Long ton, also known as the imperial ton or weight ton, is the name for the unit called the ton in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements standardised in the thirteenth century that is used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries alongside the French metrication invented in 1799.
How Great Thou Art  is a Christian hymn based on a Swedish traditional melody and a poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg (1859â1940) in Sweden in 1885.
John Newton writes the following about himself. And learn them he did, and not just from wicked boys. This is the John Newton who worked aboard a ârespectableâ slave ship and then became the captain of his own. But this is also the John Newton who later wrote âAmazing Grace,â probably the most famous of all folk hymns. That song has been sung in countless arrangements and to different tunes. I love the version by The Five Blind Boys of Alabama sung to the music of âThe House of the Rising Sunâ.