Amazing Grace

Words: Elhanan Winchester, John Newton · Music: Columbian Harmony, 1829, Edwin O. Excell · 1773

Verse 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.

Verse 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!

Verse 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.

Verse 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.

Verse 5
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow;
the sun forbear to shine;
but God, who called me here below,
will be forever mine.

Verse 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'd first begun.

Words: Sts. 1–5, John Newton, 1773; st. 6, Elhanan Winchester, 1784, alt. | Music: Columbian Harmony, 1829; arr. Edwin O. Excell, 1909, alt.

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