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Amazing Grace
Key: G72 BPMGuitar & Piano chords
Amazing Grace Lyrics. One of the best-loved hymns in the English language, written around 1772 by John Newton, an English clergyman and former sea captain, after a profound turning point in his own life. Its plain, universal words about being lost and found have carried it far beyond church walls into folk, gospel and lullaby traditions everywhere. Here you will find the lyrics, meaning, and chords for guitar and piano.
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Verse 1
Amazing grace, how Csweet the Gsound
That saved a wretch like Dme
I once was lost, Cbut now Gam found
Was Emblind, but Dnow I Gsee
Verse 2
‘Twas grace that taught Cmy heart Gto fear
And grace my fears reDlieved
How precious did that Cgrace apGpear
The Emhour I Dfirst beGlieved
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What “Amazing Grace” Means
John Newton spent years working in the Atlantic slave trade before a violent storm at sea in 1748 shook him into a slow religious conversion; he later became an Anglican clergyman and, in his later years, a vocal supporter of abolition. He published “Amazing Grace” in the 1779 hymnal Olney Hymns, paired long after with the tune known as New Britain. Its message of an undeserved second chance has made it one of the most widely sung and recorded hymns in the world; sung slow and unhurried, it works just as well as a gentle bedtime song as it does as a hymn.
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- Chords: written by us for guitar and piano.
- Translation: our own meaning-for-meaning translation, written for understanding. The sung words stay in the original language.
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