Amazing Grace
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Organ and orchestra: an introduction, then each of the 4 verses. Tap a verse’s number to start there.
- Amazing grace! how sweet the soundThat saved a wretch like me!I once was lost, but now am found,Was blind, but now I see.
- 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,And grace my fears relieved;How precious did that grace appearThe hour I first believed!
- Through many dangers, toils and snares,I have already come;'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,And grace will lead me home.
- When we've been there ten thousand years,Bright shining as the sun,We've no less days to sing God's praiseThan when we first begun.
About this hymn
- Words
- John Newton, 1779. Newton’s first three stanzas and the anonymous “When we’ve been there ten thousand years” (in American hymnals by the 1840s), as Edwin O. Excell printed them with this tune. As printed in World Renowned Hymns (Excell, 1909), no. 237.
- Tune
- NEW BRITAIN, American folk melody, 1829.
- Harmony
- Edwin O. Excell, in Make His Praise Glorious, 1900. Score from the Open Hymnal Project.
- Recordings
- Arranged and recorded by Fish the Right, from the harmony above: the melody note for note and every chord the hymnal’s own. Played on the Salamander Grand Piano V3 by Alexander Holm (CC BY 3.0), with organ, strings, brass and timpani from VSCO 2 Community Edition by Versilian Studios (the organ sampled by Simon Dalzell); drums from Virtuosity Drums and bass from Black And Blue Basses by Versilian Studios and Karoryfer Samples; pads from GeneralUser GS by S. Christian Collins; made with abcMIDI, sfizz, FluidSynth and FFmpeg.
- Rights
- Words 1779, tune 1829, setting 1900: all published before 1931, so public domain in the United States. Checked: words (hymnary.org), tune (hymnary.org), harmony (openhymnal.org).