I’ve been fortunate enough to play in events just like this one. To be surrounded by the sheer volume of the sound is incredible. What a masterpiece, Bravo
I was watching the solo bag-piper's breathing and I wonder how you don't faint ... it almost looked like he was hyperventilating! Anyway, clearly loads of skill involved, far more than I think people realise in playing the bagpipes and such a unique and haunting (in a good way) sound!
Been attempting to play the highland pipes for over 20 year and currently part of Harris County Honor Guard in Texas as a bagpiper. Unfortunately played AG at too many officers and friends services.
@@JGS123WRPTP If you'd been in Auschwitz when the breakout of peace & freedom was announced by the entrance into the camp of the Scottish Troops playing the bagpipes you might have a different opinion - they too, thought the sound (which they'd never heard before) was coming from heaven and the memory of that music still reduces them to tears!
I just buried “the love of my life” of 72 years with 65 of those years in marriage blissNovember 9, 2024 having this song beautifully played at his dedicatory gravesite services by a member of a local group he piped with!👩🎨👩❤️👨💓
I think there is no musical instrument which is able to more directly hit your heart, your soul, than a bagpipe. Combined with the voice it makes you feel humble. And happy. It truly is amazing.
I totally agree with you...it is a glorious song done this way, uplifting and so moving. I was fortunate to see similar, with just a lone piper way up in the turrets in Edinburgh Castle in 1996. A warm balmy evening at the military tattoo held every August. My Dad was sitting next to me, and the trip was to honour my Mother who had died 9 months before. This was played at her funeral...and in Edinburgh my Dad and I just listened in awe with tears throughout. Every time I hear Amazing Grace I stop and remember. Even a lone piper rang throughout the whole castle :-)
Oh heaven above. This song, this rendition and those pipes. I’m a retired fireman (28 years) and a military brat. I have heard this played so many times by so many people. It’s a flashback to the memories of friends, my brothers in the FD and my parents and relatives who have left this earth. It brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat. Brilliantly performed. Thank you for sharing.
I too am an ex firefighter/paramedic, and a military brat. I have been to far too many funerals, and almost all are with full honors. This rendition still has me crying. I now work with a group that provides rehab services for Fire and Police at extended scenes and our bus is frequently requested to be in processions for LODD funerals. Far too many since COVID.
Everyone in the comments saying how proud they are to be Scottish or a piper, but this performance just reminds me how great God is, and it makes me happy all over again that He calls me one of His children.
@@darkjudge8786 We're sorry you'll never know the joy of Christ and all he brings. Keep worshiping your false deities. I'm sure at some point in time they'll offer great comfort....not.
I'm 72 and still living in Glasgow and this is one of the best renditions I've ever heard. I'm a Royal Engineer and we never cared about colour thank you brother for this.
Listening to Amazing Grace played not only with bagpipes that could be a symbol of holiness but also with the voice of uplifting soul naturally convinces me of the existence of God ❤
This was my granny's favorite song , i still tear up to hear it. I am now saved , and know that i get to see her again on the other side ! Because of His amazing grace. God bless you all , and praise Jesus for saving a sinner like me !
I've heard this song a thousand times and shed a hundred thousands tears. This vocalist's voice is meant for this type of song. If this doesn't bring you to tears, you are deaf or have a heart of stone.
My grandfather passed on his birthday march 30th 2018 one day before my birthday march 31 and when I watch the version with fallen soldiers and their families and dogs at their caskets crying it can bring me to tears. He passed as a beloved grandfather, husband, father, and friend. He served the Korean War, too. It was a massive loss for our family.
THIS WAS “AMAZING”, IM NOW INTO MY 91ST YEAR & WHEN MY DAYS ARE DONE I SO WOULD WANT THIS PLAYED FOR ME AND MY FAMILY. I AM A FIRST GENERATION SCOT & SO PROUD TO HAVE A DUAL CITIZENSHIP. MY HEART SWELLS FOR THE SCOTS. DAVID DOWNIE III
When the world fades away, Your light remains. In the darkest night, Your love sustains me. You are the light that shines even when the shadows surround me, the hope that pierces through my deepest fears. Through every storm, You calm my soul, Your grace has made me whole. You lift my burdens and carry my cares, and I know that in every high and every low, Your love is my foundation. Your love endures, forever strong. You lift me up, where I belong. In every season, You are near, and Your faithful love casts out my fear. No matter the valleys or mountains I face, Your love stays constant, and I have seen Your goodness through every trial. When I fall, You lift me high. Your mercy flows like the endless sky, and You welcome me time and time again, not holding my failures against me, but covering me with grace. In my weakness, You are strong, reminding me that Your power is perfect in my frailty. Your hand has led me all along, and You are my refuge, my hiding place. No fear can stand, no doubt remains because Your love, O Lord, forever reigns. Forever I'll sing of Your saving grace, declaring Your goodness. Your love endures, forever and always, never fading, never failing. It is stronger than anything I could ever imagine, deeper than the ocean and more powerful than any force. You lift me from despair and place me in the safety of Your arms. You are always near, and Your love covers me completely. This love is my song, my anthem of praise. Forever and always, Your love endures. I lost my husband, moved in with my aunt when things went bad for us Kelvin i owe all my gratitude to you for changing my life from being hoemless to owning a home. help me thank him in prayers info@Kelvinjpro,c0m this are the exact lyrics she sang to my kids every nightmm
As a Scottish/ Irish descendent, this was amazing. The gentleman's voice is so powerful, and the bagpipes are just amazing 👏. I'm so glad I stumbled on this. Thank you.
Simply Magnificent and played with bagpipes at my Mother's funeral and it raised the roof Pity they didn't play this at King Charles Coronation as the endless singing became boring 🕯️🕯️🌹🌹🕯️🕯️
@@PartyOf8Please If you had a job that entails no physical work with enormous financial rewards, if you got out of bed and servants washed you then dressed you , if you were followed every where you went by sycophants who constantly told you how fantastic and well loved you are, you my friend would live till a ripe old age like these leeches.
When he sang that first note, I teared up…… now I’m just ugly crying. This song was sung at both my parents funerals and it gets me every single time. Thanks for sharing.
this brought me to my knees crying my eyes out. As a soldier hearing this song, nothing compares to my heart being tortured by this. Such a beautiful version. Bloody well done
My sister must have left her heart in Scotland. She absolutely LOVED this song. When cancer claimed another victim in November 2015, this was played at her funeral. She was 58 years old .200 bagpipes ,Kris!! Can you even IMAGINE it?? R I P, sis. We all miss you and love you every day.
@Jan Johanson First of all, I would like to offer you my deepest condolences and condolences on the death of your sister R.I.P. God bless you and your family
Just a wonderful memory, I live in northwesternMaine and was kacking on a very remote lake surrounded by mountains early one morning, all of a sudden there was the sound of bagpipes! A man out on his dock playing Amazing Grace, I kyacked ove and he played it again just for me!!! I will never ever forget!!!!!
Oh my how wonderful!!!! I am part of an Emmaus Community. ALWAYS on Saturday evenings at our candle light vigils…. If a piper in our community can play his pipes Amazing Grace just elevates it to Glory!
When I hear this it brings tears to my eyes, knowing the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ had mercy on me and called me to Salvation. Seeing lost folks singing this and blindly not knowing the great Truth's that are sounded in this song. The former slave trader who wrote this knew the Author of LIFE, the Savior and King. What grace, what mercy. Its is said that when he was old and near the end of his life his memory was failing, one thing he said, I am a great sinner and God is a great Savior, oh what truth. Praise the Lord Jesus for HIs love and grace to save all those who come to Him by Faith.
The WORD OF GOD is powerful & can save them all ... how wonderful to here this beloved ❤️ gospel song 🎵 . Thank YOU LORD JESUS. YOU ARE MORE THAN ABLE TO SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST!
In Royal Oak Michigan we had a lone piper in our neighborhood. Every night at dusk, he would play amazing grace on his pipes. I am of Scotish ancestry. But when you hear and feel the pipes we are ALL SCOTISH!! Each and everyone! GOD BLESS-BE SAFE.
My neighbor in my family old house plays the pipes every night too. As we are an old protestant family in France, our burial place is in our property. My baby brother gets to lay in the most beautiful place in the world, listening every day to birds singing and at night to the sound of this man.
There is a guy who plays the bagpipes at dusk every evening in a gorgeous wooded area outside San Antonio, TX, known as Grey Forest. Tons of deer grazing in front yards, a nice running creek and narrow 2 lane roads...idyllic, especially for bagpipes!
Amazing Grace and Danny Boy are two songs that bring a timeless power with them, that will surely stretch across the ages deeply touching many, even those without known heritage connecting them to the “British Isles”. Mix in some bagpipes and their power gets amped up markedly! My Mom’s father was born in Uig a tiny “barely a hamlet” on the magically mystical Isle of Skye in the Northern Hebrides at the edge of the North Sea and off the coast of Scotland. Skye was where the iconic song memorializes “Bonnie Prince Charlie” “the man born to be King” of Scotland who fled “over the sea to Skye”. Sir Sean Connery’s Mom was also born and raised there (Uig) hence a number of times over the years when some would “accuse me” of looking a bit like him I would observe the odds were good that our respective family’s sheep dogs very likely looked related! My Dad was first born American and met and married my Mom in England while stationed there for the USAF. Each of my Dad’s two parents arrived through Ellis Island as toddlers with their Italian families settling in Carnegie, Pennsylvania named after the famous Scotsman and steel industrialist who donated virtually all his fortune building libraries all across the USA. My last name is one of the symbols of Florence, Italy and as far as we know our forefathers helped manage the private army for the Medici. So I tell folks that, as far as we know, my forefathers were in charge of ensuring the Masters could sleep soundly so they could be inspired for the Renaissance; a seriously big job and “shoes” that surely feel impossible to try and fill. Oh the pressure! :) My Dad was an electronic defense and intelligence industry pioneer with a presence that often intimidated, who spoke less than most but when he did all paid attention. His presence and look was a bit like a mix of famed actors Brian Dennehy and Gene Hackman. In short, he had a decidedly “buttoned down” presence which was surely also part of spending your entire career working with highly classified defense intelligence community programs, etc and especially through the Cold War. So when one day he told my youngest sister and our Mom on a trip to Britain they were on for my sister’s high school graduation present, that he had a recurring dream of his having been a Roman soldier when he first arrived to the Scottish Highlands, we kept that quiet within the family. But I admit having many times since then, over four decades ago now, imagined a Love Story stretching across the ages with my Mom and Dad being the featured couple; a powerfully striking photograph of my Mom’s grandmother when her grandmother was in her late teens that looks the exact image of my Mom at that age, surely helped inspire that fanciful idea all those decades ago. In sum, both my two sisters and myself along with both of my parents (Mom is still here and we just lost my “middle sister” Debbie this last April) felt a powerful draw to the Scottish Highlands that words alone are ill-equipped to properly describe. On one of my visits at 19 years old and which was absolutely a trip of a lifetime filled with memories I will cherish until the day I leave this life, two words came to me that felt closest at describing for me, the Scottish Highlands; a “haunting beauty”. To fully appreciate those two words describing the Scottish Highlands one should have some understanding and appreciation of the history. There are many reasons I remind folks now and again that when the Romans conquered much of the then-known world the only place they built a wall from sea-to-sea across the mid section of an entire country (based on today’s map, effectively) to keep “those crazy fighting you-know-Whats” on the other side, was in Britain. Finally and for what it is worth, I have gathered numerous largely anecdotal stories over the years with quite a few being moments I describe as “even atheists might reconsider” that help make a respectably strong case for my theory that genome research will one day find a gene that should be named “The Protector Gene”; some of us have “an extra one or few”, I am quite sure. One manifestation of that with me is what I describe as my “overdeveloped sense of Big Brother” as in the kind we’d all surely like to have to help watch over us, be there when we need him, etc. Which helps explain - a little - some number of situations including some that cannot be fully explained without prompting that “even atheists might reconsider” I noted previously, where I was at the exact right place at the exact right time a number of times, to be further blessed in helping save some lives and to be clear no I am not a First Responder, etc. One of those involved being blessed with stopping a suicide try of a young teenage girl that I’ve only been able to share one time I think, without getting a bit choked up; I really need to dig up the Sheriff and Park Ranger reports on that, for posterity. Every time I’ve shared that story - thus far, at least - ALL those listening understand why I observe, “even atheists might reconsider”.
Imagine the world that could be if we gave as much attention to artistic masterpieces as we do to stories of human depravity and stupidity and manipulative narratives. Thank you for uploading.
Oh my God how utterly beautiful. When my first husband wrote out his will whilst serving in the forces this hymn complete with bagpipes was his wish should anything happen during tours of NI. When he eventually passed away in 2001 this was played just as he wished for as he was carried into church. The chap singing at the beginning is like the icing on the cake. Very beautiful. My late husband would have loved it. Thank you for sharing it. Means so much. Xxx
Thank you, Pam. By the way... I have played Amazing Grace many times on the pipes, that my father gave me, when I was 8. And I have played that song at funerals, as well.
I am so glad your husband survived his tours of NI. As a NI citizen I really appreciate your husband and his colleagues for keeping us safe from terrorism. God bless you.
@@blinkyblonk4912 oh I'm sorry-- in my opinion I preferred his solo voice...I could have heard fewer bagpipes. But, I realize the way the sound of the bagpipes strike my ears probably differs from most. Re: tokenism-- perhaps the soloist was, & perhaps not. Nonetheless he was qualified or you can bet he wouldn't have been invited, but invited he was.
Now you get to sit back, live off the taxpayers for the rest of your life and reminisce over how many American life’s you destroyed while you were a union socialist thug.
When I feel hopeless in life on listening to his singing Amazing Grace, I feel like that his real voice does become a comforting as well as encouraging voice from above the heaven and heals my soul. For those of you reading my comment now I’m happy to pray that the upcoming New Year 2025 will be a gold year full of God’s blessings for you around the world 🙏
when I hear that I have to cry right now we have a terrible flood catastrophe here in Germany with a lot of dead people and a lot of missing people - it's really bad here right now.....brillant voice and bagpipes...👍
As an airline pilot, I once had a layover in Los Angeles. I'd flown all night, now I'm in a hotel sleeping all day. About noon, I was awakened by scores of pipes and drums in the hotel courtyard outside my hotel window. That was the best concerts I've ever attended.
While listening to Amazing Grace, I'm being led to pray for the sake of people somewhere in the world who feel like they are in the darkness of life, and that a ray of light against the darkness will shine into their hearts 🙏
In Brazil we sing Auld Lang Syne at funerals and people from other countries find it strange. We have other lyrics about Silence, which means we should be silent in respect and that voice has been silenced until we meet again in Heaven.
This a Scottish tradition, to have the lone piper play till the last person leaves the cemetery plot & area. My SIL had the same for my older brother just a few years ago. Warmed my soul & still I cried...
I once was lost but now I am glad that I found my way to the one and only God who made the heavens and earth. This is so beautiful I still feel the same way I felt when I first heard it. Thanks for bringing it back.
I completely agree 👍 all nations need to come to an understanding and develop peace between one another. This song could definitely do it.. ❤️ love each other and give grace my friend
@@williamoliver82wo Any average of any nation wants peace and to be left alone. It's the greedy heartless leaders that cry for war. You the common person are sacrifice on the alter of war for their sin!
His singing Amazing Grace gently leads me to the gratitude for being alive now. I feel like I might be kept alive loved by God. Great thanks be to God for this Blessing 🙏
Without a doubt this stirs my Scottish ancestral blood. More than that however, it stirs the child of God in me, one of the unworthy redeemed in Christ, and the blood of the only race that matters on this Earth: the HUMAN race. Wonderful. Thoroughly wonderful. Thank you Jell Boesveld for posting this!
I remember picking up an old music book when quite young (5-7) with the basics in music, before I knew I couldn’t sing a lick. In my mind, ears, I did it perfectly, I found out years later. And I still remember myself singing it to perfection. Although I never will. I’m 63 now. Beautiful song
I’ve done a little checking into my Family Tree, and it appears I have Scotch, Irish Descent in my Background too. I intend to check further for more Proof. If it’s True, I Would LOVE to see the Area it’s said that my Ancestry was at in that area. 👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻☠️🇺🇸
@@patrickkelly7085 Still a Very Beautiful and Soul Moving song to hear and Especially when played on Bagpipes. I Love the Sound of it. Being a Veteran, I’d love to have this played Lastly at my Funeral.🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸🧝🏻🏴🎶👍🏻
Listenting to his singing Amazing Grace not only with soul-uplifting but also with soul -encouraging voice feels like suggesting that when we have reached a dead end in life and think we can’t go on any more, that is just the best time to be able to get closest to God.
