Voices Together ‎#163

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:
  Romans 3:21-26
  ;
  1 Corinthians 15:9-11
  ;
  Ephesians 2:1-10
• Topic: Conversion and New Life; Heaven; Trials; Death and Eternal Life; Funeral / Memorial Service; God: Faithfulness of; Grace; Hope; Salvation
• 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