Amazing Grace — chord chart in any key
John Newton, 1779. Tune: NEW BRITAIN. Public domain, free to print.
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Verse 1
AGmazing G7grace! How Csweet the Gsound
That Gsaved a Emwretch like Dme!
I Gonce was G7lost, but Cnow am Gfound;
Was Emblind, but Gnow DI Gsee.
Verse 2
’Twas Ggrace that G7taught my Cheart to Gfear,
And Ggrace my Emfears reDlieved;
How Gprecious G7did that Cgrace apGpear
The Emhour I Gfirst DbeGlieved.
Verse 3
Through Gmany G7dangers, Ctoils and Gsnares,
I Ghave alEmready Dcome;
’Tis Ggrace hath G7brought me Csafe thus Gfar,
And Emgrace will Glead Dme Ghome.
Verse 4
The GLord has G7promised Cgood to Gme,
His GWord my Emhope seDcures;
He Gwill my G7Shield and CPortion Gbe,
As Emlong as Glife DenGdures.
Verse 5
When Gwe’ve been G7there ten Cthousand Gyears,
Bright Gshining Emas the Dsun,
We’ve Gno less G7days to Csing God’s Gpraise
Than Emwhen we’d Gfirst DbeGgun.
John Newton, a former slave-ship captain turned Anglican curate, published these words in Olney Hymns in 1779. William Walker's Southern Harmony set them to the American tune NEW BRITAIN in 1835, and the meter is common meter, 8.6.8.6.