Country music star Dolly Parton appears in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, on October 28, 2019. | The Christian Post/Leah Klett
Tennessee lawmakers push to make Dolly Parton’s rendition of John Newton’s famed hymn Amazing Grace an official state song got one step closer to being a reality Monday when the bill was passed by the House.
In February, Rep. Mike Sparks, R-Smynra, and Sen. Raumesh Akbari, D-Memphis, introduced HB 0938/SB 1416, which would make the hymn, written in the 18th century by Newton, a slave trader-turned-abolitionist, and sung by Parton, an official state song.
On Monday, the bill passed in the House 91-1, Fox Nashville reports.
Dolly Parton’s version of the hymn “Amazing Grace,” written in the 18th century by slave trader-turned-abolitionist John Newton, may soon become an official state song in Tennessee.
Dolly Parton’s version of the hymn “Amazing Grace,” written in the 18th century by slave trader-turned-abolitionist John Newton, may soon become an official state hymn of Tennessee.
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