Thank you so much for the compliments , but without the Berlin Tatoo... Wow!! After the Car Crash I stopped...But..I was so honoured to sing with the AMAZING musicians. Be blessed...I LOVE LOVE you all ...Carl Ellis x
Reminds me of the wonderful Paul Robeson ... as for the bagpipes, well, always makes my day ! Edinburgh-born but raised mostly in England due to RAF parents... Remembering in our prayers flood victims in Germany ...x
Not wanting to detract from the vocalist's superb voice but bear in mind he was mic'd up and the pipers weren't! For many years many of the bands taking part in 'The Worlds' always rehearsed right outside our office in Glasgow - what an amazing sound!
Amazing Grace was written by a ship"s Captain who once delivered slaves to the American colonies! He wrote the song to repent for his sins! Very moving!
Wrote the song when he realized that HE was in chains, and that he was saved by Grace, not by works. He first wrote it for a typical English melidy, but changed it to a slave hymn of sorrow on the pentatonic scale. Many more verses were added on through the years, and then Chris Tomlin gave the song a soaring, wonderful refrain,"My Chains Are Gone" about 12 years ago. Im going to shut up, now.
Not exactly true. The author of the poem worked on a British slave ship he wasn’t a captain. He had an issue with the crew and was sold/given to a black/African/Arab port owner where he was treated as a slave. Accounts differ on how he escaped his enslavement and repatriated to England. He re-converted to his mothers puritan religion and 17 years later wrote the poem about his conversion back to his religion. Nearly a decade after the poem was written it was linked to the tune and used by abolitionists. Long after that event he also issued one and only one statement against slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe manufactured the tale of his being a captain and an abolitionist. “Roots” capitalized on the lie.
@@patrickkelly7085 Not true. The British registry of ship’s captains, both Royal Navy and commercial fleet, does not list him as a captain. You are a victim of the popular mythology.
@@canisscot7763 "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written in 1772 by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725-1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes. Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by others' reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination. He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy. After leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland, so severely that he called out to God for mercy. This moment marked his spiritual conversion but he continued slave trading until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether. He began studying Christian theology and later became an abolitionist. Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper. "Amazing Grace" was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year's Day of 1773. It is unknown if there was any music accompanying the verses; it may have been chanted by the congregation. It debuted in print in 1779 in Newton and Cowper's Olney Hymns but settled into relative obscurity in England. In the United States, "Amazing Grace" became a popular song used by Baptist and Methodist preachers as part of their evangelizing, especially in the South, during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. It has been associated with more than 20 melodies. In 1835, American composer William Walker set it to the tune known as "New Britain" in a shape note format. This is the version most frequently sung today. With the message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Grace" is one of the most recognisable songs in the English-speaking world. Author Gilbert Chase writes that it is "without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns".[1] Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that the song is performed about 10 million times annually.[2] It has had particular influence in folk music, and has become an emblematic black spiritual. Its universal message has been a significant factor in its crossover into secular music. "Amazing Grace" became newly popular during a revival of folk music in the US during the 1960s, and it has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th century.
Damn, why can’t more singers sing in a low voice like this? This is what it’s supposed to sound like when a grown man sings. As for the bagpipes, the pipes and the pipe organ are gods instruments. Nothing finer than those 2. Thanks for sharing this video.
When automakers started putting radios in cars, popular music shifted to high tenor that sounded good on the tiny speakers, from the baritones (think of people like Bing Crosby) who sounded so good on the larger speakers that home radios had.
@@montyharder3663 maybe so, to some degree, but the days of the early automotive radios are a couple generations back in history. There’s more to it than that.
Oh Wow. I am 1st generation Australian with a rich Scottish history. The bagpipes are in my blood and when i hear them play i think of my Dad who was a very proud scotsman right to the end. This was beautiful.
@@EDDY-to2hf I am so sorry for your lost. I have two brothers and my father dead. Right now I have a sister battling cancer, a 90 year mother who has had cancer, and a brother who had a triple bypass, diabetes, and not doing well. I am looking at three deaths that could happen anytime in the next year or two.
What a wonderful world it would be if people all over the world could sing Amazing Grace all together holding each other’s hands with the feelings as honest as children, unite their hearts as “ One” ❤️ and live in peace !!
That man's vocals gave me chills. I love that he sang part harmony instead of just the usual melody. His is the best rendition of this song that I have ever heard. And of course the Scottish in me loves the sound of bagpipes.
The most gentle loving smile comes over the Lord's face every time this mighty song of praise is played & sung so beautifully......Blessings to All who are moved by it!....Shalom.
@@omegaseamaster1550 Returning your wishes with 'Baruch Hashem in Yeshu ha Moshiach'. May He watch over you & your family in this 'time of Tribulation'..stay well & safe....old Messianic Jew.
This is such a moving and powerful rendition. considering the state of the world at this time, please just watch this video as many times as you can to see that there is brightness and hope!
It’s one thing to perform in song - it’s quite another to actually be praising God It’s one thing to recurve the clap of man by hand then it is to have the right hand of fellowship with the Creator
Man loves to put on a show Only ‘8’ were saved on the ark Noah built BY God- TO God - FOR God The rest were ALL unbelievers!!! Religious and self- righteous! God will have none of it!!
It is ridiculous to say Gods voice is like a human being whom he created & created the whole universe. I would image is voice is beyond our understanding & a trillion times better!!!
I'm many generations (a Californian) from my Scottish roots, but the pipes and the love of Scotland remain forever in the blood. I become totally emotional when I hear Amazing Grace being played by the pipes. May Scotland ever endure.
This song was performed at a friend’s 9 year old girl who died from leukemia. The singer was superb and so much feeling put into it that it put tears on many faces and part of the way through her own emotion broke her and she had to pause as she was also a family friend, but managed to complete it. Your performance brought tears to my eyes and the bagpipes elevated it to the best rendition that I have ever heard and brought back memories. Thank you.
This makes me cry I can hardly listen. It makes me feel the sadness of our country going down. Everything our ancestors fought for. But we do have still and always will have His amazing grace
Sweet Amy, Jesus will be sent back soon and His kingdom is not of this world. Do not worry. Remember Jesus warns us in Matthew Ch.24, these things must take place before I return. Jesus redeemed me in March 2013 only as a spiritual Jew. He gave me this vision in the fall: "The 666 man will come out of the church and announce he is a homosexual at a pageant." God and Jesus (see Daniel 11:37 in the Douay-Rheims Holy Bible; next closest KJV) Jesus' least, little disciple, Laurie
Check out Book of Acts Ch.2-19-21; Apocalypse/Book of Revelation Ch's 5 & 7; Corrie ten Boom's books and she is on TH-cam sermons, as well as Jesus' other true disciple and prophetess, Basilea Schlink. God bless you Amy.
I am Scottish Highlander living in SC USA. This is beautiful, my father played the pipes. Gives me bonnie feelings through ma whole body. I need to go home but I am the only one left in my family. Makes my heart beat with joy, bonnie feelings . Thank you this is so bonnie thank you sir
I always liked bagpipes and would like to learn sometime how to play them Another song I listened to when i was growing up was Simon and Garfunkel I am gonna be 500 miles
Holy sweet loving Lord Jesus....WOWWWWW, I adore bagpipes, but Amazing Grace with them........every hair I have is standing on end LOL And dang, that mans VOICE!!!!!! YES!!!!!
A piper played Amazing Grace at the funeral for my Mother and Father. I was doing fine until he started playing. RIP Mom & Dad!
What branch of military were they?
Mine too…at my mom’s funeral…she always loved that song! ❤
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God bless them, i lost mine too, a loss too hard to bear,
I've been to several funerals where Amazing Grace was played on bagpipes. As soon as the drone note hits, I'm a wreck. There's just something so soul-gripping about bagpipes, I can't describe it.
This is but a glimpse of what singing in Heaven will be like, hope to see you all there!
I’ll be there ❤️❤️
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Will we sing together I wonder
What a glorious day that will be!
I'm there :)
To think that this glorious song was written by a former slave trader, who had a revelation about what evils he had done, makes Amazing Grace all the more powerful.
True🙏
Words were by John Newton ex slave trader. Melody was from the chants from the slaves. 😪
Wow I didn’t know that…
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Watch the movie ‘Freedom’ with Cuba Gooding Jr. so good.
YES !!!
*A Truly Exceptional and Spectacular Rendition*
Beautiful ❤
Yes absolutely
@@PatsyMeleenyes it was amazing
2025. I love this. Listen a lot. You know it’s so beautiful. His voice the bag pipes and his voice is unreal in this song!!!
NOT a funeral song!!!
Thank you Jesus!!
