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Text: | Amazing Grace! |
Author: | John Newton |
Tune: | NEW BRITAIN |
Arranger: | Edwin O. Excell |
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 Thro' many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
4 The Lord has promised good to me:
His Word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures.
5 And when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease,
I shall possess within the veil
A life of joy and peace.
6 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've first begun.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Amazing grace! How sweet the sound |
Title: | Amazing Grace! |
Author: | John Newton (1779) |
Meter: | CM |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1997 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Grace; Singing |
Source: | Collection of Sacred Ballads, 1790 (stanza 6) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | NEW BRITAIN |
Arranger: | Edwin O. Excell (1910) |
Meter: | CM |
Key: | G Major |
Source: | Shaw's & Spilman's Columbian Harmony, 1829 |