Text:Amazing Grace!
Author (stanzas 1-3):John Newton
Tune:NEW BRITAIN (AMAZING GRACE)
Adapter and Harmonizer:Edwin O. Excell

163. Amazing Grace!

1 Amazing grace! how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found;
was blind, but now I see.

2 ‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
and grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed.

3 Through many dangers, toils, and snares
I have already come.
‘Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.

4 When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
bright shining as the sun,
we’ve no less days to sing God’s praise
than when we’d first begun.

Text Information
First Line: Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
Title: Amazing Grace!
Author (stanzas 1-3): John Newton
Meter: CM
Publication Date: 2020
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Conversion and New Life; Heaven; Trials (6 more...)
Source: stanzas 1–3 John Newton (England), Olney Hymns, 1779; stanza 4 A Collection of Sacred Ballads (USA), 1790, alt.
Tune Information
Name: NEW BRITAIN (AMAZING GRACE)
Adapter and Harmonizer: Edwin O. Excell (1900)
Meter: CM
Key: G Major
Source: American traditional (USA), Columbian Harmony, 1829



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