A freedom song. A wedding song. A life after death song. A liberty song. A celebration song. A set the captives free song. A redemption song. A Faith song. A hope song. A LOVE song.
Thank you Jesus.
Amen🙏
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Praise Jesus ty your comment is uplifting for a worn person thankyou
ABSOLUTELY,
AMEN and AMEN!!!
My Memaw would agree wholeheartedly. She was a farmer’s wife, mother and grandmother. She would listen to this over and over. Her favorite hymn. She had a little turntable with a gospel vinyl record of this hymn. She loved God with her whole self. Thank you!
beautiful!. my mother Loved bagpipe music she was proud of her Scottish heritage. At the age of 80, on her way to have a dangerous major surgery, she off-handedly said." I want amazing grace played on bagpipes at my funeral. sadly she died 7 days after the surgery. It took us a few hours of phone time, but we finally found pipers in Mississippi to do this for us. they were very kind and happy to do it for us and they did a beautiful job. i was so happy and proud that we were able to fullfill her last request to me. they would not even let me pay them even thought they had a 6 hour drive. the kindest musicians I have ever met.
That's a beautiful story and example of the true nature of man when he yields to God's grace and glory. ❤️
That's really a lovely thing they did ❤
There is only one answer for that. The Scottish, and Irish are the only people on the earth who love the bag pipes. If they hate the bag pipes they are not Scottish or Irish.
shouldnt have done surgery at that stage of life bless her heart
@@jjhh8425I love the pipes. A few generations removed from Scots, Welsh & Irish blood but love the pipes.
As a Yorkshire lass, the bagpipes bring goose bumps up on my neck. Great music cuts across all colours, all creeds, all country’s, all people’s. Why can’t the world be one great song.
Thank you!
Yup x
Selfishness and Greed.❤️🇺🇸🙏🏾
I agree ❤️❤️
@@MegaBrenda1970 thank you!
I have NEVER HEARD ANYTHING that stirred my soul like bagpipes do!!
Hallelujah !!!
That was just beautiful!
Thank you 🙏
I agree
ABSOLUTELY!!🏴
I'm Scottish and the bagpipes always bring a lump to my throat. This rendition is so beautiful. What voice he has ❤
One of the only things that brings a tear. Bagpipes are so haunting. Just awesome.❤
I’ve been playing the bagpipes over 40 years and I’ve been fortunate enough to play in events just like this one. To be surrounded by the sheer volume of the sound is incredible. What a masterpiece, Bravo
Thank you🙏🏴
I'll see you there!
I was watching the solo bag-piper's breathing and I wonder how you don't faint ... it almost looked like he was hyperventilating! Anyway, clearly loads of skill involved, far more than I think people realise in playing the bagpipes and such a unique and haunting (in a good way) sound!
Been attempting to play the highland pipes for over 20 year and currently part of Harris County Honor Guard in Texas as a bagpiper. Unfortunately played AG at too many officers and friends services.
And that man’s beautiful strong voice! So rich and smooth…. A beautiful pairing to those pipes
That my friend, that's how a man, a real man sings!! Praise God 🙏
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Wie immer gerne gehört, weckt viele Erinnerungen an gemeinsame Schottlandurlaube
Agreed!
Yes. This is a song that needs to be sung this way. No showboating. No vocal theatrics. Beautiful.
U r truly blessed❤
I honestly believe that bagpipes are instruments sent from heaven
They are strangely attached to my tear ducts!🥹😢😭♥️
Ha. No. They’re instruments of war.
@@JGS123WRPTP If you'd been in Auschwitz when the breakout of peace & freedom was announced by the entrance into the camp of the Scottish Troops playing the bagpipes you might have a different opinion - they too, thought the sound (which they'd never heard before) was coming from heaven and the memory of that music still reduces them to tears!
The munharp or Jawharp is even more heavenly.It's one of the oldest instruments ever.
The English outlawed them as weapons of war 😂
I just buried “the love of my life” of 72 years with 65 of those years in marriage blissNovember 9, 2024 having this song beautifully played at his dedicatory gravesite services by a member of a local group he piped with!👩🎨👩❤️👨💓
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Love from Victoria 🇨🇦. With Jesus you’ll see them again.
@@carolynnmclaughlin5308 I am so sorry for your loss!
Feel warmly hugged from Berlin! ♥️🎄
Sorry for your loss. I can't imagine being with someone that long. You were blessed. You'll see him again. God bless.
I think there is no musical instrument which is able to more directly hit your heart, your soul, than a bagpipe.
Combined with the voice it makes you feel humble. And happy. It truly is amazing.
Bagpipes and violins have that affect...
As a Dutch girl ( frisian) i agree. Would like to hear this by the sea or endless fields
@@maryannturton9830 And hurdy-gurdies.
And flutes!!! With harps. But bagpipes … well played… are hair raising glorious
I totally agree with you...it is a glorious song done this way, uplifting and so moving. I was fortunate to see similar, with just a lone piper way up in the turrets in Edinburgh Castle in 1996. A warm balmy evening at the military tattoo held every August. My Dad was sitting next to me, and the trip was to honour my Mother who had died 9 months before. This was played at her funeral...and in Edinburgh my Dad and I just listened in awe with tears throughout. Every time I hear Amazing Grace I stop and remember. Even a lone piper rang throughout the whole castle :-)
Oh heaven above. This song, this rendition and those pipes. I’m a retired fireman (28 years) and a military brat. I have heard this played so many times by so many people. It’s a flashback to the memories of friends, my brothers in the FD and my parents and relatives who have left this earth. It brings tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat. Brilliantly performed. Thank you for sharing.
Aw Jeff. I hear you my friend.
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Wish you, your family and your friends only the best
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS
I too am an ex firefighter/paramedic, and a military brat. I have been to far too many funerals, and almost all are with full honors. This rendition still has me crying. I now work with a group that provides rehab services for Fire and Police at extended scenes and our bus is frequently requested to be in processions for LODD funerals. Far too many since COVID.
My dad was Army then Fire and Rescue Service. They had a Fire Service funeral for my dad and this was playrd by a lone piper.
4:59 This is one of the most powerful songs of saving grace there is! Thank you Jesus.
Everyone in the comments saying how proud they are to be Scottish or a piper, but this performance just reminds me how great God is, and it makes me happy all over again that He calls me one of His children.
BLESS YOU ! I FEEL THE SAME WAY !-------------------------------------Ernest E. Johnson
Amen!
Can you take your stories about your imaginary friend somewhere else please
@@darkjudge8786 man this is a song called Amazing Grace, literally written about God. This is literally THE place to talk about it.
@@darkjudge8786 We're sorry you'll never know the joy of Christ and all he brings. Keep worshiping your false deities. I'm sure at some point in time they'll offer great comfort....not.
I'm 72 and still living in Glasgow and this is one of the best renditions I've ever heard. I'm a Royal Engineer and we never cared about colour thank you brother for this.
Couldn’t agree more. Absolutely awesome 🤩
Apparently you do because you felt the need to mention it here for no reason.
Can see completely what you mean but you are not really understanding this !
@@channahnoyb4803 could he not also of said I am 72 never cared about music but this is a great song rendition, but I also understand your reply.
I love Glasgow Scotland ♥️
Listening to Amazing Grace played not only with bagpipes that could be a symbol of holiness but also with the voice of uplifting soul naturally convinces me of the existence of God ❤
Amen🙏
Thats just the power of a good piece of music. Don't get confused it's how religion sucks you in,
amzing voice...amazing bagpipes
@@utube1818I feel sorry for you 8(
@@Stevo-vx8go Why, you don't know anything about other than I believe religion sucks you in.
Already in tears xmas eve 2024
@@shoguntam thank you 🙏
This was my granny's favorite song , i still tear up to hear it. I am now saved , and know that i get to see her again on the other side ! Because of His amazing grace. God bless you all , and praise Jesus for saving a sinner like me !
@@jasonhopson7280 amen🙏
I've heard this song a thousand times and shed a hundred thousands tears. This vocalist's voice is meant for this type of song. If this doesn't bring you to tears, you are deaf or have a heart of stone.
Thank you 🙏
Gänsehaut pur
Mmy only child son is in heaven and this song breaks me everytime
My grandfather passed on his birthday march 30th 2018 one day before my birthday march 31 and when I watch the version with fallen soldiers and their families and dogs at their caskets crying it can bring me to tears. He passed as a beloved grandfather, husband, father, and friend. He served the Korean War, too. It was a massive loss for our family.
100%, couldn't agree more.
