The first time I heard "Amazing Grace" sung to that tune, I was at the amazing German bakery up the street, and it took me a good ten or so seconds to process what I was hearing.

And then, in a haze of astonishment at the sheer _coolness_ of it, I couldn't get it out of my head for the rest of the day. It's always a fantastic experience to hear, or see, or read something that takes two great things you'd never thought of combining before and puts them together to create a third wonderful thing.

In a very similar fashion, I would never have imagined putting strawberry and peppercorn together, particularly in a tea (to which pepper seems rather antithetical). Huh.

JD

I'd never think of singing Amazing Grace to that tune, but I just tried and it was fun. You must've had a blast!

Pie ("sour" or "Montmorency") cherries? If so, I am envious. :-( I can't even find them frozen in my part of the country (Central Texas). Canned just isn't adequate for pie.

I wonder how "House of the Rising Sun" sung to "Amazing Grace" would do? :-)

It's all about the meter; think of the meter of Greensleeves, for instance, or the fact that because Emily Dickinson writes mostly in ballad meter, you can sing most of her poems to any number of songs--most notably, Yellow Rose of Texas.

Strawberry peppercorn tea? That sounds interesting (in a good way).

It works for "O Little Town of Bethlehem" too. Well enough that it was quite some time before I could disentangle them in my mind.

Had a dorm mate show me that one, back in the day. Kind of pricks up your ears.

Then someone else sang a portion of Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" to the tune of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog".