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.