A true anthem for every ‘found’ soul and fallen hero. I’ve just shed 10lbs of tears and humbly remembered exactly what God’s Grace is to me.
Amen🙏
Amen❤️🙏🏻❤️
Yes and the lead singer Carl Ellis with the Healing Voice
Amen 🙏
THIS WAS “AMAZING”, IM NOW INTO MY 91ST YEAR & WHEN MY DAYS ARE DONE I SO WOULD WANT THIS PLAYED FOR ME AND MY FAMILY. I AM A FIRST GENERATION SCOT & SO PROUD TO HAVE A DUAL CITIZENSHIP. MY HEART SWELLS FOR THE SCOTS. DAVID DOWNIE III
God bless you! ❤️
Good for you. Do you actually know how Scots people in Scotland today feel?
@@alicemilne1444 I don’t know
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What a moving rendition of one of my favourite pieces.
I used to play the harmony for this.
For all of my life this has given goosebumps, Surly goodness and mercery has followed me all the days of my life. His glory is forever
What an incredible voice that man has! I came for the bagpipes but his voice blew me away.
Dan Vasc also does it great. He is Brazilian
Amen. That's at least 2 of us..
@@donaldcooper3404 Three 🙏
@Familymanof6 Same here…I’m 62 and this is the best I’ve ever heard also!!
Right???!!!
Sang this to my mom as she took her last breaths. One of the most beautiful hymns ever. And bagpipes take it to another level
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Bless you, your comment and the pipes playing as I read it made me burst out crying. 🙏🏽
@@hippyhop3913 👍👍
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MY GOD!!!! This man's voice is what imagine the angels to sound like when they sing!!!! 👑👑👑
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Agreed 👍
My thoughts EXACTLY! WOW what a voice!
Gob smacking!!
Sounds like a demon
When the world fades away, Your light remains. In the darkest night, Your love sustains me. You are the light that shines even when the shadows surround me, the hope that pierces through my deepest fears. Through every storm, You calm my soul, Your grace has made me whole. You lift my burdens and carry my cares, and I know that in every high and every low, Your love is my foundation. Your love endures, forever strong. You lift me up, where I belong. In every season, You are near, and Your faithful love casts out my fear. No matter the valleys or mountains I face, Your love stays constant, and I have seen Your goodness through every trial. When I fall, You lift me high. Your mercy flows like the endless sky, and You welcome me time and time again, not holding my failures against me, but covering me with grace. In my weakness, You are strong, reminding me that Your power is perfect in my frailty. Your hand has led me all along, and You are my refuge, my hiding place. No fear can stand, no doubt remains because Your love, O Lord, forever reigns. Forever I'll sing of Your saving grace, declaring Your goodness. Your love endures, forever and always, never fading, never failing. It is stronger than anything I could ever imagine, deeper than the ocean and more powerful than any force. You lift me from despair and place me in the safety of Your arms. You are always near, and Your love covers me completely. This love is my song, my anthem of praise. Forever and always, Your love endures. I lost my husband, moved in with my aunt when things went bad for us Kelvin i owe all my gratitude to you for changing my life from being hoemless to owning a home. help me thank him in prayers info@Kelvinjpro,c0m this are the exact lyrics she sang to my kids every nightmm
Wow! You are a beautiful poet! What you wrote above is marvelous!
As a Scottish/ Irish descendent, this was amazing. The gentleman's voice is so powerful, and the bagpipes are just amazing 👏. I'm so glad I stumbled on this. Thank you.
Thank you 🏴🙏
Simply Magnificent and played with bagpipes at my Mother's funeral and it raised the roof
Pity they didn't play this at King Charles Coronation as the endless singing became boring 🕯️🕯️🌹🌹🕯️🕯️
@@alicaking6186 Even better they should not have held a coronation.
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I’m hoping at this point that he doesn’t live as long as his parents did.
@@PartyOf8Please If you had a job that entails no physical work with enormous financial rewards, if you got out of bed and servants washed you then dressed you , if you were followed every where you went by sycophants who constantly told you how fantastic and well loved you are, you my friend would live till a ripe old age like these leeches.
OMG..... Just lost my wife and we played this song.... what a gift an a wonderful tribute to my dear lovely wife.... thank you so much......
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God bless and comfort you, dear man.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Same but my sister Angela
God forbid if I loose my wife ill be a wreck .thank you Anaxing grace 😢
When he sang that first note, I teared up…… now I’m just ugly crying. This song was sung at both my parents funerals and it gets me every single time. Thanks for sharing.
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It was my father's favorite hymn. Always makes me think of him.
Yep...
Beautiful, haunting performance.
@@maryfleshman6570 “haunting”, that was the word I was looking for, thanks Mary.
This was played at both my parent’s funerals but for my Dad we had a lone Irish piper - incredibly poignant.
Jan 2025 if this version doesn't warm your heart I don't know what would. Belated but sincere Happy New year to everyone that reads this.
this brought me to my knees crying my eyes out. As a soldier hearing this song, nothing compares to my heart being tortured by this. Such a beautiful version. Bloody well done
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Amen my brother! De Oppresso Liber!!! You are my brother!!!!
You're in my thoughts and prayers. Stay strong mighty soldier, you are never alone!
Thank you. 🙏
There is no More Stirring a Sound than Massed Pipes . And Mr Ellis , dear God , WHAT a VOICE .
My sister must have left her heart in Scotland. She absolutely LOVED this song. When cancer claimed another victim in November 2015, this was played at her funeral. She was 58 years old .200 bagpipes ,Kris!! Can you even IMAGINE it?? R I P, sis. We all miss you and love you every day.
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🙏🙏🙏❤️ Your comment brought tears to my eyes.
@Jan Johanson First of all, I would like to offer you my deepest condolences and condolences on the death of your sister R.I.P. God bless you and your family
Greetings from the Highlands of Scotland..... rest assured woman... we will care for her soul.
So sorry for your loss.
Listening from Trinidad June 2024, this song is timeless, 100 years from now it will still be famous❤❤
I sure hope so.
10000 years
listening from Canada with goose bumps
Among the robots, maybe
Ah, trini listening to this ???
I got chills when all 200 bagpipers started to play
We too!
Me too. Me too
To me this is the sound of heaven ❤️
Just a wonderful memory, I live in northwesternMaine and was kacking on a very remote lake surrounded by mountains early one morning, all of a sudden there was the sound of bagpipes! A man out on his dock playing Amazing Grace, I kyacked ove and he played it again just for me!!! I will never ever forget!!!!!
That would have been other worldly. How wonderful.
That's awesome! And bagpipes on a lake is especially amazing. ❤️
@@SuperCrazybumblebee absolutely agree. I hope I hear this if I make it to heaven.
Oh my how wonderful!!!! I am part of an Emmaus Community. ALWAYS on Saturday evenings at our candle light vigils…. If a piper in our community can play his pipes Amazing Grace just elevates it to Glory!
Wow
He sings God's glory with a voice God gave him. Amazing grace it is!
Amen🙏
Very well said
When I hear this it brings tears to my eyes, knowing the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ had mercy on me and called me to Salvation. Seeing lost folks singing this and blindly not knowing the great Truth's that are sounded in this song. The former slave trader who wrote this knew the Author of LIFE, the Savior and King. What grace, what mercy. Its is said that when he was old and near the end of his life his memory was failing, one thing he said, I am a great sinner and God is a great Savior, oh what truth. Praise the Lord Jesus for HIs love and grace to save all those who come to Him by Faith.
Amen! He saved me. I love my Jesus!
@@Whereevertheymaybe amen
Semper Fi
The WORD OF GOD is powerful & can save them all ... how wonderful to here this beloved ❤️ gospel song 🎵 . Thank YOU LORD JESUS. YOU ARE MORE THAN ABLE TO SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST!
In Royal Oak Michigan we had a lone piper in our neighborhood. Every night at dusk, he would play amazing grace on his pipes. I am of Scotish ancestry. But when you hear and feel the pipes we are ALL SCOTISH!! Each and everyone! GOD BLESS-BE SAFE.
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My neighbor in my family old house plays the pipes every night too. As we are an old protestant family in France, our burial place is in our property. My baby brother gets to lay in the most beautiful place in the world, listening every day to birds singing and at night to the sound of this man.
There is a guy who plays the bagpipes at dusk every evening in a gorgeous wooded area outside San Antonio, TX, known as Grey Forest. Tons of deer grazing in front yards, a nice running creek and narrow 2 lane roads...idyllic, especially for bagpipes!
Bless the Scots!
Hi from Berkley
This guys voice is haunting, just beautiful
Amazing Grace and Danny Boy are two songs that bring a timeless power with them, that will surely stretch across the ages deeply touching many, even those without known heritage connecting them to the “British Isles”. Mix in some bagpipes and their power gets amped up markedly!
My Mom’s father was born in Uig a tiny “barely a hamlet” on the magically mystical Isle of Skye in the Northern Hebrides at the edge of the North Sea and off the coast of Scotland. Skye was where the iconic song memorializes “Bonnie Prince Charlie” “the man born to be King” of Scotland who fled “over the sea to Skye”. Sir Sean Connery’s Mom was also born and raised there (Uig) hence a number of times over the years when some would “accuse me” of looking a bit like him I would observe the odds were good that our respective family’s sheep dogs very likely looked related!
My Dad was first born American and met and married my Mom in England while stationed there for the USAF. Each of my Dad’s two parents arrived through Ellis Island as toddlers with their Italian families settling in Carnegie, Pennsylvania named after the famous Scotsman and steel industrialist who donated virtually all his fortune building libraries all across the USA.
My last name is one of the symbols of Florence, Italy and as far as we know our forefathers helped manage the private army for the Medici. So I tell folks that, as far as we know, my forefathers were in charge of ensuring the Masters could sleep soundly so they could be inspired for the Renaissance; a seriously big job and “shoes” that surely feel impossible to try and fill. Oh the pressure! :)
My Dad was an electronic defense and intelligence industry pioneer with a presence that often intimidated, who spoke less than most but when he did all paid attention. His presence and look was a bit like a mix of famed actors Brian Dennehy and Gene Hackman. In short, he had a decidedly “buttoned down” presence which was surely also part of spending your entire career working with highly classified defense intelligence community programs, etc and especially through the Cold War. So when one day he told my youngest sister and our Mom on a trip to Britain they were on for my sister’s high school graduation present, that he had a recurring dream of his having been a Roman soldier when he first arrived to the Scottish Highlands, we kept that quiet within the family. But I admit having many times since then, over four decades ago now, imagined a Love Story stretching across the ages with my Mom and Dad being the featured couple; a powerfully striking photograph of my Mom’s grandmother when her grandmother was in her late teens that looks the exact image of my Mom at that age, surely helped inspire that fanciful idea all those decades ago.
In sum, both my two sisters and myself along with both of my parents (Mom is still here and we just lost my “middle sister” Debbie this last April) felt a powerful draw to the Scottish Highlands that words alone are ill-equipped to properly describe. On one of my visits at 19 years old and which was absolutely a trip of a lifetime filled with memories I will cherish until the day I leave this life, two words came to me that felt closest at describing for me, the Scottish Highlands; a “haunting beauty”. To fully appreciate those two words describing the Scottish Highlands one should have some understanding and appreciation of the history.
There are many reasons I remind folks now and again that when the Romans conquered much of the then-known world the only place they built a wall from sea-to-sea across the mid section of an entire country (based on today’s map, effectively) to keep “those crazy fighting you-know-Whats” on the other side, was in Britain.
Finally and for what it is worth, I have gathered numerous largely anecdotal stories over the years with quite a few being moments I describe as “even atheists might reconsider” that help make a respectably strong case for my theory that genome research will one day find a gene that should be named “The Protector Gene”; some of us have “an extra one or few”, I am quite sure. One manifestation of that with me is what I describe as my “overdeveloped sense of Big Brother” as in the kind we’d all surely like to have to help watch over us, be there when we need him, etc. Which helps explain - a little - some number of situations including some that cannot be fully explained without prompting that “even atheists might reconsider” I noted previously, where I was at the exact right place at the exact right time a number of times, to be further blessed in helping save some lives and to be clear no I am not a First Responder, etc. One of those involved being blessed with stopping a suicide try of a young teenage girl that I’ve only been able to share one time I think, without getting a bit choked up; I really need to dig up the Sheriff and Park Ranger reports on that, for posterity. Every time I’ve shared that story - thus far, at least - ALL those listening understand why I observe, “even atheists might reconsider”.
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Truth. Serious goosebumps, would have been ethereal to have been there.
@@stevemarzocco4983 Thank you for that history. ❤️
This song always makes me cry happy tears . This gentleman's voice just gave me shivers! Absolutely amazing!
Imagine the world that could be if we gave as much attention to artistic masterpieces as we do to stories of human depravity and stupidity and manipulative narratives.
Thank you for uploading.
Thank you🙏🙏
All glory to G-D!!
Imagine the world that could be, if we listened to Jesus! Your words are correct 👍
@@jelleboesveld ♥️
1.3 million views. We are on the way…
One bagpipe is stirring. Two hundred will break your heart and mend it again.
Oh my God how utterly beautiful. When my first husband wrote out his will whilst serving in the forces this hymn complete with bagpipes was his wish should anything happen during tours of NI. When he eventually passed away in 2001 this was played just as he wished for as he was carried into church. The chap singing at the beginning is like the icing on the cake. Very beautiful. My late husband would have loved it. Thank you for sharing it. Means so much. Xxx
Your first sentence describes you as well... Inside and out.
@@bobsmoot2392 Thankyou kind sir xx
Thank you, Pam. By the way... I have played Amazing Grace many times on the pipes, that my father gave me, when I was 8. And I have played that song at funerals, as well.
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I am so glad your husband survived his tours of NI. As a NI citizen I really appreciate your husband and his colleagues for keeping us safe from terrorism. God bless you.
The singer has his own awesome set of pipes. Throw in the bagpipes and what a sound. Wonderfully done.
Thank you!
I agree , that singer was amazing ! Amazing Grace played by bagpipes is awesome , too !
His voice: rich, vibrant.. perfectly balanced w/those pipes
That was a terrible singer . Elevated like that and his own spotlight ! It should have been about the bagpipes . Not the token wrong performer .
@@blinkyblonk4912 oh I'm sorry-- in my opinion I preferred his solo voice...I could have heard fewer bagpipes. But, I realize the way the sound of the bagpipes strike my ears probably differs from most. Re: tokenism-- perhaps the soloist was, & perhaps not. Nonetheless he was qualified or you can bet he wouldn't have been invited, but invited he was.
I spent 30 years as a Texas Peace Officer and 15 years as a team leader on the Honor Guard. I could march a thousand miles to the sound of the pipes.
Thank you for your service, God bless
And historically the Scots did . Great warriors and a beautiful country. Everyone should visit there if they can !!
Thank you for your service.
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Now you get to sit back, live off the taxpayers for the rest of your life and reminisce over how many American life’s you destroyed while you were a union socialist thug.
When I feel hopeless in life on listening to his singing Amazing Grace, I feel like that his real voice does become a comforting as well as encouraging voice from above the heaven and heals my soul. For those of you reading my comment now I’m happy to pray that the upcoming New Year 2025 will be a gold year full of God’s blessings for you around the world 🙏
Amen amen received 💅
when I hear that I have to cry right now we have a terrible flood catastrophe here in Germany with a lot of dead people and a lot of missing people - it's really bad here right now.....brillant voice and bagpipes...👍
Prayers for Germany. Peace
Prayers 🙏
Sending love and prayers from Australia 😘
@@caravandonna708 thank you 🙂
In our thoughts and prayers, rest assured x
As an airline pilot, I once had a layover in Los Angeles. I'd flown all night, now I'm in a hotel sleeping all day. About noon, I was awakened by scores of pipes and drums in the hotel courtyard outside my hotel window. That was the best concerts I've ever attended.
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Thank you for this nice story
The best part if it was it being free I bet
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If? I believe it's of.
There are only 2 instruments that can make me cry the violin and the bag pipe. That was beautiful to the max thank u.
Thank you 🏴🙏
I hundred percent agree with you. I was in absolute tears while listening to this rendition. The violin also brings me to tears. AMEN 🙏
3 Instrument: a voice
I would only add bugles playing Taps.
Me too Michael!!
While listening to Amazing Grace, I'm being led to pray for the sake of people somewhere in the world who feel like they are in the darkness of life, and that a ray of light against the darkness will shine into their hearts 🙏
How anybody couldn't love the bagpipes is beyond me
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absolutely 👌, beyond me too. The vibrations are in tune with the universe.
@@matztertaler2777 because bagpipes originated in India thousands of years ago, they were considered "heathen".
Man that guy has an awesome voice!
I just have to listen to this beautiful song most evenings, the bagpipes and this amazing voice just so very special ❤
You can say that again.
