'Amazing Grace' words and music

As the MendOurMum charity film moves towards a crescendo on Saturday with, hopefully, hundreds singing on the church mound at 12.30pm, you may be interested in downloading the words and backing track for practice purposes.

• Words PDF
• Backing track MP3

For those with musical ability we are told that the tune begins in Eb and then changes key to F. The backing track includes a metronome and runs at 110BPM tempo. Obviously, this means nothing to some of us, but we assume the many musical folk in the village will understand.

Approaching a thousand local people will have been involved in this amazing community effort by Saturday when the figures should swell well into four figures.

The Lord Combermere will serve free chips and baps after the Saturday recording.

There's then more filming on Sunday before a frenzied week of editing and DVD production by the Festival team and others gets underway.

The DVD will then be available from 10th December as well as going out on YouTube and social media and, we hope, going viral.

The team behind the film would like to take this opportunity to thank all residents for being so willing to help with this project. It's heartening to see a community pulling together to help someone in need.

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