Rock of Ages
One of the best known hymns of all time, Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, was composed on a playing card. The reverend Augustus Montague Toplady was taking a walk in Somerset, England when a violent storm came up. The Reverent took shelter in the cleft of a large rock.
The words suddenly came to him and he was so anxious to get them down he used the only piece of paper he had , a playing card.
Source: Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: p. 562
Home Sweet Home
This extremely popular victorian ballad was written by , American, John Howard Payne. Ironically Payne did not have a home.
In the 1820's he composed " Home Sweet Home" to the music of Henry Rowley Bishop. In 1851, 31 years later he wrote to a friend, "It is strange that it should have been my lot to cause so many to boast of the delights of home when I never had a home of my own and never expect to."
Sources: Strange Stories, Amazing Facts: p. 562
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