His voice sounds a bit like Paul Robson
This is the only way to listen to Amazing Grace ❤️🏴
was my dads request for his funeral.was played 40 years ago.sat crying my eyes out still.
I know what you mean, I had a piper play for my mother on her funeral day
same here but with my dad 2 wks ago- heartwarming
@@aliceannkelly8211 sorry for your loss
My Scot-Irish mom's name was Grace and this was played at her funeral. Brought to tears every time I hear it.
When words fail, music speaks 🙏
I have Scottish heritage and every time I hear the Blessed pipes I am humbled to my core ❤️✝️❤️
I’m supsupping right now !
In Brazil we sing Auld Lang Syne at funerals and people from other countries find it strange.
We have other lyrics about Silence, which means we should be silent in respect and that voice has been silenced until we meet again in Heaven.
And you have a nice Scots irish name dear lady!
We had this at my Mums funeral ....a lone piper walked through the forest to her gravesite...still brings tears to my eyes. Love from Australia.
This a Scottish tradition, to have the lone piper play till the last person leaves the cemetery plot & area. My SIL had the same for my older brother just a few years ago. Warmed my soul & still I cried...
@@nancy-katharynmcgraw2669 Mum was a Burnett...beautiful tradition xx
That scene you painted is.. amazing. Thank you
Ich hatte das während meiner Bundeswehr-Zeit bei einer Beerdigung eines Kameraden! 150 Bagpips am offenen Grab! Das vergisst man nie wieder im Leben!
@@Superbaer567 I agree....a memory that stays with you forever :)
I once was lost but now I am glad that I found my way to the one and only God who made the heavens and earth. This is so beautiful I still feel the same way I felt when I first heard it. Thanks for bringing it back.
Amen 🙏
Wow, just wow!!! Unbelievably beautiful. Like time is standing still. Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
How do you know this..
Amen.
@@briancritchley5295 it is written.
@@briancritchley5295 it's not a question of knowing as it is believing.
@@franciscositja4079 by whom?
There are not enough words to say how amazingly, incredibly, moving this performance is.
Thank you!
I agree with you
There are definitely enough words . It was forgettable d utterly boring .
Ach wenn ich doch jedes Mal ,wenn ich dieses Lied höre einen Daumen hoch geben könnte Sooo schön ist das und der Sänger .... einfach klasse !!!
Danke schön 🙏
I completely agree 👍 all nations need to come to an understanding and develop peace between one another.
This song could definitely do it.. ❤️ love each other and give grace my friend
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Any average of any nation wants peace and to be left alone. It's the greedy heartless leaders that cry for war. You the common person are sacrifice on the alter of war for their sin!
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His singing Amazing Grace gently leads me to the gratitude for being alive now. I feel like I might be kept alive loved by God. Great thanks be to God for this Blessing 🙏
Amen🙏
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I have never heard of Carl Ellis but rest assured I am a huge fan now !!
Thnx!
New fan
Same here and what a deep voice
Same here.
You have low standards .
Without a doubt this stirs my Scottish ancestral blood. More than that however, it stirs the child of God in me, one of the unworthy redeemed in Christ, and the blood of the only race that matters on this Earth: the HUMAN race. Wonderful. Thoroughly wonderful. Thank you Jell Boesveld for posting this!
What a great comment, Bret. Jesus is Lord.
I remember picking up an old music book when quite young (5-7) with the basics in music, before I knew I couldn’t sing a lick. In my mind, ears, I did it perfectly, I found out years later. And I still remember myself singing it to perfection. Although I never will. I’m 63 now. Beautiful song
I’ve done a little checking into my Family Tree, and it appears I have Scotch, Irish Descent in my Background too. I intend to check further for more Proof. If it’s True, I Would LOVE to see the Area it’s said that my Ancestry was at in that area. 👍🏻🇺🇸👍🏻☠️🇺🇸
The pipes might stir your ancestral blood but amazing grace is English written by a Englishman.
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Still a Very Beautiful and Soul Moving song to hear and Especially when played on Bagpipes. I Love the Sound of it. Being a Veteran, I’d love to have this played Lastly at my Funeral.🇺🇸☠️🇺🇸🧝🏻🏴🎶👍🏻
Glorious. As a descendant of the Celts my soul rises at this.
Thanks 🏴
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it was written by a Englishman.
@@patrickkelly7085The English have up moments too, afterall, before the Romans they were Celts as well.
Listenting to his singing Amazing Grace not only with soul-uplifting but also with soul -encouraging voice feels like suggesting that when we have reached a dead end in life and think we can’t go on any more, that is just the best time to be able to get closest to God.
Thank you so much for the compliments , but without the Berlin Tatoo... Wow!! After the Car Crash I stopped...But..I was so honoured to sing with the AMAZING musicians. Be blessed...I LOVE LOVE you all ...Carl Ellis x
Most beautiful version I have ever heard.
Is greatest "AMAZING GRACE" ever. Thank you ❤ .
Omg how did I miss this ❤ you are wonderful !
you got a great voice you"re up there with Elvis & Jim Nabors.
best version of this song ever.
hope you're recovering from your accident.
This is the only version that I listen to - the voice is spot on and the bagpipes amplify the talent that Carl has!
Reminds me of the wonderful Paul Robeson ... as for the bagpipes, well, always makes my day ! Edinburgh-born but raised mostly in England due to RAF parents... Remembering in our prayers flood victims in Germany ...x
My Father likes Paul Robeson.
I was thinking the same, that he sounded just like Paul Robeson. Then I saw you comment, I couldn’t agree more. Absolutely wonderful.
You sure are right the first note that he sang gave me chills.
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It takes a powerful voice to sing with 200 bagpipes; and this man made it seem easy. Amazing Grace.
Not many people could have pulled that off.
Not wanting to detract from the vocalist's superb voice but bear in mind he was mic'd up and the pipers weren't! For many years many of the bands taking part in 'The Worlds' always rehearsed right outside our office in Glasgow - what an amazing sound!
That is for sure ssooo beautiful omg
What a wonderful blessing from God it is for us to feel that we are kept alive and loved by God ❤
Carl Ellis has such a beautiful voice
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Amazing Grace was written by a ship"s Captain who once delivered slaves to the American colonies! He wrote the song to repent for his sins! Very moving!
Wrote the song when he realized that HE was in chains, and that he was saved by Grace, not by works.
He first wrote it for a typical English melidy, but changed it to a slave hymn of sorrow on the pentatonic scale.
Many more verses were added on through the years, and then Chris Tomlin gave the song a soaring, wonderful refrain,"My Chains Are Gone" about 12 years ago. Im going to shut up, now.
Not exactly true. The author of the poem worked on a British slave ship he wasn’t a captain. He had an issue with the crew and was sold/given to a black/African/Arab port owner where he was treated as a slave. Accounts differ on how he escaped his enslavement and repatriated to England. He re-converted to his mothers puritan religion and 17 years later wrote the poem about his conversion back to his religion. Nearly a decade after the poem was written it was linked to the tune and used by abolitionists. Long after that event he also issued one and only one statement against slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe manufactured the tale of his being a captain and an abolitionist. “Roots” capitalized on the lie.
A English ships captain.
@@patrickkelly7085 Not true. The British registry of ship’s captains, both Royal Navy and commercial fleet, does not list him as a captain. You are a victim of the popular mythology.
@@canisscot7763 "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written in 1772 by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725-1807). It is an immensely popular hymn, particularly in the United States, where it is used for both religious and secular purposes.
Newton wrote the words from personal experience. He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by others' reactions to what they took as his recalcitrant insubordination.
He was pressed (conscripted) into service in the Royal Navy. After leaving the service, he became involved in the Atlantic slave trade. In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland, so severely that he called out to God for mercy. This moment marked his spiritual conversion but he continued slave trading until 1754 or 1755, when he ended his seafaring altogether. He began studying Christian theology and later became an abolitionist.
Ordained in the Church of England in 1764, Newton became curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire, where he began to write hymns with poet William Cowper. "Amazing Grace" was written to illustrate a sermon on New Year's Day of 1773. It is unknown if there was any music accompanying the verses; it may have been chanted by the congregation. It debuted in print in 1779 in Newton and Cowper's Olney Hymns but settled into relative obscurity in England. In the United States, "Amazing Grace" became a popular song used by Baptist and Methodist preachers as part of their evangelizing, especially in the South, during the Second Great Awakening of the early 19th century. It has been associated with more than 20 melodies. In 1835, American composer William Walker set it to the tune known as "New Britain" in a shape note format. This is the version most frequently sung today.
