Aha Moment: Willie Nelson on ‘Amazing Grace’

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Willie Nelson performs in 2015.

Legendary singer-songwriter Willie Nelson told Michael May that when he was a child, he heard a heavenly tune that got under his skin forever: “Amazing Grace.”

Nelson is now on tour.

(Originally aired January 25, 2005)

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