With the message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of sins committed and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God, "Amazing Grace" is one of the most recognisable songs in the English-speaking world. Author Gilbert Chase writes that it is "without a doubt the most famous of all the folk hymns".[1] Jonathan Aitken, a Newton biographer, estimates that the song is performed about 10 million times annually.[2]
It has had particular influence in folk music, and has become an emblematic black spiritual. Its universal message has been a significant factor in its crossover into secular music. "Amazing Grace" became newly popular during a revival of folk music in the US during the 1960s, and it has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th century.
Damn, why can’t more singers sing in a low voice like this? This is what it’s supposed to sound like when a grown man sings. As for the bagpipes, the pipes and the pipe organ are gods instruments. Nothing finer than those 2. Thanks for sharing this video.
So agree! About both.
Low testosterone from poor diets.
Grown men aren’t allowed to be real men. Our western societies have been feminized. Don’t doubt it. This isn’t a joke.
When automakers started putting radios in cars, popular music shifted to high tenor that sounded good on the tiny speakers, from the baritones (think of people like Bing Crosby) who sounded so good on the larger speakers that home radios had.
@@montyharder3663 maybe so, to some degree, but the days of the early automotive radios are a couple generations back in history. There’s more to it than that.
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Oh Wow. I am 1st generation Australian with a rich Scottish history. The bagpipes are in my blood and when i hear them play i think of my Dad who was a very proud scotsman right to the end. This was beautiful.
Thank you, great to hear that🏴
My grandfather was from Scotland. My older brother surprised me after our wedding with his pipes, it melted my heart ❤️
The one song I can never sing or listen to without crying. It touches my soul. I love the addition of the bagpipes. Simply beautiful.
Thank you 🙏
I agree with you on this song. I am crying as we speak.
I am the same as you on that one as I have had experience with this song when I lost my sister Angela
@@EDDY-to2hf I am so sorry for your lost. I have two brothers and my father dead. Right now I have a sister battling cancer, a 90 year mother who has had cancer, and a brother who had a triple bypass, diabetes, and not doing well. I am looking at three deaths that could happen anytime in the next year or two.
What a wonderful world it would be if people all over the world could sing Amazing Grace all together holding each other’s hands with the feelings as honest as children, unite their hearts as “ One” ❤️ and live in peace !!
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Someday we just might 🙏
@@janicevresics2767 from your lips, to God's ears.
That man's vocals gave me chills. I love that he sang part harmony instead of just the usual melody. His is the best rendition of this song that I have ever heard. And of course the Scottish in me loves the sound of bagpipes.
That's what I loved best, when Carl Lewis sang the harmony...the man has such a gift...as for the pipes? Wonderful ..
Loved the harmony bit, wasn't expecting it but it made for great listening, beautiful
The bagpipes are so amazing.
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Absolutely…NAILED the vocals!
Any one in 2024….?
Yup still here
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The sound of those pipes brings me to epic tears. That to me is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
Thank you🙏
That and the shofar.
The bagpipes are a very soulful instruments and amazing Grace is a beautiful piece of music. Put them together and your in heaven.😺😺😺😺😺
And the last post , always instant tears 🙏🏽
Thank you from the great state of Alabama!
The most gentle loving smile comes over the Lord's face every time this mighty song of praise is played & sung so beautifully......Blessings to All who are moved by it!....Shalom.
@@blackwatch1062 No I did mean Christ. I'm sure HE would love it! Quite remarkable! Touches your soul.....Shalom...old Messianic & Scottish Jew
@@annbauer6586 Yes I believe we are in the Time of the End -Tribulation -stay safe -Blessings in Yeshu haMoshiach-Shalom...old Messianic Jew.
Shalom 🙏🏴
Shalom
@@omegaseamaster1550 Returning your wishes with 'Baruch Hashem in Yeshu ha Moshiach'. May He watch over you & your family in this 'time of Tribulation'..stay well & safe....old Messianic Jew.
Sir your voice is amazing, one of my Moms favorite hymns, she love the Lord, and I know she is in heaven. She lived till she was 92 GOD BLESS
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This is such a moving and powerful rendition. considering the state of the world at this time, please just watch this video as many times as you can to see that there is brightness and hope!
Couldn't agree more!
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I don't really care for the bagpipes normally except the skill it takes to play them but the magnitude of this piece is overwhelmingly emotional
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@@jelleboesveld absolutely breathtaking.
As a Scot, this was probably the best rendition I've heard,what a beautiful voice he has
Singer has voice of God! This music is the sound of Heaven! If you are not chilled by this, then you are a rock. Magical
Amen 🙏
It’s one thing to perform in song - it’s quite another to actually be praising God
It’s one thing to recurve the clap of man by hand then it is to have the right hand of fellowship with the Creator
Performance is NOT praising !!!
It’s for the other man and self adoration!!!
Man loves to put on a show
Only ‘8’ were saved on the ark Noah built BY God- TO God - FOR God
The rest were ALL unbelievers!!!
Religious and self- righteous!
God will have none of it!!
It is ridiculous to say Gods voice is like a human being whom he created & created the whole universe. I would image is voice is beyond our understanding & a trillion times better!!!
I'm many generations (a Californian) from my Scottish roots, but the pipes and the love of Scotland remain forever in the blood. I become totally emotional when I hear Amazing Grace being played by the pipes. May Scotland ever endure.
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Ken, how could you leave Scotland?
A great song written by a English sea captain
Know that from this part of Scotland you will always be considered as a Scot 🏴
I’m of Welsh Irish heritage and the pipes have me in tears every time I hear them. They are an amazing instrument that reaches right into your heart.
Glory be to God
When I listen to Amazing Grace I’m reminded that I'm kept alive and loved by God 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
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No.... Its even MORE beautiful.. GOD is being kept alive by YOU....
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This song was performed at a friend’s 9 year old girl who died from leukemia. The singer was superb and so much feeling put into it that it put tears on many faces and part of the way through her own emotion broke her and she had to pause as she was also a family friend, but managed to complete it. Your performance brought tears to my eyes and the bagpipes elevated it to the best rendition that I have ever heard and brought back memories. Thank you.
È importante condividere anche i ricordi tristi 😭😭
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This man’s voice and performance takes me to the courts of heaven
Amen🙏
Amen, hallelujah
This makes me cry I can hardly listen. It makes me feel the sadness of our country going down. Everything our ancestors fought for. But we do have still and always will have His amazing grace
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Stand tall and proud for your children. We did not start it but we did end it.
Sweet Amy, Jesus will be sent back soon and His kingdom is not of this world. Do not worry. Remember Jesus warns us in Matthew Ch.24, these things must take place before I return. Jesus redeemed me in March 2013 only as a spiritual Jew. He gave me this vision in the fall: "The 666 man will come out of the church and announce he is a homosexual at a pageant." God and Jesus (see Daniel 11:37 in the Douay-Rheims Holy Bible; next closest KJV) Jesus' least, little disciple, Laurie
Check out Book of Acts Ch.2-19-21; Apocalypse/Book of Revelation Ch's 5 & 7; Corrie ten Boom's books and she is on TH-cam sermons, as well as Jesus' other true disciple and prophetess, Basilea Schlink. God bless you Amy.
Listening to his singing Amazing Grace is just like being on an invisible bridge for us to communicate with God beyond over there.
Nothing as souls chilling as hearing the bagpipe. Rings to my ancestral soul memories!!!!!!!!!!!
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I feel the same and I am not Irish....it is just so beautiful and heartwarming.
Inspiring Tone .Beck again to listen to this beautiful music so very special and that voice is just truly amazing brilliant.
forget all other instruments upon which to play "Amazing Grace," for it is a song meant to be played on the pipes.
true!
That is one of the most beautiful things I've EVER seen
Not only did the Scott’s invent the bagpipes, they wrote both songs you can play on them! JK.
@@MCowie sorry, they didn't.
Amen
I am Scottish Highlander living in SC USA. This is beautiful, my father played the pipes. Gives me bonnie feelings through ma whole body. I need to go home but I am the only one left in my family. Makes my heart beat with joy, bonnie feelings . Thank you this is so bonnie thank you sir
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I always liked bagpipes and would like to learn sometime how to play them
Another song I listened to when i was growing up was Simon and Garfunkel I am gonna be 500 miles
Holy sweet loving Lord Jesus....WOWWWWW, I adore bagpipes, but Amazing Grace with them........every hair I have is standing on end LOL And dang, that mans VOICE!!!!!! YES!!!!!
The minute he opened his mouth, I got goosebumps all over. Thank you Sir.
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